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分享一个知识点： Reader question: What does the phrase “best of both worlds” mean exactly? My comments: If means if you’re buying a pair of shoes, you can have them for the best quality at the lowest price. Or something like that. When people have the best of both worlds, they have two improbably things at the same time, two things that are seemingly contradictory to each other. The ancient philosopher Mencius once said (I’m paraphrasing): “Fish is what I want to have for dinner and bear’s feet also. But if I can’t have both, I would like to have bear’s feet for a change. “Life is what I want to have and justice also. But if I can’t have both, I’d give up my life in order to sustain justice.” Very well said, no? Thing is, if someone said you can have both fish and bear’s feet for dinner today for lunch but you’d have to run 10 kilometers to fetch them, I bet you wouldn’t mind running to get them on bare foot. That way, you’d be having the best of both worlds. That is, without making any compromise. By the way, in Mencius’ time, more then two millenniums in the past, bears, though rare, were not an endangered animal as they are today. So therefore you perhaps can bear with contemporaries of Mencius targeting bears for food. Anyways, here are media examples of “best of both worlds”: | 
