| 释义 |
Examples:sale of second-hand goods—fifty second year B4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1975 or 2035—thirty second year B8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1955 or 2015—reign name of second Ming emperor, reigned 1398-1402, deposed in 1402 (mysterious disappearance is ongoing conspiracy theory)—Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces—the Second (of numbered kings)—reign name of second Qing emperor (1644-1662)—twenty second year B10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2005 or 2065—second wife (of a widower)—evenly rising tone, the second tone of putonghua—Second epistle of St John—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—the early Ming (i.e. from second half of 14th century)—Second epistle of St Paul the Corinthians—Second book of Chronicles—second year B2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1985 or 2045—Baron George Stanton, the second-in-command of the Macartney Mission of 1793—second quarter (of financial year)—auntie, second eldest of sisters in mother's family—"river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus—second round (of a match or election)—second section of large intestine—withdraw to the second line of duty—Second epistle of St Paul the Thessalonians—lit. see a gap and stick in a needle (idiom); fig. to make use of every second and every inch—a second crop obtained by rotation of land—Herz (Hz) or cycles per second, unit of frequency—reticulum (second stomach of ruminants, with honeycomb pattern)—Mandalay, province and second city of Myanmar (Burma)—Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans—posthumous name given second emperor of a dynasty—Liu Jianfeng (1936-), second governor of Hainan—bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called second Taiwan strait crisis—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—imaginary heavenly body occupying the second focus of the moon's elliptic orbit—second of the five night watch periods 21:00-23:00 (old)—déjà vu (the experience of seeing exactly the same situation a second time)—used as second component of Japanese names with phonetic value -shima or -jima— |