English Idioms 2022 扔苹果

Virtue is its own reward-------Socrates

(saying) the reward for acting in a moral or correct way is the knowledge that you have done so, and you should not expect more than this, for example praise from other people or payment

Virtue, yeah, they were talking about the German virtue:

“Virtue cannot be taught, no more than genius; indeed, concepts are as unfruitful for it as for art and of use only as tools.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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捶胸顿足 meaning “to beat （thump) one’s chest and stamp one’s feet”

"我家的"小狗吃了我的"回家"作业！

dog ate my homework is an English expression which carries the suggestion of being a common, poorly fabricated excuse made by schoolchildren to explain their failure to turn in an assignment on time. The phrase is referenced, even beyond the educational context, as a sarcastic rejoinder to any similarly glib or otherwise insufficient or implausible explanation for a failure in any context.

As an explanation for missing documents, it dates to a story about a Welsh minister first recorded in print in 1905. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that a 1929 reference establishes that schoolchildren had at some time earlier than that offered it as an excuse to teachers. It was so recorded, more than once, in the 1965 bestselling novel Up the Down Staircase, and began to assume its present sense as the sine qua non of dubious excuses, particularly in American culture, both in school and out, in the 1970s. American presidents from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama have used it to criticize political opponents, and it has been a source of humor for various comic strips and television shows, such as The Simpsons.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergamy

Hypergamy (colloquially referred to as "marrying up") is a term used in social science for the act or practice of a person marrying a spouse of higher caste or social status than themselves.

The antonym "hypogamy" refers to the inverse: marrying a person of lower social class or status (colloquially "marrying down").

the dog that caught the car

This idiom is based on the strange habit that some dogs have of chasing cars that are passing by on a nearby road.

What on earth would one of these crazed canines do if it actually caught a car? (This idiom is also seen as the dog that caught the truck (1993) and the dog that caught the bus (1994).) It means the impossible has been accomplished. But then what? Oh, the dog is dead? Because the dog actually catching the car.....usually doesn't end well for the dog.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

------Buddha

上述淘金热的出处很可能是错误的，应该是修太平洋铁路。

“到1864年，中央太平洋铁路建设中的中国劳工多达4000人，随着华工在铁路建设中展现出吃苦耐劳的品质和极高的工作效率，中央太平洋公司加大了华工的引进力度，在中国太平洋铁路建设最盛时，华工人数占工人总数的90％。西部地形复杂崎岖，华人往往被指派最危险的工作。其中内华达山脉路段到处都是悬崖峭壁，华工们用简易的草篮子装载同伴，顺着滑轮组将篮子送下悬崖，在离谷底600米的岩石上钻孔，然后安放炸药。一切就绪后，上方的华工迅速拉起绳索，将同伴拉回来。这一过程风险极大，施工华人往往会被炸药炸伤或是跌落悬崖而死。”

命懸一線，英文類似表達：
put one's life on the line, lay one's life on the line

同樣價格，份量縮水。"隐形涨价" 
Shrinkflation can avoid sticker shock.   通膨，商家也難。

“sticker shock”
 That's a good one too. 

Per Diem
Per diem most commonly refers to a fixed daily allowance an organization provides to employees or contract workers to cover business travel expenses. The word is derived from Latin and translates to “by the day.”

Carpetbagger | “炒房团”和美国政治 ：
Dictionary.com这样定义carpetbagger \ˈkär-pət-ba-gər\：any opportunistic or exploitive outsider（怀着投机心理、谋求私利的外来者）。

No harm, no foul

It is a phrase that means even though one has committed a mistake or participated in misconduct or a transgression, one should be excused because nothing and no one has come to harm.

This is an American phrase that comes from the game of basketball. In basketball, if a player commits a transgression against the rules that doesn't have an effect on the outcome of the game, the referee should not call a foul against that player.