| 释义 |
Examples:Curiosity killed the cat.—Li Gongpu (-1946), communist killed by Guomindang in Kunming in 1946—Bo Gu (1907-1946), Soviet-trained Chinese Communist, journalist and propagandist, 1930s Left adventurist, subsequently rehabilitated, killed in air crash—Shakespearean character, father of Ophelia, accidentally killed by Hamlet—the great Shaanxi earthquake of 2nd February 1556 that killed 830,000 people—be killed for a righteous cause—bloody mouth (from devouring freshly killed prey)—Tsugiyama Akira, secretary at the Japanese legation killed during the Boxer uprising—Kantō earthquake of 1923, magnitude 8.2, that killed 200,000 people in the Tokyo area—Klemens Freiherr von Ketteler, German minister killed during the Boxer uprising—Oedipus, legendary king of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother—in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license kill—kill two birds with one stone —kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money—kill people like scything flax (idiom); human life as grass—kill a pig as a lesson to the children (idiom); parents must teach by example—Myeloperoxidase (MPO), chemical in neutrophil granulocytes, used kill pathogens—lit. kill a chicken in front of a monkey; fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment) to frighten others—lit. kill the tiger and behead the scaly dragon—kill sb to prevent them from divulging a secret—lit. kill one warn a hundred (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others—human life as grass (idiom); kill people like scything grass—Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII—kill-green (a step in the processing of tea leaves)—go into battle and kill the enemy—fig. kill the goose that lays the golden eggs—imperial Chinese version of 007 licensed kill—plot and kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money—lit. kill the donkey when the grinding is done [idiom.]— |