字幕列表 影片播放 列印英文字幕 Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 75. The name of the proverb today is ' The straw that broke the camel's back. " Okay this is actually pretty common one. All right. Let's take a look at the note here. This proverb refers to the last thing in a series of negative things that causes a breakdown in a system or someone to lose one's patience or simply to be a breaking causes, a breaking point that causes something to fail. So it's not usually just one thing it was usually a number of things that we're building up over time. Just like the idea of you know, if you pack too much stuff on the camel's back is obviously it's not the first thing or the second thing or the third thing you put on it, but there comes a point that if you just continue and continue and continue, eventually the camel's back will break or he will collapse. The whole thing will fall apart. So let's continue here. They say this proverb does come from an Arab proverb about overloading a camel's back beyond its capacity. So that's what they the original idea did come from. All right. Again. Let's continue the form of this proverb close to our modern-day use can be first found in a Charles Dickens novel "Dombey and Son. " Remember Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol' , he's famous for many, many famous novels. The original wording in the Dickens novel was 'as the last straw breaks the laden camel's back. 'Yeah. Laden always means that you know, you have a lot of stuff that's weighing down. That's really heavy , you know by putting a lot of things on top of something. We always say something is laden with it. It's filled with it and it's weighing down. The Laden camel's back. It's also formed into another phrase in which someone can say something is the last straw. And that one's pretty common too. So well that's the last straw I'm quitting or something like that. It means the last thing there's been a lot of things been building up to this point and that's it. That's the end. All right. So let's continue and let's give one good example here. Jack was already on the bad side of the boss due to his poor performance and laziness for many months. Yes. It was probably quite a number of things that was building up that the boss was annoying the boss about, about Jack you know. So was it again that just wasn't one thing. It was like 10 things or 15 things. Today when he arrived at an important meeting 30 minutes late the boss said that was the last straw. That's it. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. He fired him on the spot. Yeah. Now normally you know if somebody's just late once for a meeting they probably won't be fired just for that. So that's why very often the thing that breaks the camel's back or the thing that's the last straw is not always the worst thing or the most serious thing but it's usually been building for a long time and somebody again somebody just lost their patience or that was the thing that finally made something foul or collapse. Then we say that thing is the thing that broke the camel's back or that thing is the last straw. Okay anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time . Bye- bye.
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