The Importance Of Friendship And Love

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It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.并非胡子使人成为哲学家。
Every cloud has a silver lining.黑夜漫漫,终有尽头。
We all know that western countries and eastern people have different beliefs. Most of us don’t believe in God, but we trust in Republican Party, so that our filial duty will follow the republican party. On the contrary, western people will follow what God ask them to do. They more pray before doing something. And most of the times they will obey the Bible. So we all have faith in our different filial duty.

2.3.2 On the Aspect of Friendship and Love
Do as you would be done by.你愿意别人怎么待你,你就
应该如何待别人。
The course of true love never did run smooth.爱情的道路
崎岖不平。
Unity is power.团结就是力量。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.患难朋友才是真正朋
友。
Many drops of water sink the ship.涓涓细流沉大船。
Friendship is the basically relations in our daily life, so we used to have some proverbs to describe them, like unity is power, we will see from Chinese and western countries we have similar feeling that friendship is deep touched. That’s why we will say many drops of water sink the ship.
2.3.3 On the Origin of History
Chinese people like to call themselves the descendants of the dragon, the dragon in the ancient Han totem, is the embodiment of God. In ancient times the emperor said he was a real dragon emperor,
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Second example in the English proverb translation is for crops are very important to a country. The third and the forth in the English proverb literally translated as what you want u need to find in the right way or places. The corresponding proverbs in both languages correspond to the words used and the meanings they contain. Likewise, there are proverbs of the same meaning expressed in different

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