| 释义 |
Examples:no room advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma—reveal the cloven foot (idiom); to unmask one's true nature—over-correct a defect (idiom); to over-compensate—Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates, such as pigs, cows, giraffes etc)—(of the fingers or toes) nail—pick up money and not hide it (idiom); to return property to its owner—yellow peril (offensive term referring the perceived threat to Western nations, of immigration or military expansion from East Asian nations)—the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); drive the nation to bankruptcy—lend-lease (US device provide war materiel to its allies during WW2)—perform religious ceremonies to help the soul find peace—lit. the clumsy bird flies early (idiom); fig. work hard to compensate for one's limited abilities—lock (denying access to a computer system or device or files, e.g. by password-protection)—Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates, such as horses, zebras etc)—indulge in something to one's heart's content—person hired lure customers to high-priced bars—There is always sth more learn (applied to art or learning).—What you don't want done you, don't do to others. (idiom, from the Confucian analects)—pass the misfortune on to sb else (idiom); to blame others—hard untie, hard to separate (idiom); inextricably involved—pick up what others say (idiom); to pass off other people's opinions as one's own—rook sacrifice save the king (in Chinese chess); fig. to protect a senior figure by blaming an underling—appropriate to oneself (what rightfully belongs to others)—fig. stay to look after one's elderly parents—(of an airplane etc) fall to the ground and crash—raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint—lit. return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom); fig. to make a comeback—order of odd-toed ungulate (including horse, tapir, rhinoceros)—fig. a condition giving access benefits (e.g. a diploma as a pass to a career)—a form of transit taxation in China introduced finance armies to suppress the Taiping Rebellion—reveal sth one intended to conceal through a slip of the tongue—consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future—able think of everything that needs to be thought of—love sth too much to part with it (idiom); to fondle admiringly—confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc)—submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence—go astray and to not know how to get back on the right path [idiom.]—sit and pontificate; to find answers through theory and not through practice [idiom.]—throw stones at sb. who fell down a well (idiom); to hit a person who is down— |