今天是虎年的大年初一，酒馆团队向你拜年啦！祝大家虎虎生威、龙腾虎跃、如虎添翼、虎年大吉！

So Year of the Tiger! 今天我们的大年初一特别节目-《虎年特辑》就来和大家聊聊有关"万兽之王"老虎的 Fun Facts.

Tiger intro

Apex predator

顶级掠食者

This means it's at the very top of the food chain.

Hypercarnivore

超级食肉动物

This means at least 70% of tigers' diet is meat.

Tiger fun facts

Unlike a lot of other cats, tigers are very strong swimmers. They can swim up to 29 kilometers in a day.

日游29公里，不愧是我！

They have extremely powerful hind legs, a fully grown tiger can leap over 8 meters and jumped up to 5meters vertically.

“龙腾虎跃”大显身手！

Among all big cats, tigers have the longest canines, with a crown height of up to 9 cm.

大型猫科动物里，老虎拥有最长的犬齿哦。

An adult tiger can go for up to 2 weeks without eating and then eat up to 40 kg of meat at one sitting.

“暴食界”的小先锋喜提“狼吞虎咽”称号！

When it rolls, it can be heard up to 3 kilometers away.

虎啸的力量，三公里外都能听见！

Domestic house cat shares over 95% of its DNA with tigers. So essentially, your own cat is actually a little tiger.

小Kitty发起威来，可是大“脑斧”哦！

There is a possibility of hybrid between lion and tiger. So a male lion and a female tiger can create something called a Liger, and it's even more massive than its parents.

狮子和老虎原来可以“成亲”，狮子王和母老虎的小baby就是传说中的“狮虎兽”啦~

Tiger Symbolism in Chinese culture

Throughout our history, the tiger has always incited a sense of both awe and admiration. Its prowess, its ferocity, its beauty, and the harmony of the opposites.

在中国文化里，老虎象征着权力、热情和大胆，经常是威严正直的化身，是不是都听过“老虎屁股摸不得”呀~

People born in the year of the tiger

For people who are born in the Year of the Tiger, they tend to be seen as brave, authoritative and self-assured with a strong moral compass and belief system.

而虎年出生的人，也通常给人自信、勇猛，而且秉性正直的印象。

Tiger expressions

Tigress

母老虎（good or bad？）

中里说到母老虎多半想到的是泼辣、蛮横, but the word tigress in English focuses more on the positive side of being fierce and daring.

- Tiger cannot change its stripes

江山易改本性难移

*Leopard cannot change its spots

-Catch a tiger by the tail

To be involved with someone or something that is powerful and could become troublesome or threatening.

- Now that I have to work closely with the CEO on this project, I feel like I’ve caught a tiger by the tail.

这里的意思就比较贴近“伴君如伴虎”啦~

- These investments are way too risky, but we've already got the tiger by the tail. If we tried to bail out now, it could be disastrous.

而在这里则更像是“骑虎难下”~

-Catch a tiger by the toe

原来，我们小时候都玩过的“点兵点将，骑马打仗，点到的人跟我走，不走你就是小狗”在英文里也有对应：

*Eeny meeny miny moe

Catch a tiger by the toe

If it hollers, let it go

Eeny meeny miny moe

*Racist past

(Pulp fiction/Walking dead)

﹡不过这首童谣在1980s之前，孩子们念的都不是catch a "tiger" by the toe，而是有种族歧视意义的"N-word", 在影视剧《低俗小说》和《行尸走肉》里都有出现~

Tiger in art

-In me the tiger sniffs the rose (poem by Siegfried Sasson)

我心有猛虎在细嗅蔷薇

-Tiger King 《养虎为患》

Critically-acclaimed Netflix series

Tiger King is about the deeply interconnected community of big cat conservationists and collectors in America.

《养虎为患》甚至被人称作是乡土低配版的《权游》。

Closing

-Eye of the Tiger (Rocky III)

"Eye of the Tiger" is a song by American rock band Survivor. It was released as a single from their third album of the same name and was also the theme song for the 1982 film Rocky III.

被奉为美国人精神圣经的音乐遗产之一，是电影《洛奇3》的主题曲。

因为快速的节奏和高昂的情绪，它还被认为是最好的健身BGM之一呢。