In the line test exam, word choice and filling in the blanks has always been a headache for everyone, the main reason is that we do not analyze the question stem in place, and the word discrimination and analysis are not accurate, so today I will share with you a set of idioms related to "harm" to help you better remember and understand.
Drink the donkey to quench your thirst, ask for fish from the wood, kill the chicken and take the eggs, and raise the soup to stop the boiling
Meaning: Drink to quench thirst: quench thirst with poisonous wine. The metaphor seeks to solve the current difficulties without recklessness.
Fish in the wood: Climb the tree to find the fish. The figurative direction or approach is not right, and it is impossible to achieve the goal.
Killing chickens for eggs: It means that in order to get eggs, chickens are not hesitated to be killed. It is a metaphor for greedy for immediate gain and not for long-term gain.
Raise the soup to stop boiling: Scoop out the boiling water and pour it back so that the water in the pot does not boil for a while. The metaphorical method is not thorough, and it can only temporarily relieve the emergency, but cannot fundamentally solve the problem.
Analysis: The meaning is different
Drink to quench thirst: focus on doing things in the wrong way regardless of the serious consequences.
Seeking fish from the edge of the wood: the wrong method of emphasis.
Raise the soup to stop boiling: the focus method is not thorough.
Killing chickens and eggs: focusing only on immediate interests.
Next, do a few practice questions to see if you have mastered it
Example 1] Our unplanned and indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources is tantamount to and will inevitably be retaliated against by nature in the end.
Analysis] Drink to quench thirst. We can know that this void is "tantamount to" that it wants to modify the consequences of the unplanned and indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources now, and it is pointed out later that it will inevitably be retaliated against by nature in the end, which also shows that the empty place wants to reflect the serious consequences, and drinking water to quench thirst is in line with emptiness.
Example 2] In Brave New World, Adolphus Huxley depicts a human society in the year 2532 that relies on reproductive technology. There, the humanities could not keep up with the development of science and technology, and the "fetishism" of mankind became more and more prosperous: it was believed that medicine could solve all ailments, and technology could make up for the gap between the humanities. In fact, it's tantamount to
Analysis] Yuanmu seeks fish. Through the unprecedented "this is tantamount to", we can know that the empty space is a summary of the previous article, and the "fact" is a turning point for the previous article, and it is impossible to explain that the "fetishism" believes that medicine can solve all diseases and that science and technology can make up for the gap between humanities cannot achieve the goal. Therefore, the wrong method of focusing on the edge wood and seeking fish cannot achieve the goal, when writing the edge wood seeking fish.
Example 3] Industry insiders generally believe that from the characteristics of the second-hand housing LAT policy itself, the prior experience and the general market trend, this is tantamount to a substantive effect that is difficult to see for a while.
Analysis] Yang soup to stop boiling. Through "no different", we can know that what the vacancy wants to modify is the result of the second-hand housing LAT policy. It is easy to think that "the meaning of emptiness is "not to play a substantive role". "Raising soup to stop boiling" focuses on the incomplete method, which can basically reflect that it does not play a substantive role, so fill in the soup to stop boiling.
Example 4] Vulgar advertising is essentially a kind of "future" even if it can make "money" in a short period of time. No matter how important the symbolic value of advertising is, it cannot be separated from the fundamental quality of goods. When the novelty and curiosity dissipate, such vulgar advertisements will encounter "bad reviews" and "voting with their feet" from consumers. In an era of crash tracking, vulgar advertising comes and goes fast.
Analysis] Kill chickens and take eggs. The empty space is intended to embellish the essence of vulgar advertising in the text, and later points out that "there is no future", which means harming long-term interests, so the chicken is killed to take the eggs.
Finally, I will give you a few words to help you remember.
Drinking to quench thirst: the consequences are heavy.
Fish for Edgewood: Wrong method.
Raise the soup to stop boiling: not thorough.
Killing chickens and taking eggs: immediate benefits.