cat
Introduction to cats:
Cat (English name cat), also known as cat, domestic cat, wild cat, belongs to the cat family. House cats and wild cats are relatively common pets in households around the world. The ancestors of domestic cats are speculated to be desert cats that originated in ancient Egypt, and Persian cats in Persia, which have been domesticated by humans for 3,500 years (but have not been completely domesticated like dogs). An average cat has a round head, short face, five fingers on the forelimbs, and four toes on the hind limbs. The toes have sharp and curved claws that can be retracted. Nocturnal. They hunt other animals in ambush, and most of them can climb trees.
Cats have fat pads on the bottom of their toes to prevent them from making noise when walking and to prevent rats from escaping when hunting. The claws are retracted when walking to prevent them from being blunted, and they are extended when hunting mice and climbing rocks.
English proverbs describing cats:
A cat has nine lives.
A cat has nine lives.
A cat in gloves catches no mice. (=Muffled cats catch no mice.)
[Proverb] A cat in gloves catches no mice; if the limbs are not diligent, nothing can be accomplished; fear He who has dirty fingers can do nothing.
A cat may look at a king.
[Proverb]A cat may look at a king (meaning that little people should also have some rights)
agree like cats and dogs
[口]Like cats and dogs, they don’t get along, they don’t get along at all
All cats are gray in the dark. (=At night all cats are grey; when candles are out, all cats are gray.)
[Proverb] Cats are all gray in the dark; it is difficult to tell the difference between ugly and beautiful in the dark
as weak as a cat (=as weak as water)
very weak
copy cat
blind imitator
enough to make a cat [horse] laugh
extremely Ridiculous; making people laugh out loud