animal : comparative philology > mole crickets and ants, nobodies
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No. 1
  Mole crickets and ants, to represent the tiny creatures, analogy is weak or low status people.
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lóu yǐ
  Mole crickets and ants. Analogy forces were small or low status
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No. 3
  Husband to swallow a fish boat big men, and swing and water loss, compared with ants by the system. - "Loving"
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No. 4
  Ants of the force
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No. 5
  Also as "ants." 1. Mole crickets and ants. Refers to tiny creatures. "Zhuangzi Lie Yukou": "kite in the water for the birds, the next for the ants eat." "Huainanzi world training": "a thousand miles of dike, in order to thread the hole ant leakage." Thorough Song, "popular report * Yao dry Father Essay ":" Cardiff ants to the status of micro, micro and have known. "Ming Liang Chen-yu," Washing Gauze siege ":" big fish water loss, Fanzao ants of bullying. "Xu Shan" augmented network Spiders ":" I do not care how people criticized me, no matter how he puzzled me, and I just to own a well-deserved, doing justice to the end of the stars of heaven and the underground will be the end of ants. "one said, ants or ant. Refer to the element Li Ye "Ancient Tou Jing Zhai," Volume II.
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No. 6
  Strength of weak or low status of metaphor, insignificant person. "Biography of the Later Han Ban on": "solid (Ban) Credit goes to the world was born in the Ching Ming, Yu-end of the audio-visual, personal to ants, theft view state government." "History of Southern Dynasties Zu Guo Chuan deep upright officials": " So afraid to tripod pan District will hear who is to Sajik weight and ants life light. "Ming Liu Ji" Prelude to Water "word:" ants do with the princes, how to use a name in Zhu Bo, the suspect left with the descendants . "Qing Zeng" and Shao Jun epitaph ":" pity the southeast of the large and brutal, Ren Sheng and ants and with donations. "
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No. 7
  Mole crickets and ants, to represent the tiny creatures, analogy is weak or low status people.
  Fu Zhou fish swallowing big men, and finishes and water loss, compared with ants by the system. - "Hanshiwaizhuan"
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No. 8
  Mole crickets and ants, to represent the tiny creatures, analogy is weak or low status people.
  Fu Zhou fish swallowing big men, and finishes and water loss, compared with ants by the system. - "Hanshiwaizhuan"
  "Han Fei Yu old": "A little knowledge of an ant hole collapse, sudden gap hundred feet of room to burn the smoke." Metaphor small inadvertently lead to disaster.
  Ancient China has such a story:
  There was a village near the Yellow River bank, in order to prevent flooding, the farmers built a towering Long Beach. One day a farmer found the occasional sudden surge in the number of ants. Farmer thought to himself: These ants will not affect whether Long Beach's safety? He wanted to report back to the village, his son met on the road. Hearing disapproval, farmer's son, said: Long Beach, so strong, but also afraid of a few small ants? Shimoda then pulled together a farmer. That night the wind and rain, the Yellow River water surge. The beginning of the roaring river from the penetration of ants, and then spray, Long Beach finally burst, flooding large areas of coastal villages and fields.
  Related idioms:
  Idioms term: drop in the bucket
  Idioms Pronunciation: jiǔ niú yī máo
  Idioms doubts: the body of a nine cattle hair. Parable number of very large number of tiny, insignificant.
  Idioms Source: Han Qian, "reported Ren Shaoqing book": "Jialing Executed by the servant to punish, if the death of a nine cattle hair, and how ants different?"
  Phrase Example: Mo boasts nine cattle cent, complacency must be overturned. (Chen Yi, "a sense of what the book Mok Wai Qi Gu hand stretched" Poetry)
  (Where ~ represents the term: drop in the bucket)
  Idioms: Han Wudi (Liu Che) Li Ling heard deep into the Huns with the border troops, morale, and my heart glad. At this time,
  Many ministers are Couqu to congratulate the emperor wise and good servant. Li Ling surrendered later, Emperor very angry, had congratulated the
  The minister also criticized Li Ling useless and infidelity in turn. Qian then stood quietly, Emperor Wu asked him on the matter
  Views, Sima Qian Li Ling frank to say that only five thousand infantry, buildings suddenly pressed  send grasshopper file  ё.   so towering  orange ski  mantis?
  Battle, killing more than ten thousand enemies, real regarded as a great general of the. Finally, complete the arrow to do for food, return and is _truncate_d before
  Stop fighting, surrender Li Ling is not true, but waiting for the opportunity to serve the country. His credit is his failure to make the crime. Emperor
  Li Ling hear his defense, and close relatives of the emperor Li Guangli satirical attack from the front reactive Ru Yong Hun, anger in prison under the Qian
  Lane. The following year, as the Huns and training misrepresentation Li Ling, Emperor does not make things clear, put Li Ling's mother and his wife killed. Argentina
  Wei Du weeks in order to meet the emperor, Sima Qian had framed charges against the sin of the emperor, goes as far as Sima Qian lend a most cruel and most shameful "rot
  Criminal. "Sima Qian affected by this devastation, pain I, wanted to commit suicide; but then I thought, like him who low status
  Die, in many that rich people's eyes, but as "ninety death of a hair", instead of getting sympathy, and more will fides
  Ridicule. So determined to endure humiliation, with their hard lives and time, the tenacity to complete the great "Historical Records" written
  For. Dayong ancient so-called talent had great wisdom, Sima Qian is such a person. Which he knew in his era, died of a
  A position as he did not, no respectable person, not as good as dogs than dead, so he bravely live, it finally completed the Department of
  The great works of history ever - "Historical Records."
  Sima Qian of his turn molestation case of this idea has told friends Renshao Qing, who later is said according to his letter
  "Nine dead cattle a hair," a word, extended into a "drop in the bucket," this idiom is used metaphor of something or some talent only
  Very most inside part of the body like a nine cattle hair the same.
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English Expression
  1. n.:  mole crickets and ants, nobodies,  nonentities