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Examples:sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion—cow and famous steed at the same trough (idiom); fig. the common and the great are treated alike—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—Kingstown, capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines—the beasts of the field and the birds of the air—the sick and the wounded—the warbler sings and the swallow dances—the wolf runs and the wild boar rushes (idiom); crowds of evil-doers mill around like wild beasts—respect the wise and venerate the worthy (idiom); to honor the great and the good—a carrying pole and the loads on it—lit. let the big cup fly and the small cup walk—a clash between the police and the people—the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord government of China—lit. pull one hair and the whole body moves—animosity or resentment towards three groups (the bureaucrats, the wealthy, and the police) due perceived abuse of power—the tissue between the skin and the flesh—we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to)—choroid (vascular layer of the eyeball between the retina and the sclera)—Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin—Theravada, the primary Buddhism, as spread Sri Lanka and South-East Asia—favorable geographical and social conditions (idiom); good location and the people satisfied—elegant, almond-shaped eyes with the inner canthus pointing down and the outer canthus up, like the eye of a phoenix—Five Dynasties (in different contexts, from mythology through Han and the interregnum between Han and Tang)—Hispaniola (Caribbean island including Haiti and the Dominican Republic)—Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed in240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical—appoint the virtuous and use the able (idiom); appointment on the basis of ability and integrity—the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods—sun, moon and the five visible planets—name for the silver coin and the main currency in Bohemia from 16th-18th century—Dutch studies (study of Europe and the world in premodern Japan)—Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945—lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow—where the wind and the waves are the fiercest—lit. fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind (idiom); fig. needless fears—the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken—rarities from the mountain and the sea (idiom); fig. a sumptuous spread of food delicacies—Wuchang Uprising of October 10th, 1911, which led Sun Yat-sen's Xinhai Revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty—Cyrus the Great (ca. 600-530 BC), the founder of the Persian Empire and the conqueror of Babylon—there is a wide gap between the nobility and the common people [idiom.]—the country weakened and the people empoverished [idiom.]—Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Tw)—One careless move and the whole game is lost. [idiom.]—lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers—speak forcefully and with justice (idiom); to argue with the courage of one's convictions—Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it—reverberates around the rafters (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)—Gabriel Mouton (1618-1694), French clergyman and scientist, pioneer of the metric system—Wen Zhong (-467 BC), adviser the state of Yue during Spring and Autumn period—Shi Lang (1621-1696), Chinese admiral who served under the Ming and Qing Dynasties—(old) visit various rulers and promote one's political ideas (in the Warring States period)—the Ma clique of warlords in Gansu and Ningxia during the 1930s and 1940s—a popular form of narrative literature flourishing in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with alternate prose and rhymed parts for recitation and singing (often on Buddhist themes)—Li Dazhao (1889-1927), early Chinese Marxist and founding member of the communist party—kneel three times and kowtow nine times (formal etiquette on meeting the emperor)—Sun Ce (175-200), general and major warlord of the Later Han Dynasty—ancient ceramic three-legged vessel used for cooking with cord markings on the outside and hollow legs—Warren Buffett (1930-), the Sage of Omaha, US investor and philanthropist, principal owner of holding company Berkshire Hathaway—leave office for a high and distant place (idiom); to retire and place oneself above the fray—Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition—the three Punic wars (264-146 BC) between Rome and Carthage—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—lit. breakfast in the morning and supper in the evening [idiom.]— |