| 释义 |
Examples:"The wine´s gone bad and it cannot be sold"—lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows ina tree—Lee Kai-Fu (1961-), Taiwanese computer scientist and IT executive, from 2005 Vice president of Google and president of Google China—lit. idly poke a stick in the mud and it grows ina tree to shade you—lit. set out and it becomes spring (idiom); effect a miracle cure (of medical operation)—you can't have your cake and eat it—habit becomes nature (idiom); get used something and it seems inevitable—hold sth back (and prevent it being known)—daring act and courageous enough to take responsibility for it—lit. sincerity splits open metal and metal (idiom); if you put your heart it, you can break up metal and rocks—Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it—(idiom) evade responsibility and push it to others—a carrying pole and the loads on it—the benevolent man cannot be rich and vice versa (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24).—withdraw (money) and retain it—stretch a hand and grab it (idiom); very easy—accept an error and adapt to it—cherish wealth and find it hard to give up (idiom); refusing to contribute to charity—grasp it and victory is assured—lit. steal a rafter and replace it with a column—be spat on in the face and let it dry by itself, not wiping it off (idiom); to turn the other cheek—face an attack and meet it—stretch a hand and grab it (idiom); easy do—lit. see the wind and assume it will rain (idiom); fig. gullible—pandeism, theological theory that God created the Universe and became one with it—have one's cake and eat it too—read and re-read sth until one is familiar with it—vague and with nothing in it—make a copy (and send it to someone)—substitute one's words for the law and abuse power to crush it (idiom); completely lawless behavior—where sth comes from and where it goes—make your bed and lie on it—resign oneself to adversity (idiom); to grin and bear it—ask for sth. and receive it—grasp sth. in the hand and beat it—lit. throw a stone and see it sink without trace in the sea [idiom.]—enjoy sth and never tire of it [idiom.]—it is easier change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character [idiom.]— |