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What does it mean to make an example?
Dealing with a bad person or a bad thing is used to warn those who learn to do bad things.

From Zuo Qiuming's Twenty-one Years of Zuo Zhuan and Zhuang Gong in the Spring and Autumn Period: "Zheng Bo must follow it and blame it."

Vernacular: Zheng Bo will feel guilty even if he imitates bad behavior.

Usage: verb-object type; As a predicate.

Example: To be serious, not punishing is not enough to calm the public's anger. The school decided to give you a heavier punishment as an example.

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1. Killing chickens, for example: It was originally for monkeys to kill chickens. It is a metaphor to warn others by punishing individuals.

Said by: According to legend, monkeys are most afraid of seeing blood. The monkey trainer first killed the chicken face to face and told it to see the power of blood. Can be gradually enlightened.

2. Take killing one as an example: it means killing one person to warn many people.

From Ban Gu's Biography of Hanyin Weng in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Take one and quit a hundred, and both officials and people will take it."

Vernacular: execute one person to warn many people, and officials and people have obeyed.

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