| 释义 |
Examples:Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), Mao's attempt modernize China's economy, which resulted in economic devastation, and millions of deaths from famine caused by misguided policies—the death of a thousand cuts (old form of capital punishment)—light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); of no consequence one person, a matter of life or death to another—dates of birth and death (of historical figure)—the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)—one who does not fear the death of thousand cuts will dare unhorse the emperor (proverb)—Zhao Ziyang (1919-2005), PRC reforming politician, general secretary of Chinese Communist Party 1987-1989, held under house arrest from 1989 his death, and non-person since then— |