| 释义 |
Examples:traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone—the early Ming (i.e. from second half of 14th century)—the second (day, time etc)—fifty second year B4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1975 or 2035—forty second year B6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1965 or 2025—thirty second year B8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1955 or 2015—the second child or brother (or sister)—Baron George Stanton, the second-in-command of the Macartney Mission of 1793—"river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus—withdraw to the second line of duty—Kul Tigin or Kultegin (685-c. 731), general of the Second Turkic Kaganate—the Second (of numbered kings)—marry for the second time—know the first, but not know the second (idiom); only partial information—the Arrow (a Hong Kong registered ship involved in historical incident in 1856 used as pretext for the second Opium War)—Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans—The Second Sex (book by Simone de Beauvoir)—the Arrow incident of 1856 (used as pretext for the second Opium War)—Catherine the Great or Catherine the Second (1684-1727), Empress of Russia—twenty second year B10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2005 or 2065—saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part—imaginary heavenly body occupying the second focus of the moon's elliptic orbit—first full moon after birth (i.e. entering the second month)—evenly rising tone, the second tone of putonghua—Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi, the PRC's second most numerous ethnic group—reckoned be first or second best (idiom); one of the very best—second month (of the lunar year)—Second epistle of St Paul the Corinthians—second year B2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1985 or 2045—Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces—candidate who came second in the Han-lin examination—Second epistle of St Paul the Thessalonians—Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1807 by H.W. Olbers—second of the five night watch periods 21:00-23:00 (old)—déjà vu (the experience of seeing exactly the same situation a second time)— |