[Reserved] “Bible” of English idioms
January 7th, 2012 Adam Apple strong> Adam apple strong>
You all are the salt of the earth.Our hope is placed on you Cast pearls before swine strong> howling at the moon; wasted kindness strong>
Bone of The Bone and Flesh of the Flesh literally “bone of bone, flesh of flesh” from the
Eg: Science deals with things in a practical way.Science means honest, solid knowledge, allowing not an iota of falsehood, and it involves herculean efforts and gruelling toil.
this phrase from the “New Testament. Matthew “Chapter 7:” Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you “. As to cast pearls efore swine, The exact analogy, but in future generations continue to become an international reference in the phrase, commonly used to indicate to offer sth valuable or beautiful to those who can appreciate it; to give what is precious to those who are unable to understand its value and other means, jibe with the color. According to their literal meaning, this idiom in Chinese idiom “Pearl of the vote according to” similar, but different meaning, basically do not correspond; by a figurative sense, it is the equivalent of “casting pearls before swine,” “said the donkey by the” “good intentions dog eat “,” dog bites bad one, does not know the good people “and so on.
eg: This inexplicable incident seemed, like the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letter of my judgement …
eye for eye, tooth for tooth: an eye for eye, tooth for a tooth; eye for an eye person in his body
The Salt of the Earth in this idiom, literally meaning “salt of the earth”
spoil the Egyptians: to seize the property of the Egyptians, to snatch the enemy property, looting
As a result, people use to sell one birthright for a mess of pottage phrase to describe to exchange something of lasting value for something that is of value for a short time only; to suffer a big loss for a little gain. This idiom often abbreviated as for a mess of pottage in the form. Sometimes also be used to sell one birthrights.
“New Testament. Matthew “account:” And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats “
salt is an essential condiment in the diet, the body If the lack of salt, health will be affected, all the diseases. Salt also sterilization, detoxification, anti-inflammatory, decontamination and other functions, it is both “the king of a hundred drugs”, is the mother of industry, indeed cherished things. Summarized in a number of national customs, salt was used as the noble King off gift.
I won waste good advice on John any more because he never listens to it.I won cast pearls before swine.
Mind the reputation of your school as you care for the apple of your eye . The writing / Finger on the Wall strong> ominous; doom strong>
There is not an iota of truth in the story. The Salt of the Earth strong> salt of the earth; national essence; outstanding elements strong>
As a result, this legacy in the language idiom, escaped that not a bit of; not one jot or little; not at all so mean. iota in here, the equivalent of Chinese “little man” means.
crossing the Red Sea: Red Sea to safety, and change the natural moat to thoroughfare
make bricks without straw: to do no grass brick, the bricks without straw, inconsiderate
Adam apple: Adam apple, but
Adam also talk about the proper time to eat, to God, so Adam quickly swallow, but, stuck in the throat between the.
swine is an old word, written word, term for the pigs, but swine single-complex counterparts, the sentence is plural.
According to the “Old Testament. Daniel “(Daniel) Chapter 5 describes: once ancient Babylon (Babylonian) King Belshazzar (Belshazar) hosted a vertical drinking is the palace, when, suddenly, I do not know where there is a mysterious finger, when the by the king face, and the lampstand in the royal palace on the relative expanse of the West wrote four strange words: MENE (Mi Nepalese), MENE (Mi Nepalese), TEKEL (put off Le), UPHARSING (Joel Ufa new). State Wangzhang Huang stricken, terrified, who did not understand the words written on the wall what is meant. Later to be called a prisoner of the Jewish prophet Daniel, they would understand the meaning of these words is apocalyptic. He said: “Mi Nepalese God you have to count on this as the country annual end; shekel is that you mention is called the balance you owe in the show; Ufa Joel is your country a new division, owned and Mary generations and Persians. “Sure enough, that night Belshazzar was killed, and 62-year-old Darius the Medes National People Congress replaced.
Later, Rebekah really gave birth to twin brother, my brother called Esau, his brother called James. Two brothers grew up, Esau and love, often out hunting; Jacob is often at home help housework. One day, Esau hunting back, hungry and thirsty, he saw his brother Jacob in the boil bean soup, said to him: “I am hungry, I drink bean soup it!” Jacob said: “You drink Tom, the eldest son of the right to put you sold me. “Esau said:” You have to starve to death, to which the eldest son of the right to what use is it? “So, he according to the requirements of Jacob, on the day of oath, the the right to sell the eldest son of Jacob, in exchange for bread and bean soup. After Esau satiate, got up and left. Where he thought, to the bowl of bean soup, and his descendants would be doomed to serve the descendants of Jacob.
