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• 1.False Alarm 错误的警告
• Years ago while attending a dinner party hosted by some friends of mine the hostess served a meal with this delicious mushroom sauce. After the meal t...
• 2.苛政猛于虎
• In ancient times, at the foot of Mount Tai surrounded by mountains, one often heard of tales of tigers devouring people One day, Confucius and his dis...
• 3.磋来之食
• One year, there was a great famine in the State of Qi. A rich man named Qian Ao set up a stall by the roadside with lots of food, waiting for hungry p...
• 4.仕数不遇
• There was a scholar in the Zhou Dynasty who had tried several times in his life to seek for an official post, but failed again and again till his temp...
• 5.夜郎自大
• Once, the Han Dynasty dispatched an emissary to the State of Dian (now Yunnan Province) and the State of Yelang (now Guizhou Province). The King of Di...
• 6.谁坐上座
• A long time ago, the kitchen chimney of a family was built so straight that when cooking meals, the flames came right out, while there was a big heap ...
• 7.一孔之见
• Once upon a time, there was a bird-catcher who liked to cast a net to catch birds. One day, seeing that birds would fly past, he immediately cast his ...
• 8.东食西宿
• In ancient times, a girl in the State of Qi had reached marriageable age. Two families delivered betrothal gifts to propose marriage. In the family on...
• 9.姑息养鼠
• A man in Yongzhou was afraid that doing things on certain days would bring misfortune. As he was born in the year of zi, and the rat was considered th...
• 10.粤犬吠雪
• In the past, I heard people say: Formerly, it was often cloudy and drizzly for days on end in the south of the juncture of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Hubei,...