The idiom "survival of the fittest" is survival of the fittest.
Introduction to idioms:
Idioms (Pinyin: chéng yǔ, English: idiom) are stereotyped words in Chinese vocabulary. Idioms are spoken by everyone, and they are made into words, so they are idioms. Most idioms have four characters, but there are also three, five or even seven or more characters.
Idioms are a major feature of traditional Chinese culture. They have fixed structural forms and fixed sayings, expressing a certain meaning. They are used as a whole in a sentence and bear the responsibilities of subject, object, attributive, etc. Element. A large part of idioms are inherited from ancient times and represent a story or allusion. Some idioms are just miniature sentences. Idioms are also ready-made words, similar to idiomatic expressions and proverbs, but also slightly different.
Features of idioms:
1. Structural fixity:
The components and structural forms of idioms are fixed and generally cannot be changed or added or deleted at will. morpheme. For example, "the lips are dead and the teeth are cold" cannot be changed to "the lips are dead and the teeth are cold", "the lips are dead and the teeth are cold", "the lips are cold without teeth"; "the chest has no ink", nor can it be increased to "the chest has no ink". In addition, the word order in idioms is also fixed and cannot be changed at will. For example, "the ins and outs" cannot be changed to "the ins and outs, the origins and consequences"; "the great contribution" cannot be changed to "the great contribution".
2. Integrity of meaning:
Idioms have integrity in meaning. "Its meaning is often not the simple sum of the meanings of its constituent components, but the overall meaning further summarized based on the meaning of its constituent components." For example, "fox fakes tiger's power", the superficial meaning is "fox fakes tiger's power", but the actual meaning is "relying on other people's power to bully others".
"The rabbit dies and the dog is cooked", the superficial meaning is "when the rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked and eaten", but the actual meaning is "people who serve the ruler are abandoned or killed after they are done"; " "Forgetting sleep and food", the superficial meaning is "ignoring sleep and forgetting to eat", but the actual meaning is "extreme concentration and hard work" and so on.
3. Diversity of grammar:
From the perspective of Chinese grammar, Chinese idioms are equivalent to a phrase in a sentence, because a phrase can serve as different components in a sentence , so the grammatical functions of idioms are also diverse. Chinese idioms have various forms. As mentioned above, there are four-character idioms, five-character idioms, six-character idioms, seven-character idioms, eight-character idioms, etc. Among them, four-character idioms are the main form of Chinese idioms.