| 释义 |
Examples:third-wheel or unwanted third party spoiling a couple's date (slang)—lit. sandpiper and clam war together (and the fisherman catches both, idiom); fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out a third party—fifty-third year C5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1976 or 2036—He Zizhen (1910-1984), Mao Zedong's third wife—twenty third year C11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2006 or 2066—third category movie (containing sexual or violent content)—third year C3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1986 or 2046—third day of the lunar year (inauspicious for visits because arguments happen easily on that day)—Three Sovereigns, between Gods and Emperors in third millennium BC—Haiti, the western third of Caribbean island Hispaniola—document guaranteeing the words or actions of a third party (old)—forty third year C7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1966 or 2026—third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old)—dinner party given on the third day after the birth of a baby (traditional)—lit. a short-cut crush Guo (idiom); fig. to connive with sb to damage a third party, then turn on the partner—thirty-third year C9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1956 or 2016—third and fourth lines (in an eight-line poem) which form a couplet—Ruan Chongwu (1933-), third governor of Hainan—neap tide (the smallest tide, when moon is at first or third quarter)—red-painted eggs, traditional celebratory gift on third day after birth of new baby—candidate who came third in the Han-lin examination—uneven tone (the third tone of classical Chinese)—execute the whole family unto the third generation—auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family—Asa (?-870 BC), third king of Judah and fifth king of the House of David (Judaism)—ASHIKAGA Yoshimitsu (1358-1408), third Ashikaga shōgun, reigned 1368-1394—final month of spring (i.e. third month of lunar calendar)—Paris Commune 1871, an unsuccessful proletarian uprising against the French Third Republic—lit. sandpiper and clam war together and the fisherman catches both (idiom); fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out a third party— |