Chinese Sketches
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In China, a coolie's "load" consists of two baskets or bundles sliiDg with ropes to the end of a flat bamboo pole about five feet in length, and thus carried across the shoulder. Hence the ex- pression. Apropos of marriage, the guitar string is broken, is an elegant periphrasis by which it is under- stood that a man's wife is dead, the verb "to die" being rarely used in conversation, and never of a rela- tive or friend. He will not put a new string to his guitar is, of course, a continuation of... the same idea, more coarsely expressed as putting on a new coat. His father has been gathered to the west a phrase evidently of Buddhistic import is no more, has gone for a stroll, has bid adieu to the world, may all be employed to supply the place of the tabooed verb, which is chiefly used of animals and plants. After a few days' illness he kicked, is a vulgar way of putting SLANG. 67 it, and analogous to the English slang idiom. The Emperor becomes a guest on high, riding up to heaven on the dragon's back, with flowers of rhetoric ad nauseam; Buddhist priests revolve into emptiness, i.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In China, a coolie's "load" consists of two baskets or bundles sliiDg with ropes to the end of a flat bamboo pole about five feet in length, and thus carried across the shoulder. Hence the ex- pression. Apropos of marriage, the guitar string is broken, is an elegant periphrasis by which it is under- stood that a man's wife is dead, the verb "to die" being rarely used in conversation, and never of a rela- tive or friend. He will not put a new string to his guitar is, of course, a continuation of... the same idea, more coarsely expressed as putting on a new coat. His father has been gathered to the west a phrase evidently of Buddhistic import is no more, has gone for a stroll, has bid adieu to the world, may all be employed to supply the place of the tabooed verb, which is chiefly used of animals and plants. After a few days' illness he kicked, is a vulgar way of putting SLANG. 67 it, and analogous to the English slang idiom. The Emperor becomes a guest on high, riding up to heaven on the dragon's back, with flowers of rhetoric ad nauseam; Buddhist priests revolve into emptiness, i.
What to read after Chinese Sketches?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Giles Herbert Allen to read onlineMoreLess
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