What Do You Know About "Yang" Allusions In The Year Of The Sheep?

In the eyes of the ancients in ancient China, the sheep were beautiful, docile, honest, shy, shy, lambs kneeling, and mutton tasty, so there were characters such as "beauty", "good", "righteousness", "fresh" and "shame" in oracle bone inscriptions.

In the Bible, the sheep symbolize Jesus because people believe that sheep possess many noble qualities of human beings: kindhearted, gentle, courteous, pure and impartial, few provocative but tolerant in nature, so Christian praise has almost reached the peak.

There are quite a few allusions about sheep in English.

1. Separate the sheep from the goats

Distinguish sheep from goats to distinguish good people from bad guys (Divide things in two groups, those things that have value and, have)

Idioms come from "

The twenty-fifth chapter.

The chapter says that when the Savior sits on his throne, "all the people will gather in front of him, and he will separate them like sheep and goats in shepherds."

(And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall, and, and the goats (villains) are placed on the left side.

The one on the right will be blessed by the blessing of the father, and the left will suffer from purgatory.

Idioms distinguish good from evil, and distinguish good from useless.

That is why the sheep and the goats is good and bad, sheep and goats good people and evil people.

2. I had rather be a tick in a sheep than such than

I would rather be a louse on sheep than a mindless warrior.

Shakespeare's tragedies "Troilo J and correda" in third acts, third soldiers Thersites.

In the Troy war, Ajax was a foolhardy general. He promised to fight Troy alone with Troy, and he fell into the trap of the other party.

Thersites said this when he saw Achilles talking about Ajax's recklessness.

People can also satirize those reckless people who have no brains or opinions.

3. Return to one's sheep/muttons

Back to the subject

There are two sources of this idiom: one is that it is a plation of French idyllic Poetry: the passionate shepherd men and women are in love on the ranch, and they will eventually return to reality and return to their flock.

This idiom means "returning to practical problems and getting to the point".

Another way of saying: "Let us come back to our sheep." (go back to talk about our sheep.

It is modeled on French "Revenons NOS moutons", that is, Return to one's muttons.

This is a sentence written by an anonymous French writer in the farce of bartland lawyer.

In French, the "sheep" is called Mouton, and the "sheep" in English is called sheep.

When French entered English, Mouton evolved into mutton.

In English, mutton only refers to "mutton" instead of "sheep", because the French people in the United Kingdom were aristocrats and had enough money to eat "mutton mutton", while the Anglo Saxon poor shepherd called the sheep "sheep".

Over time, the English term "sheep" is called sheep, and "mutton" is called mutton.

4. A lost sheep

Astray

It is from the eighteenth chapter of the Bible, Matthew.

When Jesus preached, he used the story of a lost lamb to describe God saving the guilty.

If one person has one hundred sheep, one will go astray.

Will he not leave these ninety-nine and go to the mountain to find the sheep who have lost their way? If I find them, I will tell you that he is glad that this sheep is glad than the ninety-nine who have not lost their way. "(if a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them," one "," Yan "," the "," the "," the "," the "," the "," the "," the people ".

5. One might as well be hanged for a sheep as for as

Stealing a big sheep and stealing a lamb will be hanged - not two.

Idioms are first seen in the English idiom (John Proverbs, 1678) of British natural scientist Johnny (1627 Ray 1705).

This statement reflects such a state of mind: since committing serious crimes and minor crimes punishments are the same, simply do two things without doing anything and act foolhardy, and committing crimes are serious.

6. Set the wolf to keep the sheep

Please wolf to see sheep and bring wolves into the room.

"The Shepherd and the Wolf".

The shepherd found a wolf cub and kept it with his dog.

Later, when the wolf grew up, the wild nature gradually revealed itself. Once, when the wolf came to pick up the sheep, it also caught up with one.

When a wolf does not pull sheep, it is secretly eating sheep.

Idioms describe a very stupid thing, delegate things to unreliable people who will only bring harm to themselves.

Similarly, there are Let the fox guard the henhouse (let the fox guard the henhouse) in the English language.

7. A wolf in sheep's clothing

Wolf in sheep's clothing

The story of the same name in the Aesop's fables is recorded.

A wolf dressed in sheep's skin and mixed into sheep, trying to steal the lamb, the result was herdsmen.

In addition, the Bible also says, "you have to guard against false prophets, and they come to you, dressed in sheep's clothing, but inside are cruel wolves". (Bewar of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, the seventh).

Idioms describe the bad guys who cover up their ugly intentions and hypocritical cruelty under the good face.

8. A scapegoat

Scapegoat

The ancient Jews had a so-called sin offering, that is to say, they had to offer living sheep, and put their hands on the sheep's head to acknowledge all the sins of the Israelites, and put the sin on the head of the sheep, so that the sheep could take all their sins and bring them to the uninhabited land.

(see the sixteenth chapter of the Bible, Leviticus) sheep are not guilty, but to bear sin for human beings. Therefore, later generations refer to scapegoats as those who take the blame for others' faults.