Explanation of the meaning of "take meaning out of context": a person who misunderstands the other person because of prejudice. Later, it was also used as a metaphor for quoting other people's writings and remarks and taking only the parts that agree with one's own opinion.

I. Broken Chapter and Taking Meaning

Broken Chapter and Taking Meaning (pinyin: duàn zhāng qǔ yì) is an idiom derived from a historical story, which first came from Zuo Zhuan (左传)-the Twenty-eighth Year of Xiang Gong (襄公二十八). It originally refers to expressing one's own opinion by intercepting only one verse from a chapter of the Book of Songs, without regard to the original meaning of the quoted verse, or to isolate the meaning of one paragraph or one sentence of a text or conversation without regard to the content of the whole text or conversation.

It means that the quotation does not correspond to the original meaning. Later, it was used as a metaphor for quoting other people's writings and speeches and taking only the parts that agree with one's own opinion. Southern Dynasty Liang - Liu Innocenti "Wenxin Diao Long - Chapter and Sentence": "Looking for poets to propose metaphors, although out of context, but the chapter and sentence in the chapter, such as the cocoon of the extraction of clues, the original to the end, the body must be scaled."

Second, out of context allegory

Spring and Autumn period, the passage of poems, from the poem out of context, to poetry. When Confucius explained poems to his students, he often took the meaning out of the poem according to the need of teaching. Lu Pugui, following the example of Confucius, did not shy away from marrying a member of the same clan and took Qing Jiang as his wife in order to fulfill his own needs. There is nothing wrong with what they did. However, for learning knowledge, learning to do the need to guard against impatience, to overcome the out-of-context, do not seek to understand the style, to do, "know what it is, know what it is not, know the reason why", in order to make progress.

Three, out of context sentences

1, he quoted that article, pinpointing the end, out of context, the impact is very bad.

2. His citation is simply untenable because he did not understand the basic claim of the article he cited, but merely quoted it out of context.

3. The article is generally good, so don't take it out of context and deliberately nitpick.

4. It's not right for you to take it out of context in this way.

5. We need to understand everything comprehensively and not take anything out of context.