Zhang Ailing said: Life is a gorgeous robe full of lice .. What do you mean?

The original text is "life is a gorgeous robe, full of fleas." It means that life looks glamorous, beautiful and beautiful, but while enjoying these beautiful things, we have to endure all kinds of troubles. "Lice" is the price we pay for wearing "robes".

Extended data:

This is a sentence from Zhang Ailing's Dream of Genius. Dream of Genius is an essay written by Zhang Ailing when she was 18 years old, and it is also regarded as the "first work" in her literary career. This article is an award-winning article written by Zhang Ailing for Shanghai West Wind magazine when she was a freshman at Hong Kong University.

This sentence appears at the end of the article. Combining the above two paragraphs, we can analyze Zhang Ailing's original intention: some insurmountable troubles in life are "lice" in this robe of life. Here are the last three paragraphs.

My mother gave me two years to learn to adapt to the environment. She taught me to cook; Wash clothes with soap powder; Practice walking posture; Look at people's glances; Remember to close the curtains after lighting; Study facial expressions in the mirror; Don't tell jokes without humor genius.

I show amazing stupidity in my common sense of dealing with people. My two-year plan is a failed experiment. My mother's painful warning didn't affect me except that my mind was out of balance.

There is a part of the art of life that I can't appreciate. I know how to watch Clouds in July, listen to Scottish soldiers playing bagpipes, enjoy rattan chairs in the breeze, eat salted peanuts, enjoy neon lights on rainy nights, and reach out from the double-decker bus to pick the green leaves at the top of the tree. When no one handed over, I was full of joy in life. But I can't overcome this little distress for a day. Life is a gorgeous robe full of fleas.

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