释义 |
Examples:fish (meaning variable: mackerel, anchovy, fresh-water fish)—give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man fish and you feed him for a lifetime—skate (cartilaginous fish belonging the family Rajidae)—percussion instrument in the form of a bamboo fish (traditionally used by Daoist priests)—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—lamprey (jawless proto-fish of family Petromyzontidae)—fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain—dishes with generous amounts of meat and fish—Croceine croaker (Pseudosciaena crocea), a fish popular in Cantonese cooking—lit. climb a tree catch a fish (idiom); fig. to attempt the impossible—lit. fish and dragons mixed in together (idiom); fig. crooks mixed in with the honest folk—lit. fish bone of a minister (idiom); fig. person one can rely on for candid criticism—clear water, so few fish (idiom); You cannot expect everyone be squeaky clean.—Epinephelinae (subfamily of Serranidae, fish family including grouper)—a food dish made from the swim bladder of fish—butchering one another as fish and flesh (idiom); killing one another—non-vegetarian food (meat, fish, spicy food etc)—use a long line catch a big fish (idiom); a long-term plan for major returns—non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)—fish and water (metaphor for an intimate relationship or inseparability)—Korean sharpbelly (fish, Hemiculter leucisculus)—fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom); fig. feel obliged to speak out candidly—lit. the fish sinks, the goose vanishes inthe distance (idiom); a letter does not arrive—guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action—a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer—Osteichthyes (taxonomic class including most fish)—classifier for groups of people, herds of animals, flocks of birds, schools of fish—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— |