Imagination rules the world is a translation from the phrase “L’imagination gouverne le monde” or “L’imaginaire gouverne le monde”.
Other profound and popular phrases about imagination include: “seeing is believing” or “a picture is worth a thousand words”, etc.
In Chinese, the words for imagination can be literately translated as “the ability to think about an entire elephant”, which leads to the story of several blind men and an elephant:
The moral of the story is: if you can look at truth from different perspective, your vision of truth is closer to what it really is. Therefore the importance of learning multiple languages is: if you can understand different languages in the world, you would have a better chance of understanding what the language of God is truly trying to convey.
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Once you grasped the meaning of the above chart, try to read out loud the following words, and match them with the picturesque descriptions of the above elephant.
zhui(1)zhi(0)
gun(4)zhi(0)
zhu(4)zhi(0)
shan(4)zhi(0)
shua(1)zhi(0)
bian(1)zhi(0)
tan(3)zhi(0)