| 释义 |
Examples:lit. three ignorant cobblers add up a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom—ride to take up an official appointment (idiom); to take on a job with alacrity—You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up.—word and actions coincide (idiom); live up to one's word—lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others—Chinese set expression, often made up of 4 characters or two couplets of 4 characters each, often alluding a story or historical quotation—something be taken up later in speech or writing—"urban dependence disease" (sufferers are unwilling give up city comforts and return to the countryside)—lit. set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch—lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them rain—lit. the more you touch things up, the darker they get—pick up money and not hide it (idiom); to return property to its owner—the “Four Clean-ups” Movement (1963-66), a nationwide movement clean things up in the fields of politics, economy, organization and ideology (historical)—lit. kicking up the dust and breaking the harness—sing opera music (without staging or make up)—lit. use others' strengths make up for one's weak points (idiom from Mencius)—hang up properly (telephone, picture, clothes etc)—north China army, a modernizing Western-style army set up during late Qing, and a breeding ground for the Northern Warlords after the Qinghai revolution—shut oneself up and ponder over one's mistakes—esterase, enzyme that breaks up esters by hydrolysis—back sb up from the sidelines (in an argument)—broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments)—lit. let the tiger return to the mountain; fig. to store up future calamities—go back to sleep (instead of rising up in the morning)—(idiom) talk in a roundabout way to cover up the truth—set up on high (idiom); not in touch with reality—give up one's private interests for the public good (idiom); to behave altruistically—think tank (committee set up study a problem)—dangers spring up all around (idiom); surrounded by perils—benefit from each other's strengths and make up each other's shortfalls—genuine photograph (not set up or doctored)—hold up buttocks and praise a fart (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants—surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc)—North China Incident of October-December 1935, a Japanese attempt set up a puppet government in north China—the name does not correspond reality (idiom); it doesn't live up to its reputation—put on a rival show (idiom); to set oneself up against sb—band used by Manchu women gather up the hair—lit. try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it [idiom.]— |