| 释义 |
Examples:lit. Train an army for a thousand days use it for an hour. (idiom); fig. extensive preparation eventually pays off—lit. Train an army for a thousand days use it for one morning. (idiom); fig. extensive preparation eventually pays off—(fig.) keep (a spy, lackey etc) in one's pay—pay bride-price (payment to the bride's family in former times)—outward devotion but inner opposition (idiom); pay lip service—pay every ten days, give tribute every month (idiom); incessant and ever more complicated demands—lose money instead of being paid (i.e. sb should pay me, but is actually taking my money)—pay tribute that a vassal owes to his suzerain—pay one's respects by bowing with hands in front of one's chest clasping joss sticks, or with palms pressed together—pay careful attention to one's parents' funerary rites—return to one's parents' home to pay respects— |