释义 |
Examples:purge of counter-revolutionary elements (esp. Stalin's purges of the 1930 and Mao's purges 1955-57)—sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion—South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands—lit. a chicken and a bottle of wine (idiom); fig. ready make an offering to the deceased, or to entertain guests—the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor—we (including both the speaker and the person spoken to)—the Ma clique of warlords in Gansu and Ningxia during the 1930s and 1940s—purge of counter-revolutionaries (esp. Stalin's purges of the 1930 and Mao's purges 1955-57)—Yongdingmen, front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall, torn down in the 1950s and reconstructed in 2005—Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then President of the World Uighur Congress—be flexible and take advantage of the situation—three-legged Golden Crow that lives in the sun (in northeast Asian and Chinese mythology)—Pamir high plateau on the border between Xinjiang and Tajikistan—refers German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)—lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others—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—the beasts of the field and the birds of the air—Andrija Mohorovichich or Mohorovičić (1857-1936), Croatian geologist and seismologist who discovered the Mohorovichich discontinuity or Moho—the Yellow River is clear and the sea is calm—disturbing the privacy of bridal room (Chinese custom where guests banter with and play pranks on the newlyweds)—burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day—a carrying pole and the loads on it—The issue is in the past, and the situation has changed (idiom).—lit. kicking up the dust and breaking the harness—Mikhail Prokhorov (1965-), Russian billionaire and owner of the Brooklyn Nets (NBA team)—the imperial court and the ordinary people—try this, that and the other—look after the elderly and the young—hang on to and serve the rich and powerful by literary hack work etc—Kaesong or Gaeseong 개성 city in southwest North Korea, close the border with South Korea and a special economic zone for South Korean companies—the tissue between the skin and the flesh—(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state—confrontation of 1929 between Chiang Kaishek and the Guangxi warlord faction—Communication University of China (CUC), the highest institute of radio, film and television education in China—Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin—in fiction, bogus eunuch and the consort of king Ying Zheng's mother lady Zhao—the police and the people (usually in opposition)—(expr.) hold the feudal overlord and you control his vassals—eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according the body (idiom); to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure—Hispaniola (Caribbean island including Haiti and the Dominican Republic)—determine the root of a word by removing prefix and suffix—Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed in240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical—The Mass Line, Communist Party of China (CPC) policy aimed at broadening and cultivating contacts with the masses—Nguyen An (1381-1453), aka Ruan An, Vietnamese architect and engineer, principal designer of the Forbidden City—fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods)—lit. invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately—lit. the mountains crumble and the trees lie ruined—Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty—the prosecution and the defense (law)—family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned—a person harmful the country and the people—where the wind and the waves are the fiercest—lit. fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind (idiom); fig. needless fears—suitable for both the young and the old—the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken—fig. the man sings and the woman follows—Tyrrhenian Sea between Sardinia and the Italian mainland—rarities from the mountain and the sea (idiom); fig. a sumptuous spread of food delicacies—Cyrus the Great (ca. 600-530 BC), the founder of the Persian Empire and the conqueror of Babylon—Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Tw)—weigh the pros and the cons—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— |