| 释义 |
Examples:war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters—hereditary title bestowed on Confucius' descendants—Internet troll (agent provocateur on forums etc)—by the window (referring seats on a plane etc)—Lawpita Falls on the Balu Chaung river, location of Myanmar's biggest hydroelectric plant—passed on from generation generation (idiom); to hand down—satisfied with one's accomplishment and arrogant as a result (idiom); resting on one's laurels and despising others—lit. a pair of mythical birds who depend on each other—Chinese Buddhist school founded on the Buddhavatamsaka-mahavaipulya Sutra (Garland sutra)—keep on saying (idiom); to repeat over and over again—the seat of the Law, on which the one who explains the doctrine is seated (Buddhism)—division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor—rifling (spiral lines on inside of gun barrel imparting spin the bullet)—On the correct handling of internal contradictions among the people, Mao Zedong's tract of 1957—old: reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one's word—Yeonpyeong island on Yellow Sea coast of Korea—appoint the virtuous and use the able (idiom); appointment on the basis of ability and integrity—bestow a surname (of emperor conferring favor on ethnic group)—capture an image displayed on a computer screen—Emeryville, town on San Fransico bay, California—"village-certificated house", residence supposedly only transferable other village residents but often sold on the open market—obsequiously bequeath favors on behalf of another—chord (straight line joining two points on a curve)—lit. whoever hung the bell on the tiger's neck must untie it (idiom); fig. whoever started the trouble should end it—faint from stress (during exam, on stage etc)—feel guilty as a thief (idiom); to have sth on one's conscience—acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old)—lit. see one spot on a leopard (idiom); fig. a restricted view—fillet beef teppanyaki (fast grilled on hot iron plate)—lit. on the beat, together now (idiom); Start dancing!—leveraging (i.e. buying shares on borrowed funds)—Pomerania, a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea—hit home on the evils of the day (idiom); fig. to hit a current political target—rely on natural barriers (for one's defense)—(resist the enemy) relying on inaccessible territory—corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead—the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence—shuttle bus ferrying passengers between train stations on two different rail lines— |