| 释义 |
melon noun—瓜 n (almost always used) 甜瓜 n Examples:Hami melon (a variety of muskmelon)—bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)—lit. follow the vine to get to the melon—lit. replacement for soldier on leave for the melon picking season—when the melon is ripe, it falls (idiom); problems sort themselves out in the fullness of time—stem or pedicel of a melon—lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. know fluently—the umbilicus of a melon—lit. Sow melon and you get melon, sow beans and you get beans (idiom); fig. As you sow, so shall you reap.—intertwined (as melon and vine plants)—lit. don't tie your shoelaces in a melon patch, and don't adjust your hat under a plum tree [idiom.]— |