| 释义 |
Examples:lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation—sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion—Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down—passed on from generation generation (idiom); to hand down—invert (upside-down, inside-out, back-to-front, white to black etc)—count backwards (from 10 down to 0)—be able to put (sth) down—holocene system (geological strata laid down during the last 12000 years)—lit. clouds scatter, wind flows (idiom); the crisis settles down—lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them rain—Aleutian islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down Kamtchatka)—court crown beneath straw shoe (idiom); everything turned upside-down—raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom); success or failure depends solely on one individual—East Pacific rise (a mid-oceanic ridge stretching from California down Antarctica)—pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway—be willing to take things lying down—grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task—lit. reputation will go down in history (idiom); fig. achievements will earn eternal glory—angle of dip (inclination of a geological plane down from horizontal)—lit. pull down the east wall repair the west wall (idiom); fig. temporary expedient—(old) stones that can be rolled down onan attacking enemy—cut a text down to size for publication—Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985—elegant, almond-shaped eyes with the inner canthus pointing down and the outer canthus up, like the eye of a phoenix—wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously—I appreciate your kindness (conventional reply turn down an offer)—lit. rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius); to save the people from dire straits—lit. go up to heaven or down to Hades; fig. whichever way, I don't care—a compendium of documents in various styles, making up the oldest extant texts of Chinese history, from legendary times down the times of Confucius—write down (i.e. to decrease the expected value of a loan)—bristles lying down (brush movement in painting)—laborers who carry cargo up and down the mountains on shoulder poles—lit. wind flows, clouds scatter (idiom); the crisis settles down—the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, down)—pass down (to lower level)—emphasize down to last detail (idiom); to show every possible consideration—up here, down there (idiom); rise and fall in succession—put down weapon and let soldiers rest (idiom); to relax from fighting—Yongdingmen, front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall, torn down in the 1950s and reconstructed in 2005—handed down in a direct line from the founder—pass down to a lower unit—throw stones at sb. who fell down a well (idiom); to hit a person who is down—close down a business for good and put the best face on it [idiom.]— |