Later, this joke gave rise to the idiom, the man from Zheng buys shoes, which satirize those who only believe in dogma and who dont consider objective reality.

后来人们根据这个笑话引申出郑人买履这句成语，讽喻那些只相信教条，不顾客观实际的人。

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A man of the State of Zheng saw this exquisite case and liked it very much.

有个郑国人看到这只精美的匣子，非常喜欢，就用重金买了下来。

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Mr. Zheng is a man to be depended on.

郑先生是一位靠得住的人。

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"The drought isn't a natural disaster but a man-made calamity, " writes Zheng Fengtian of Remin University.

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