每日惯用语（56）

A 保护伞
someone or some power that can provide special protection like an umbrella.

【发音】bǎo hù sǎn

【释义】比喻可以起庇护作用的力量或人物（多含贬义）。
            This phrase, in a sarcastic way, compares someone or some power to an umbrella that can protect certain people or organizations.

【例1】这和全球许多地方滥用权力的情况是个强烈的对比。在这些地方，身居高位者不为人民谋福利，却利用保护伞和职权中饱私囊。
           This is in sharp contrast with the abuse of powers widespread in many parts of the world, where protective umbrellas enabled some public figures to exploit their positions for personal gains, instead of working for the common good of the people under their care.

【例2】一些企业在地方主义的保护伞下“逍遥法外”。
           Some enterprises were under local protectionism.

Although knowing that tigers reside in the mountain, one still insists on walking up there.

Better to be a shard of jade than a whole tile.

       Never burning incense when all is well, but clasping Buddha’s feet in an emergency.

It takes ten years to grow a tree, but a hundred years to bring up a generation of good men.