good teachers and helpful friends
It means a good teacher and a good friend who can help others. It is used to describe a friend who is also a teacher and friend.
The origin of Idioms
According to the Analects of Confucius, there must be a teacher for three people. Choose the good one and follow it, and change the bad one
Idiom usage
It is a combination of subject, object and attribute with commendatory meaning.
Example:
In the Analects of Confucius, Ji Shi: "the three friends who benefit, the three friends who damage. If you are honest, understanding and knowledgeable, you will benefit. If you are friendly, you will be open, kind and gentle, and you will be sycophantic
In Shuo yuan Shuo Cong written by Liu Xiang of Han Dynasty, it is said that "good teachers and good friends are on the side of them, poetry, books, rites and music are on the front, and those who abandon them to be bad ones are rare." Good: good; good: helpful. A good teacher and friend who can help others.
It's hard to say goodbye to a friend who has been associated with us for more than half a century.
(Xia Yan's "knowing that the public will go here without regret -- mourning Comrade Guo Moruo)"
good teachers and helpful friends
make up a deficiency by the surplus - jué cháng bǔ duǎn
outwardly strong but inwardly weak - wài qiáng zhōng gān
make endless exorbitant demands on - zhū qiú bù yǐ
make a great show of being earnest - xiàng shà yǒu jiè shì
help one another in defense work - shǒu wàng xiāng zhù