| 释义 |
Examples:lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others—cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch—liquorice (Sophora flavescens), with roots used in TCM—lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. destroy root and branch—bank up the roots of plants—starchy tuber on roots of plants—intertwined (of tree roots or branches)—heap soil around the roots of a plant—recount history but omit one's ancestors (idiom); to forget one's roots—a falling leaf returns the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home—lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another—small-flowered milkwort (Polygala arvensis Willd. or P. telephioides), with roots used in Chinese medicine—milkwort (Polygala myrtifolia), with roots used in Chinese medicine—flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye—twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky—roots or stems of plants—dig up roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth—lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow—roots (inextricably attached the plant)—fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return their roots (proverb)—weeds that regrow from cut-down roots—lit. a falling leaf returns the roots [idiom.]—lit. examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth—Sichuan codonopsis (Codonopsis pilosula, root used in TCM)—Ampelopsis japonica (creeper with root used in TCM)—root out the strong and support the weak (idiom); to rob the rich and give to the poor—Dioscorea alata (Kinampay or aromatic purple yam, a sweet root crop)—manyprickle (Acanthopanax senticosus), root used in TCM—root out the strong and give people peace (idiom); to rob the rich and give to the poor—treat only the symptoms but not the root cause—yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus), a vine with sweet edible root—fundamental theorem of algebra (every polynomial has a complex root)—branch, esp. grass root branches of a political party—root of herbaceous peony (Paeonia lactiflora), used in TCM—determine the root of a word by removing prefix and suffix—morinda root (Morinda officinalis), plant used in Chinese medicine—algebraic expression involving a square root or other irrationality—square (as in square foot, square mile, square root)—treat the symptoms rather than getting to the root of the problem (proverb)—lit. invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect—Lithospermum erythrorhizon (flowering plant whose root provides red purple dye)—discriminant (e.g. b^2-4ac in the formula for the root of a quadratic equation)—Achyranthes bidentata (root used in Chinese medicine)—red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon)— |