With the long history, mandarin Chinese contains a variety of language units. These language units play their own important parts in the now mandarin language, and idioms are one of them...
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On one hand, they count on the violent power of imperialism. ... Although these people are not Europeans, they still like to bully people by flaunting their powerful connections while telling lies and making misrepresentations. Are there more or fewer of these colonial lackeys in Hong Kong after the Return?
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www.zonaeuropa.com/20070630_1.htm
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For example, Weihuzuochang, play the jackal to the tiger, means the people who was eaten by tigers will become a ghost to help the tiger to eat others; Hujiahuwei, bully people by flaunting one's powerful connections, tells the story of a clever fox threaten the tiger by using the tiger's power.
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Then one by one Dr Wang lightly unwrapped, presented, ... Francisca did not like the way he bullied farmers and common people. A Chinese idiom about a fox would suitably describe his manner: “a fox borrowing the tiger’s terror,” which roughly means to bully people by flaunting one’s powerful connections.
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Dream of the Red Chamber (2.3) - Considered by many critics one of the world's finest novels, this vernacular masterpiece by Cao Xueqin (ca. 1715-1763) was the first great prose tragedy in Chinese literature. The novel recounts a tragic love story in a powerful elite family closely resembling the author's own.
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One Class, Three Modes: Engage High School Students in Active Communication ... "the fox borrows the tiger's terror (by walking with the tiger)" - to bully others by flaunting one's powerful connections...
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On the one hand, ... People who are incompetent, lack the necessary experience and skills or the necessary commitment to service delivery, are often appointed to “affirmative action” posts in the civil service because they happen to have family connections or are close to politicians or senior officials.
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Endorsing a simple but continuously growing lunar settlement program that could eventually lead to human settlements on Mars and the rest of the solar system would be a powerful symbolic change that would garner strong support from the American people: ... This is why no one is really obviously going at it. NASA in particular...
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www.spacepolitics.com/2009/11/02/a-thanksgiving-decisio...
www.spacepolitics.com/2009/11/02/a-thanksgiving-decision-on-nasas-future/
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Learn English. 1 FREE English lesson added every single day. Grammar, vocabulary, listening & reading ... All the workers, apart from one, decided not to work until they got a pay rise. They all thought he was a ___. ... A fox which has a tiger standing behind--a person bullying people by flaunting his powerful connections.
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www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/ten-animal-idiom...
www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/ten-animal-idioms
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