释义 |
Examples:fish (meaning variable: mackerel, anchovy, fresh-water fish)—skate (cartilaginous fish belonging the family Rajidae)—percussion instrument in the form of a bamboo fish (traditionally used by Daoist priests)—lit. the fish and the bear's paw, you can't have both at the same time (idiom, from Mencius); fig. you must choose one or the other—lamprey (jawless proto-fish of family Petromyzontidae)—fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain—"flying fish family", family who sacrifice everything send their children abroad to study—lit. abyss and marsh, meeting place of fish and beast—the fish hold (of a fishing vessel)—Croceine croaker (Pseudosciaena crocea), a fish popular in Cantonese cooking—lit. fish and dragons mixed in together (idiom); fig. crooks mixed in with the honest folk—lit. fish bone of a minister (idiom); fig. person one can rely on for candid criticism—lancelet (Branchiostoma lanceolatum), a primitive fish—lit. fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb)—clear water, so few fish (idiom); You cannot expect everyone be squeaky clean.—like a fish back in water (idiom); glad be back in one's proper surroundings—a food dish made from the swim bladder of fish—notochord (internal skeletal rod in primitive fish)—butchering one another as fish and flesh (idiom); killing one another—Lates calcarifer (a species of catadromous fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes)—non-vegetarian food (meat, fish, spicy food etc)—Korean sharpbelly (fish, Hemiculter leucisculus)—slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon—fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom); fig. feel obliged to speak out candidly—hand roll (Japanese: temaki, style of fish cuisine)—lit. the fish sinks, the goose vanishes inthe distance (idiom); a letter does not arrive—guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action—a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer—Osteichthyes (taxonomic class including most fish)—classifier for groups of people, herds of animals, flocks of birds, schools of fish—classifier for long, narrow, flexible objects such as fish, dogs, pants; for roads and rivers; for human lives; in the expression: one heart, meaning working together for a common goal— |