| 释义 |
Examples:Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China—lamprey (jawless proto-fish of family Petromyzontidae)—think highly of oneself (idiom); giving oneself airs—continental slope (boundary of continental shelf)—Ediacaran (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era—the three gods in charge of heaven, earth and water (Daoism)—round neck (of pull-over garment, e.g. T-shirt)—voice breaking (of male opera singer in puberty)—Hang Seng index (of Hong Kong stock market)—administrative subdivision (e.g. of provinces incounties)—Nyingchi prefecture of Tibet, Tibetan: Nying khri, Chinese Linzhi—Chinese skullcap resembling the skin of half a watermelon—bull market (i.e. period of rising share prices)—miscellany of writing from the Western Han (former Han)—London University School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)—inflammation of the mucous lining of the mouth—Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office (State Council, of PRC)—Liang Xiang (1919-1989), first governor of Hainan—fig. spark off (hopes, controversy, flames of revolution)—Jialing river in Sichuan (a tributary of the Yangtze)—the Benglong (Penglung) ethnic group of Yunnan—medial (i.e. middle vowel of a syllable in Asian phonetics)—Lien Chan (1936-), Taiwanese politician, former vice-president and chairman of Guomintang—able think of everything that needs to be thought of—fetch the moon out of the sea (idiom); a hopeless illusion—name of states in Southern China at different historical periods—classifier for groups of people, herds of animals, flocks of birds, schools of fish—classifier for stories of buildings; layers of cakes, paint, thin glass—classifier for groups of domesticated animals like pigs, cows; hair (only with modifier)—classifier for piles of things, such as trash or sand—classifier for small objects, such as a grain of rice—classifier for sections of plants such as bamboo or sugarcane; tree branches; class periods at school; cylindrical batteries, train carriages—classifier for gusts or bursts; for events of short duration such as lightning, storms, wind—classifier used when saying: types or kinds of sth.—classifier for cans of beverages, such as soda or beer—classifier for objects in a handheld bottle, vial, or flask, such a bottle of water—classifier for bagfuls of things, such as flour or cement—classifier for chunks, lumps, or pieces of land, stones, cake, bread, candy, tofu; wristwatches—classifier for pairs of objects which naturally come in pairs such as chopsticks or shoes— |