| 马马虎虎- Horse horse tiger tiger ? 马（mǎ）means horse 虎（hǔ）means tiger 马虎（mǎ hu）means careless 马马虎虎（mǎ mǎ hū hū）also means careless, but now people use it as just so so For example 你的中文怎么样？（nǐ de zhōng wén zěn me yàng） How is your Chinese? 马马虎虎~ When Chinese people say 马马虎虎，it means kind of modesty, actually they are not just so so. The story of 马马虎虎 In ancient China, Song dynasty, there was a painter. He was such a careless man that he drawed whatever he liked. One day, a customer came to the painter’s house and asked him to draw a tiger.He draw carlessly within a minute. As a result, the picture turned out to be neither like a horse nor a tiger. The guest got confused and asked him ,”what it was?” The painter impatiently replied,”hortiger”. The guest didn’t like it and went away. On the contrary, the paitner thought it was a very good painting. He put it on the wall in the dinning hall for appreciation . After a while, his elder son saw the painting. He asked his father what he drawed in the painting. The painter answered,“It is a tiger”. His younger son also saw the painting in the dinning hall. He was curious about it and asked his father what it was. “A horse”, his father replied without thought. Several days went by. His elder son went off hunting. He mistook a farmer’s horse for a tiger and killed it. The painter had to apologized to the farmer for killing his horse and paid back. But troubles never come single. His yonger son ran into a tiger. Like his brother, he couldn’t tell a tiger from a horse. Thus, he got eaten by the tiger. The painter was devastated by his death. He burned the painting with tears and sorrows. Since then, the word 马虎 became widely known and passed on by people. At present, we used the word to mean not paying enough attention to what you are doing and so you are making mistakes, or causing harm or damage. |
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