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46 啄木鳥治樹
啄木鳥治樹
─全仗嘴硬。
全仗嘴硬
啄木鳥靠著堅硬的嘴，
啄木鳥靠著堅硬的嘴
才能把樹裡的蟲啄去。
才能把樹裡的蟲啄去
比喻用嘴巴逞能，不認輸。
比喻用嘴巴逞能 不認輸
A woodpecker curing a tree ─ relying completely on his hard beak.
The point of this phrase rests on zui-ying which here is used punningly to
describe the woodpecker’s hard beak but normally describes a person
who is swaggeringly self-assertive and insists on in being in the right.
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