Eden: means “Paradise”, “paradise”
John emplyer had less and less work for him; John could read the writing on the wall.
eg: Our army is bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of the people.
Moses: a national hero, between the envoy of God, from the water
lamb of Passover: Passover Lamb, that “from the cost of catastrophe.” , “to avoid the scourge of mark”
Eve: the first woman
As the “Bible” of the impact, sheep and goat in a very different image of English, the former good metaphor, which is bad analogy. English idioms relating to goat, mostly derogatory. Such as: to play the goat = play the fool (a bloody fool); to get sb goat (trigger anger); and so on. “Bible,” said the shepherd to distinguish between sheep and goats, “the right to the sheep, goats on the left.” It is said that goats often sneak into the flock, the lure sheep, so shepherd must separate them to avoid confusion.
“Old Testament Genesis,” Chapter 25 describes such a story legend: the Jewish patriarch Isaac wife Rebekah during pregnancy, she felt the two intra-abdominal fetal kicking each other, they ask the Lord , the Lord said to her: “The two in your abdomen, your body out from the two communities, this nation will be stronger than that family, will serve small to be big.”
Adam and Eve: human ancestor , couples
flesh-pots of Egypt: Egypt flesh pots, means “happy life”, “extravagant lifestyle”
She read them Shakespeare, but it was casting pearls before swine
Moses rod: the rod of Moses, to defeat the enemy magic, magical things
Bone of The Bone and Flesh of the Flesh commonly used to describe the relationship between blood relatives on or ideological solidarity, that is as close as flesh and blood ; to be inseperately linked to each other and other means.
eg: It was argued that joining the Common Market … would be giving away her national rights and advantages for a mess of pottage.
One who teaches morality and practises immorality is a wolf in lamb skine < strong> separate the sheep from the goats strong> difference between good and bad, to distinguish between good and bad strong>
eloquence of Aaron: Aaron eloquence, articulate, eloquent, articulate
The phrase to the word “Old Testament. Deuteronomy “(Deuteronomy) Chapter 32,” the Lord met him in the wilderness wild, roaring beast of the land, to surround him, and watch over him, protect him as to protect the eyes of Tong Ren. “In other parts of the Bible has something similar. English, “Old Testament. Psalm “(Psalm) Chapter 17 has this sentence:” Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of the wings “
worship the golden calf: calf worships money, worship idols, worship different God, worship of money Bone of The Bone and Flesh of the Flesh strong>
Have faith in me, please.I can separate the sheep from the goats
land flowing milk and honey: flow milk and honey, rich of the country, land of plenty
The writing on the wall is clear: if man behaves like an animal and allow hs population to increase while each nation steadily increases he coplexity and range of its environment, nature will take her course and the law of the Jungle will prevail.
idiom the apple of one eye is fixed structure, shall not be written as the apple of the eye of … in the form; In the match, it is often associated with the verb be, keep , care for, etc. used in conjunction. Significance of their imagination, which in Chinese idiom “apple” are quite similar, but the metaphor of the object than the Chinese, “Zhang Zhu,” a broader, because of “Zhangzhu” usually refers to the beloved daughter, rather than using other occasions.
