The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Idiom in Chinese language often refers to a category of fixed phrase which has been through long-term use and high refinement. This clip image001 thumb The Pot Calling the Kettle Blacklanguage formation is a concise unit larger than word, yet has grammatical functions equivalent to the word, often full of profound ideological content, brief, hsk test and easy to use or remember. Chinese Idioms have fixed structures and are always said as a whole and not allowed to take apart. Though the majority of the Chinese idioms have four characters, there are also some other forms like three characters and as well more than four words idioms. For example, wsbxbb thumb The Pot Calling the Kettle Black (w? sh b xio b?i b), is a six-character idiom being widely used which has the interpretation and story as followed.
[Interpretation]
One fled 50 steps at the battlefield mocked another who with 100 steps. Similar to the Western The Pot Calling the Kettle Black, it is an analogy that one has the same shortcomings or makes the same mistakes as others, only with less extent, but has no self-knowledge to laugh at other people.
[Source]
"Mencius Lianghui Wang Shang"
[Story]
Lianghui Wang asked Mencius: "Ive exerted every effort for the country! When the inner rivers harvest was not good, I moved the victims to the east, and moved food to the inner river; when the east of the river suffered famine, Ive done similarly the same things for mandarin teacher disaster relief. Look at the neighbor countries, none of their kings like me to do so. However, seldom people did leave the neighboring countries for us, neither our population has significantly increased. Why? "
Mencius replied: "King likes to fight which Ill take for example. At the battlefield, hearing the drum sounds, the soldiers of both sides will fight knife on knife, gun for gun. The defeated party, dragging swords and guns, quickly flee for their lives. At this time if some people flees a hundred paces, and someone flees fifty. May I ask your majesty whether the fifty-pace-escaper can laugh at the one-hundred-paced one of the timid afraid of death? "
"Of course not, said Lianghui Wang. He just did not escape a hundred paces, but it makes no difference with a flight!"
Mencius said: "Since the king understood this truth, study mandarin shanghai how can you expect the people in your country to be more than the neighbors?"
Idiom in Chinese language often refers to a category of fixed phrase which has been through long-term use and high refinement. This clip image001 thumb The Pot Calling the Kettle Blacklanguage formation is a concise unit larger than word, yet has grammatical functions equivalent to the word, often full of profound ideological content, brief, hsk test and easy to use or remember. Chinese Idioms have fixed structures and are always said as a whole and not allowed to take apart. Though the majority of the Chinese idioms have four characters, there are also some other forms like three characters and as well more than four words idioms. For example, wsbxbb thumb The Pot Calling the Kettle Black (w? sh b xio b?i b), is a six-character idiom being widely used which has the interpretation and story as followed.
[Interpretation]
One fled 50 steps at the battlefield mocked another who with 100 steps. Similar to the Western The Pot Calling the Kettle Black, it is an analogy that one has the same shortcomings or makes the same mistakes as others, only with less extent, but has no self-knowledge to laugh at other people.
[Source]
"Mencius Lianghui Wang Shang"
[Story]
Lianghui Wang asked Mencius: "Ive exerted every effort for the country! When the inner rivers harvest was not good, I moved the victims to the east, and moved food to the inner river; when the east of the river suffered famine, Ive done similarly the same things for mandarin teacher disaster relief. Look at the neighbor countries, none of their kings like me to do so. However, seldom people did leave the neighboring countries for us, neither our population has significantly increased. Why? "
Mencius replied: "King likes to fight which Ill take for example. At the battlefield, hearing the drum sounds, the soldiers of both sides will fight knife on knife, gun for gun. The defeated party, dragging swords and guns, quickly flee for their lives. At this time if some people flees a hundred paces, and someone flees fifty. May I ask your majesty whether the fifty-pace-escaper can laugh at the one-hundred-paced one of the timid afraid of death? "
"Of course not, said Lianghui Wang. He just did not escape a hundred paces, but it makes no difference with a flight!"
Mencius said: "Since the king understood this truth, study mandarin shanghai how can you expect the people in your country to be more than the neighbors?"
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