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"Cricket on the hearth" nghĩa là gì?
08 Sep, 2020
"Cricket on the hearth" = con dế trên bệ lò sưởi -> nghĩa là dấu hiệu của vận may, sức khỏe tốt.
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Who is the young man, anyway? What about the elderly stranger staying in his home? And will May really marry the cynical (hoài nghi) Tackleton, whom she admits she doesn’t even love? Is that cricket on the hearth really a good-luck sign or a harbinger (người báo hiệu) of bad news?
For thousands of years, it has been considered lucky to have a cricket on the hearth, especially in Asian countries where crickets were once used as watchdogs (chó giữ nhà). When danger approached, the cricket’s chirping would stop.
“To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!” — Dot Peerybingle in Charles Dickens’ “The Cricket on the Hearth,” 1845
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