| 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—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)—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.]— |