The Apple of Ones Eye of the literal meaning is “someone in the eyes of Apple”, where, apple refers to the pupil (pupil, eyes), probably because of the circle as the apple of the eyes it is. Pupil is the most important part of the eye, loss of the pupil, the light can not enter the hole through the center of the iris and the eye becomes blind. Therefore, the phrase used to describe the same eyes as the love and care of a loved one or the most precious things, that means a cherished person or object; sth extrmely precious to one; sb dearly loved and so meaning
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When Bill team lost four games in a row, he saw the handwriting on the wall. Not an iota of strong> not a little bit, did not strong> < br /> Jesus in the Galilee area of ??preaching missionary, and received a lot of followers. One day, he said to his disciples: “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves”
Adam profession: refers to the garden (or farm)
The Salt of the Earth comes from the word “Bible”, according to “the New Testament. Matthew “(Matthew) 5 long record: Jesus said to his disciples:” Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? “Here, salt is used escape that flavor; of the earth that is of the world. This is Jesus on the mountain Chuixun “blessing”, the gospel at the end, he likened to his disciples, “salt of the earth”, which is high praise. Been quoted in this sentence later became a story of the idiom, the escape of the most valuable members of sociey; the finest type of humanity; a person or a group of people having the best character meaning
It < Genesis> Chapter 2 describes: the occasion was in the beginning, chaos is not open, the Lord God, an epoch-making first day the Lord created the day and night; the next day to create the sky and clouds; the third day to create little hills. plain rivers, and fertile land and aromatic fruit; the fourth day He created the sun, the moon and stars to determine the age of seasons. month and day; the fifth day he created a variety of shapes and sizes of fish and birds; the sixth day he created a variety of land animals, and then the image of his own land a man on the dust create, name also when (Adam), this is the mythical ancestor of the human Later, the Lord see charge When living alone without partner to help him, so take advantage of the sleeping Adam, when removed from him a rib causing a woman called Eve (Eve), received in front of him, Adam said: “This is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh “(This is bone of my bone, flesh of flesh). Where the two married
iota Greek alphabet 9th letter “I” of the name. not an iota of from the “New Testament. Matthew “Chapter 5:” the law point of a painting can not pass away, everything is accomplished. “Because iota is the smallest of the Greek alphabet letters, which sometimes can be written as a dash placed above the other letters ; missed this little bit of pronunciation There is little affected by the rules can not only reduce it. “Gospel,” said Law, refers to the “law of Moses”, which means that no person is allowed to just pass away this commandment even the smallest one, or even one letter, nor a small change or a short horizontal omission.
eg: Mrs.Martin trusted the lawyer until she realized that he was a wolf in sheep clothing
There are many, many people who are willing to prostitute their intelligence for a mess of pottage. The Apple of Ones Eye strong>
Sell One Birthright for a Mess of Pottages literal translation is: “To a bowl of bean soup and sold the birthright.”
serpent: snakes, means “devil”, “symbol of evil”
eg: Little Mary is the apple of her father eye
this phrase literally means “wall of text (or finger), “the actual meaning of a sign or warning of impending disaster (imminent specter); a sign that sth bad will happen; a feeling that ones number is up; and so on. Meaning of the language shell how to link with it? Or from the “Bible”
… and when I let the upper floor to Cap n Cuttle, oh i do a thankless thing, and cast pearls before swine a wolf in sheep clothing strong> < strong> approved a wolf in sheep clothing; appearance of good-hearted evil person strong>
As a result, people use to separate the sheep from the goats in this idiom, to describe to separate the good from the wicked; to divide good or useful people from bad or useless
eg: We l go through the list of members, and separate the sheep from the goats
To Cast pearls before swine meaning “pearl head in a pig before.”
“Old Testament Genesis Chapter 3,” talked about the origins of mankind, God created the legend of Adam and Eve, man, in the East of Eden (Eden) to establish a garden for them to live. Garden of Eden in the eyes grow pleasing variety of trees, a variety of fruits grow on trees. God told Adam said: you are free to eat all the fruit garden, but can not eat the fruit of the tree of good and evil tree, eat surely die. This “forbidden fruit” is the apple. Later, the spouse of Adam and Eve temptation to listen to the snake, regardless of the oracle, to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of good and evil, it is also her husband to eat this fruit. Adam live in fear because, when the rush to eat, there is a roar of flesh stuck in, flattening out, leaving a lump, called “Adam Apple” They eat the fruit to think clearly, can get good and evil, beauty and ugliness. But because they disobeyed God caution was expelled from the Garden of Eden. Since then, Adam never left in front of the neck, “Adam apple”, as eating the forbidden fruit of “evidence.” God also punish Adam, “will be perspiring to make ends meet”
In this house of his there was writing on every wall.His business-like temperament protested against a mysterious warning that she was not made for him.
Adam apple can be more clearly seen on men than women throats. Sell One Birthright for a Mess of Pottages strong> runs the risk; see Lee abandoned justice strong>
turn “wall of text (or fingers),” says the specter of death in his death the country. There are several English idiom expression: the writing / handwriting on the wall or a finger on the wall, usually be, like other verbs used in conjunction; sometimes written as see / read the writing on he wall of the sentence, that warning, such as: Don you see the writing on the wall, sometimes may be omitted on the wall, just say Don you see the writing? Meaning is the same.
eg: Your Adam apple isn apparent.
Adam: The first man Adam was
ancestor of mankind in the Bible, while Apple history than the history of mankind has a long. Ancient civilizations in the world of folk tales and mythology, apples are so popular as a fruit. English have a proverb: An apple a day keeps the doctor away. However, according to the Bible story, said, Apple has brought trouble to mankind, man Adam apple is caused by eating apples.
eg: He does a lot of good jobs and is considered to be the salt of the world.