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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 106. The proverb today is to \"Put the

  • Cart Before the Horse. \" Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If someone puts

  • the cart before the horse he or she is not doing things in the proper order.

  • You know obviously this alludes to the idea that you know, if you actually put

  • the cart in front of the horse that wouldn't make sense because the horse is

  • the one that pulls the cart. So you're not doing it in the correct order. The

  • horse has to go in front of the cart because the horse has to be the one to

  • pull the cart. So this is what we mean. We're telling something you're not doing

  • something in the right order and you know this is going to cause a problem

  • because you're not doing it in the right order. Let's continue. The earliest

  • citing of this proverb goes back to a quote from Cicero you know, a Roman

  • politician, famous orator is great speaker and philosopher in 44 BC . So all

  • right. Let's take a look at the quote. They have here. \"We put the cart before the

  • horse and shut the stable door when the steed is stolen in defiance of the old

  • proverb. \" So he is covering a number of things here. Again he was probably

  • complaining about the government maybe they were doing things in the wrong

  • order. Or you know, shut the stable door. A stable that's where you keep horses and the

  • steed is the type of horse. So if a steed was stolen, it's already stolen. Now

  • you're closing the door that it's stolen. Well it's too late. They already stole

  • the horse. So you don't close the ... you don't need to close the door now because

  • there's no horse left anymore. So again it's also in the wrong order too.

  • So he's complaining. This is one of his said quotes. We put the cart before the

  • horse and shut the stable door when the steed you know, when this steed is stolen.

  • When it's gone, in defiance of the old proverb.

  • So in this suggestion this is actually suggested that this this proverb was

  • probably around for a while. Even in his time, but this is the early

  • citing we have. A first time we can actually find it in writing.

  • All right. Let's uh let's look. We have three examples here. Example number one.

  • It is too soon to propose to her . You just started dating and maybe the only

  • starting a few weeks and maybe this guy he wants to propose already. And somebody is

  • saying you need time to let your relationship grow deeper. Don't put the

  • cart before the horse and don't think don't put things out of order. So you

  • need more time to get a deeper relationship before you can propose. Okay.

  • Good. Let's look at number two. Many of China's ghost cities. So years ago we were

  • hearing a lot of news about their ghost cities. I don't know maybe they filled

  • more of them now, but for a long time they built all these very fancy kind of

  • expensive and ghost cities with nobody living in them. So , so many of the Chinese

  • ghost cities was a case or you could say like an example, of putting the cart

  • before the horse. They should have waited until there was enough demand to fill

  • most of those cities before building them. Yeah. That is there is a number of

  • issues with this too. We all know that when you build a building, if nobody

  • lives in it, it causes damage. You need people to use it. Just like a machine if

  • it sits too long some things actually break down or don't work right. So so you

  • should really have had the demand you should have had the people ready to be

  • you know, buying it and moving in or you know very soon after it was built.

  • Not, not build it first and then wait for many years before people will move in

  • there. Okay. Good and number three here. You are not supposed to quit your

  • present job until you have another one lined up ready. So you know maybe you can

  • quit like with a week difference in between but you already know that you're

  • starting this other job soon after it. You know , you don't just quit the job first. Yes. So

  • again. It's out of order. You get the new job then you quit this job and then you

  • you go from there. Don't put the cart before the horse.

  • Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time.

  • Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 106. The proverb today is to \"Put the

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英語導師Nick P 箴言(106) 本末倒置的諺語。 (English Tutor Nick P Proverbs (106) Put the Cart Before the Horse)

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