| 释义 |
Examples:erroneously called Chinese pearl barley—call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it—sometimes called mutually explanatory character—also called significative or radical—also called Mount Kailash—also called phonetic loan—called Port Arthur during Russian occupation and Russian-Japanese war of 1905—also called directly governed city—also called Buddhavatamsaka-mahavaipulya Sutra, the Flower adornment sutra or the Garland sutra—sometimes called hieroglyph—Achang also called Ngac'ang or Maingtha (ethnic group)—formerly called lake Rezaiyeh—also called Jehanne Darc, the Maid or Orleans, Joan of Arc or St Joan—also called fruit of argyi wormwood—Bao'an, also called Bonan (ethnic group)—that's why it is called...—also called five-paced viper (i.e. can grow five paces)—Hundred Flowers Campaign (PRC, 1956-57), in which Mao called for the taboo on discussing mistakes of the CCP be lifted—also called dimethyl dichloro-vinyl phosphate DDVP—Arab League, regional organization of Arab states in Southwest Asia, and North and Northeast Africa, officially called the League of Arab States—School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), also called the School of Names—Mahmoud Abbas (1935-), also called Abu Mazen, Palestinian leader, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 2005—formerly called Oxus by Greek and Western writers, and Gihon by medieval Islamic writers—also called Tomb of the Unknown Soldier—Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry—also called barrenwort or horny goatweed (said resemble crushed goat's testicles)—bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called second Taiwan strait crisis—Muzha (old spelling, Mucha), was a district in Taipei City merged with Jingmei is now called Wenshan—Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row—Insult me if you want, I don't care what you call me.—counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action—send a telegram or make a telephone call here (i.e. to the speaker)—invite the talented and call the valorous (idiom); recruit talent—lit. call the fire burn the grass (idiom); to cause a quarrel by provocation—one command brings a hundred responses (idiom); having hundreds of attendants at one's beck and call—call in (to a broadcast program) (loanword) (Taiwan)—always be there for sb at their beck and call—switch hook (button or cradle of a telephone, whose function is disconnect the call)—take a deer and call it a horse (idiom); deliberate inversion of the truth—call loudly (idiom); to get people's attention—call to come and shout to go (idiom); to yell orders—call the wind and summon the rain (idiom); to exercise magical powers— |