| 释义 |
Examples:mortise (slot cut inwood to receive a tenon)—cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch—lit. liver and guts cut pieces (idiom); broken hearted—lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. destroy root and branch—chunks obtained by repeatedly cutting a vegetable diagonally and rotating the vegetable after each cut—lit. cut all at one stroke (idiom); to impose uniformity—lit. feel as if one's intestines have been cut short—fig. there is no clear-cut distinction between food and medicine—lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. cut off one's nose to spite one's face—lit. never taking a short-cut (idiom); fig. upright and honest—one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); cut a long story short—a kite with cut string (idiom); fig. gone beyond recall—see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom); extremely skilled—cut the feet to fit the shoes (idiom); to force sth to fit (as to a Procrustean bed)—Cantonese poached chicken, known as "white cut chicken"—lit. a short-cut crush Guo (idiom); fig. to connive with sb to damage a third party, then turn on the partner—sachima, sweet (Manchu) pastry made of fried strips of dough coated with syrup, pressed together, then cut inblocks—"Lolita", a young, cute girl—eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according the body (idiom); to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure—cut one's hair (as part of a minority ritual or in order to become a monk)—fig. cute and helpless-looking—lit. take meaning from cut segment (idiom); to interpret out of context—lit. break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat—cut or smash the kneecaps as corporal punishment—cut flesh from one's thigh to nourish a sick parent [idiom.]— |