During the Three Kingdoms period, celebrities Hua Xin and Wang Lang used to take a boat together to avoid thieves. In spite of Hua Xin's opposition, Wang Lang took one more person to escape. Later, the thief tried to catch up with him, and Wang Lang wanted to dump the man. Unexpectedly, Hua Xin objected: "Since you have taken care of yourself, why not rush to abandon evil and do good?" (Shi Shuo Xin Yu De) Abandoning people in danger means abandoning people in danger in English.
The idiom "leave something in trouble" comes from the card game in Kriebitzsch. This card game is played by two or four people and scored with wooden nails and perforated boards. If one side wins 6 1 point and the other side doesn't win 3 1 point, the one with low score is at an irreversible disadvantage, that is, left out. Now people are used to interpreting the meaning of this idiom as "abandoning (someone) in danger", for example:
I'm not the kind of person to abandon my friends when they are in trouble. I will lend him money.
I won't watch my friend get into trouble without helping. I will lend him money. )
2. An experience worse than death
In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, the world was in chaos. Shi Ji's daughter, whose official name is You, went back to her hometown with her husband and met a robber on the way. The robbers killed her husband, and then they planned to rape her. The stonemason cursed, saying, "When I say that the officials and daughters of China and North Korea, do I have the right to insult thieves? ..... kill me as soon as possible. " The robber then killed her (The Legend of the Brave Woman in Ningshi). In the past, China, which paid attention to the nine virtues of a strong woman, had countless women like Shi who would rather die than be humiliated.
In ancient Britain, there was also the idea that female physical death was a trivial matter and shame was a major event. Raped women will not only get no sympathy, but also be looked down upon, even rejected by relatives and friends, and have no life. So being raped is called a fate worse than death. Now that chastity is not worth much, the idiom "worse than death" has naturally become a joke. People often use it to refer to some unpleasant things, such as:
Marrying her would be a worse fate than death!
Marrying her is probably worse than death! )。
Canoe by yourself
There is a story in the twenty-seventh chapter of Yue Biography: Jin Wushu met Yue Jiajun in Aihuashan, defeated the Yellow River, and boarded the ship of Ruanliang, a Jianghu hero, to save his life. Ruan Liang deliberately tackled him and plopped into the water. Wu Shu "doesn't understand water and can't paddle", and a person on the boat panicked and shouted for help. If he had known what westerners call independence earlier, he might have been so embarrassed.
Paddle your own canoe literally means "paddle your own canoe". The word Canoe comes from the Haitian word canoa, which originally meant that local aborigines split a big tree into two hollowed-out boats. It is said that Columbus brought the word back to Europe from the New World. This kind of canoe can only accommodate one person, and everyone has to row by himself, so "canoeing alone" was later extended to mean "relying on oneself" and "self-reliance". Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, likes to use this idiom to encourage others and make it spread more widely, for example:
His parents can no longer take care of him; He must learn to be independent.
His parents can no longer take care of him; He must work hard by himself.