释义 |
Examples:three-legged Golden Crow that lives in the sun (in northeast Asian and Chinese mythology)—sage Emperors Shun and Yao rule every day (idiom); all for the best in the best of all possible worlds—percussion instrument in the form of a bamboo fish (traditionally used by Daoist priests)—lit. easy dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom); it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies—lit. clasp the Buddha's feet when danger arises (idiom); fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble—Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC—lit. heard in the morning and changed by the evening—the "human way", one of the stages in the cycle of reincarnation (Buddhism)—stop in the middle of sth—Pontius Pilate (in the Biblical passion story)—surge up (of acid in the stomach)—paint a dragon and dot in the eyes (idiom); fig. to add the vital finishing touch—familiarity in the public consciousness—the hundreds place (or column) in the decimal system—in the fullness of time a major figure will develop ina pillar of the state—Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution—title of the temporary position in the Hanlin Academy, conferred meritorious candidates until the next examination—wish for higher status (idiom); to curry favor in the hope of promotion—Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing)—God the Son (in the Christian Trinity)—Voronezh, city in the southwest of European Russia—not know whether to believe (what one reads in the news)—In the sky be two birds flying wing to wing, on earth to be two trees with branches intertwined—a popular form of narrative literature flourishing in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with alternate prose and rhymed parts for recitation and singing (often on Buddhist themes)—lit. shade in the clouds to offset the moon (idiom); fig. a foil—please return (an item sent in the mail)—form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty—Kantō earthquake of 1923, magnitude 8.2, that killed 200,000 people in the Tokyo area—lit. rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom); fig. to act in the nick of time—Yumen Pass, or Jade Gate, western frontier post on the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, west of Dunhuang, in Gansu—(usually used in the negative) have the possibility of—lit. retreat three day's march (idiom); fig. to give way in the face of superior strength—Hengelo, city in the Netherlands—Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition—lit. like a candle in the wind, or frost on the roof [idiom.]—the whole year must be planned for in the spring [idiom.]—classifier for people working in the same domain—never before in the whole of history [idiom.]—know that one is in the wrong [idiom.]—classifier for long, narrow, flexible objects such as fish, dogs, pants; for roads and rivers; for human lives; in the expression: one heart, meaning working together for a common goal—be calm and unruffled in the midst of chaos or at a busy time [idiom.]—(live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss—The good things in life are worth waiting for—drift (cornering technique in car racing, lit. throw the tail)—League of Nations (1920-1946), based in Geneva, precursor of the UN—Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914), heir the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I—pay bride-price (payment to the bride's family in former times)—Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed in240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical—Kaesong or Gaeseong 개성시 city in southwest North Korea, close the border with South Korea and a special economic zone for South Korean companies—Langyuan paradise, home of the immortals in verse and legends—condition or dye the hair using hair treatment product in conjunction with a hair steamer—meetings conducted by rulers in feudal China for the purpose of formalizing alliances, finalizing treaties— |