Kesepadanan Makna #1: Once Bitten Twice Shy

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim,

Hari ini saya menemukan suatu hal yang menarik. Saya lagi main game berjudul Bravely Default untuk console 3DS, dan di game tersebut ada kalimat ini: "once bitten twice shy". Begitu baca kalimat itu, saya merasa kalau kalimat itu pasti ada kesepadanan katanya di Bahasa Indonesia. Entah pepatah atau peribahasa, tapi saya rasa maknanya sepertinya mirip dengan 'keledai tidak akan jatuh ke lubang yang sama dua kali"

Kenapa saya merasa begitu? Karena "once bitten" saya artikan sebagai "sekali tergigit", kemudian dilanjutkan dengan "twice shy" yang saya artikan "dua kali malu". Kalau digabungkan, bisa jadi maknanya adalah "sekali tergigit, kedua kali (tergigit), (akan merasa) malu". Kalau maknanya benar demikian, berarti ada kesan bahwa "sekali tergigit, maka berusahalah jangan sampai tergigit kedua kalinya agar tidak merasa malu. Karena kalo sampai tergigit lagi kedua kalinya, itu memalukan"

Hmm...kok mirip ya sama "keledai tidak akan jatuh ke lubang yang sama untuk kedua kalinya"? Kedelai itu pasti belajar dari pengalamannya jatuh di sebuah lubang, sehingga dari pengalaman tidak enaknya itu (jatoh), dia akan berusaha untuk tidak jatuh di lubang yang sama. Karena kalau jatoh di lubang yang sama, pasti keledai dianggap hewan yang bodoh/malu-maluin...
*ini ngartiinnya literal banget deh hahahha

Well, terlepas dari anggapan dan analisis saya, saya jadi penasaran. Sebenarnya, once bitten twice shy itu artinya atau maknanya apa sih? Saya pun akhirnya search di Google untuk cari tahu...and here are the result:

-- The phrase "once bitten, twice shy" is an idiom which means that a person who has had a bad experience one time will be more cautious the next time. 

-- A variation, "once burned, twice shy," is also traced back to "Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour."

"Once burned" was "First attested in the United States in 'Dead Sure' (1949) by S. Sterling." The meaning of the saying is "One who had an unpleasant experience is especially cautious." From the "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).

-- If somebody is said to be once bitten twice shy, it means that someone who has been hurt or who has had something go wrong will be far more careful the next time.

*sumber: http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question94604.html 

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Oke. Berarti "once bitten twice shy" itu adalah idiom yang memiliki makna bahwa seseorang yang mengalami kejadian buruk atau tidak menyenangkan akan lebih berhati-hati agar tidak mengalami kejadian serupa di kemudian hari. Sip, sudah jelas kalau begitu :D

....dan menurut saya tetap mirip dengan makna dari "keledai tidak akan jatuh ke lubang yang sama untuk kedua kalinya". Bisakah saya bilang kalau kedua kalimat/idiom/pepatah/peribahasa tersebut (saya bingung status kedua kalimat itu apaan >.<) memiliki kesepadanan makna?

_Once bitten twice shy_

_Keledai tidak akan jatuh ke lubang yang sama untuk kedua kalinya_

My Opinion on "One Day" Movie

"She made you decent. And then in return, you made her so happy.
And I will always be grateful to you for that"

-Ian

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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim,

Last night I just finished watching a movie titled "One Day" in my laptop. I got this film from one of my friend (but I forgot who exactly gave me the soft copy in my flashdisk >.<). Before watching this film, I had no idea about the genre, nor do I had the idea of the casts. During the first one minute, I thought it was a horror or thriller movie (lol)..but then I saw Anne Hathaway and guessed it must be drama or romance (those kind of genre rather attached to her image in my opinion :p)

So, without further ado, I'm going to write my opinion on the movie. Here it is.

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Movie Info

Title: One Day

Released in: August, 2011

Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Rated: PG-13 (for me, it should be 21+ hahaha)

Casts:

- Anne Hathaway (as Emma Morley)    
- Jim Sturgess (as Dexter Mayhew)

- Tom Mison (as Callum)                      
- Jodie Whittaker (as Tilly)

- Rafe Spall (as Ian)                              
- Romola Garai (as Sylvie)
- Patricia Clarkson (as Alison)

- Ken Stott (as Steven)                        

Summary and Screenshots

Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew graduated from their college on July 15th, 1988, along with their other friends which are Callum and Tilly. Surprisingly, that day was the first time Emma and Dexter decided to be friends--a lifetime bestfriends.

Friendship began at this moment

Their relations as friends continue for the next two decades, and the key moments of their stories are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives. In the film, we can see friendship, fights, hopes, laughter, missed opportunities, and tears. There are moments when Emma strives as a working-class girl of principle and ambition to get a chance to write her own book, while holding her friendship with Dexter who plays around as a charmer who fancies looking at beautiful women.

Dexter asked Emma during her working-time at the restaurant.

A charmer can't sit still near beautiful women.

Emma: "...and I will. But I have to earn a living"

As the film progress, Emma gets closer with Ian, her co-worker during her time working at the restaurant. While Dexter, on the other hand, get married to a girl named Sylvie. And somewhere along the journey of these two lifetime bestfriends, one still stays even when they apart.

My Opinion

Well. I could't give more detail as I'm afraid it will become a spoiler hehe. However, this movie has a touching end! And I just learn after watching the movie that the movie is based on a novel with the same title (p'o')p~

Basically, the movie itself is quite boring for the first-half time (in my opinion) because the romance progresses in a slow pace and the drama only happen in a small portion of a whole movie. The conflict, however, is resolved in an unexpected ways. With all the ups and downs in one career and one family relationship, this movie gives a moral lesson (for me, maybe for some others too) that you should honor and please your parents. As a child, do not do or act aimlessly that only put yourself in a disadvantage situation. Instead, you have to have a goal and have dreams to achieve then act properly to gain it. Also, spend quality time with your parents and please them as much as you can. You don't want to live in regret because you kinda ignore your parents, don't you?

Mom (Alison) said to Dexter in sadness

Dad (Steven): "I will not let you in the house"

Again, I don't wanna go into detail of the moral lesson that I learned from the best friends zone and romance aspects because it might be a spoiler but this movie is worth to watch :) If I have to rate it, though, I give it 3.5 out of 5 (because of the slow progress of the plot and the skipped / untold plot in which we have to figure out and guessed what is actually happening). Still, the ending is great as it reveals the meaning of the title and leaves an unexpected plot :)

Overall, it's a nice movie to accompany your weekend or to spend your leisure time :D