| 释义 |
second adjective—第二 adj (almost always used)次 adjExamples:evenly rising tone, the second tone of putonghua—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—reckoned be first or second best (idiom); one of the very best—Baron George Stanton, the second-in-command of the Macartney Mission of 1793—person (first person, second person etc in grammar)—Yang Kaihui (1901-1930), Mao Zedong's second wife—Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 BC), Confucian philosopher second only Confucius—"river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus—when the mice drag a shovel, the biggest thing comes second—Mandalay, province and second city of Myanmar (Burma)—a married couple allowed dispensation have second child—posthumous name given second emperor of a dynasty—Liu Jianfeng (1936-), second governor of Hainan—Kangxi or K'ang Hsi, second Qing Emperor (1661-1722)—bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called second Taiwan strait crisis—Tampere (Swedish Tammerfors), Finland's second city—like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor—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—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—lit. unable distinguish eldest brother from second brother (idiom); they are all equally excellent—first full moon after birth (i.e. entering the second month)—used as second component of Japanese names with phonetic value -shima or -jima— |