| 释义 |
Examples: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.—lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter)—word and actions coincide (idiom); live up to one's word—start on virtue but give up (idiom); to fail to carry things through—Chinese set expression, often made up of 4 characters or two couplets of 4 characters each, often alluding a story or historical quotation—lit. set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch—grand scribe (official position in many Chinese states up the Han)—lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them rain—the “Four Clean-ups” Movement (1963-66), a nationwide movement clean things up in the fields of politics, economy, organization and ideology (historical)—check-up (health, car safety, environment etc)—fig. not live up to one's promises—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—fabrication relying on nothing (idiom); frame-up—live up to expectations [idiom.]—take a tonic or nourishing food to build up one's health—give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one—use old friends to climb socially (idiom); to suck up to sb—broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments)—round up to the nearest integer—lit. put up a pole and see the shadow (idiom); expect instant results—lit. go up to heaven or down to Hades; fig. whichever way, I don't care—fig. fail to live up to a boast—close up shop and cease business temporarily—see what is right and act courageously (idiom, from Analects); to stand up bravely for the truth—the master leads you the door, the rest is up to you—lit. on the beat, move apart; fig. break-up (of marriage or business partners)—don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through the end—Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank—Chinese word made up of three or more characters—make up a prescription (of herbal medicine)—lit. the time up today (idiom); up to the present—break up the whole into pieces (idiom); dealing with things one by one—everyone enjoys themselves the full then party breaks up—too weak stand up to the wind (idiom); extremely delicate—make up the number (i.e. to fill places up to a given number)—open up (to the outside)—being bright at an early age does not necessarily bring success upon growing up (proverb)—fig. try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off—dangers spring up all around (idiom); surrounded by perils—line up (to arrange in a straight line)—lit. set up the sacred tripods (following Yu the Great)—Fuzhou Naval College, a.k.a. Foochow Naval Dockyard School, set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty—lit. all birds paying looking up the phoenix; fig. peace under a wise ruler—Serbia and Montenegro (after break-up of Yugoslavia in 1992)—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—curry favor (idiom); playing up to those in power—writing up of official or judicial documents—build up one's health (through exercise, nutrition etc)—become caught up in an irresolvable situation [idiom.]—fail to live up (to expectations)— |