APAD:One good turn deserves……

One good turn deserves another 

means that when someone does a favor for you, you should do a favor for them in repayment; kindness should be rewarded with kindness. The proverb one good turn deserves anotherhas been in use since the 1400s and may be found in John Heywood’s A dialogue conteinyng the nomber of all the proverbes in the englishe tongue published in 1546 as: “One good turn asketh another.” The sentiment behind one good turn deserves another is credited to Aesop, a Greek storyteller who lived in the 500s B.C. His story, The Serpent and the Eagle, tells the tale of a farmer who witnessed a life-and-death struggle between a serpent and an eagle. The farmer freed the eagle from the serpent, but as the serpent departed, he spat venom into the farmer’s drinking flask. The farmer didn’t notice, and began to take a drink from his flask, but the eagle knocked the flask from the farmer’s hands to save him from being poisoned. The moral of Aesop’s fable is: One good turn deserves another.

Phrasal verb:

Drop out — To quit or stop participating in something

Type: Separable, intransitive

She was a straight-A student, but she dropped out of college to pursue her dream of becoming an artist.

 

 

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Nice tale from Aesop. He was early but shouldn't -7grizzly- 给 7grizzly 发送悄悄话 7grizzly 的博客首页 (188 bytes) () 06/11/2023 postreply 17:00:52

quid-pro-quo 这个词也太难了啊 -妖妖灵- 给 妖妖灵 发送悄悄话 妖妖灵 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 06/11/2023 postreply 17:23:32

Remember Dr. Lecter: Quid-pro-quo. Yes or no, Clarice? -7grizzly- 给 7grizzly 发送悄悄话 7grizzly 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 06/11/2023 postreply 18:34:37

你这英文也太好了!学习了:) -妖妖灵- 给 妖妖灵 发送悄悄话 妖妖灵 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 06/11/2023 postreply 19:03:53

Thank you. Just happened to remember. It was a great movie. -7grizzly- 给 7grizzly 发送悄悄话 7grizzly 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 06/11/2023 postreply 19:20:02

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlRLfbONYgM -7grizzly- 给 7grizzly 发送悄悄话 7grizzly 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 06/11/2023 postreply 18:37:17

Great proverb, by the way, and it was new to me. -7grizzly- 给 7grizzly 发送悄悄话 7grizzly 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 06/11/2023 postreply 17:02:39

我也是刚看到并学会:) -妖妖灵- 给 妖妖灵 发送悄悄话 妖妖灵 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 06/11/2023 postreply 17:23:59

I grew up with Aesop's Fables -移花接木- 给 移花接木 发送悄悄话 移花接木 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 06/11/2023 postreply 17:04:34

中文版还是英文版?那你知道这个伊索寓言? -妖妖灵- 给 妖妖灵 发送悄悄话 妖妖灵 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 06/11/2023 postreply 17:24:52

中文,这个故事似乎有印象 -移花接木- 给 移花接木 发送悄悄话 移花接木 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 06/11/2023 postreply 18:14:11

爱心接力? -Zhuzitaba- 给 Zhuzitaba 发送悄悄话 Zhuzitaba 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 12:04:49

礼尚往来~ -妖妖灵- 给 妖妖灵 发送悄悄话 妖妖灵 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 13:40:09

One good turn deserves another. 学习啦~ ~ -盈盈一笑间- 给 盈盈一笑间 发送悄悄话 盈盈一笑间 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 18:04:58

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