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　　Mary did not understand such sentences as “She is blue today”, “You are yellow”, “He has a green thumb”, “He has told a white lie” and so on．And she went to the teacher for help．

　　Mary asked, “Would you tell me the meaning of the color in each sentence, Mrs Smith?”

　　Mrs Smith said, “In everyday English, ’blue’ sometimes means ‘sad’, ‘yellow’, ’afraid’．A person with a ‘green thumb’ grows plants well and ‘a white lie’, is not a bad one．”

　　“Would you give me an example for a white lie”? Mary asked．

　　Mrs Smith said with a smile, “Certainly．Now I just give you some cakes．In fact, you don’t like them, but you won’t say it．Instead you say ‘No, thanks．I’m not hungry ’,That’s a white lie．”

　　Mary said, “Oh, I see．Thank you very much．”

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　　In China, people talk about “Shuxiang”, which is very interesting．For example, 2006 is a “dog year”, and when a baby is born in this year, we say he or she is a little dog．Shuxiang usually brings people good luck．There are 12 animals below．

　　social, having rich feelings, friendly but complaining

　　hard, ordered, but keeping old

　　brave, confident, but careless

　　peaceful, having a good manner, a business head but cold emotion

　　active, outgoing, popular but selfish

　　fascinating(迷人的), thoughtful, but doubtful

　　active, self-confident, wise but proud and angry

　　kind, helpful, elegant but sad

　　wide, clever, warm, unsatisfied but slick(圆滑的)

　　confident, helpful, happy, but dressy

　　realistic, loyal(忠诚的), practical

　　hard, honest, simple, lucky but careless

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