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Examples:lit. examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth—the storm put strong grass the test (idiom); fig. troubled times test a faithful minister—get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate—the beasts of the field and the birds of the air—the wolf runs and the wild boar rushes (idiom); crowds of evil-doers mill around like wild beasts—the final years of the Ch'ing or Qing dynasty—(soccer, handball etc) kick or shoot the ball towards the goal—(classifier for the ordinal number of a crop, in the context of multiple harvests)—a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956—You can't compare the present with the past.—lit. the dragon-fly shakes the stone tower (idiom); fig. overestimate one's capabilities—The person on the spot is baffled, the onlooker sees clear (idiom). The onlooker sees more of the game.—form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty—death cannot wipe out the crimes (idiom); dreadful crimes that rankled even after the perpetrator is dead—Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition—The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. [idiom.]—Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC), mythical leader who tamed the floods—lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers—ravenous wolves hold the road (idiom); wicked people in power—Siddhartha Gautama (563-485 BC), the historical Buddha and founder of Buddhism—Oceanus, Titan God of the seas before Poseidon—inversion (rhetoric device of inverting the word order for heightened effect)—Jiuyi mountain range in Hunan on the border with Guangdong—respecting noble talent while protecting the common people—Nanling mountain, on the border of Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi—fig. forge ahead in the face of hardships and danger—lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)—Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)—Telegu, the official language of Andhra Pradesh, India—birth name of Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)—with familiarity you learn the trick (idiom); practice makes perfect—Grand View Garden, a garden in Dream of the Red Chamber—Shang Tang (1646-? BC), legendary founder of the Shang Dynasty—wrap one's arm around (used to describe the girth of a tree trunk)—Garden of Gethsemane (in the Christian passion story)—Taihang Mountains on the border between Hebei and Shanxi—classifier for people working in the same domain—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— |