释义 |
Examples:fish (meaning variable: mackerel, anchovy, fresh-water fish)—skate (cartilaginous fish belonging the family Rajidae)—percussion instrument in the form of a bamboo fish (traditionally used by Daoist priests)—lit. the fish and the bear's paw, you can't have both at the same time (idiom, from Mencius); fig. you must choose one or the other—lamprey (jawless proto-fish of family Petromyzontidae)—fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain—lit. climb a tree catch a fish (idiom); fig. to attempt the impossible—lit. fish and dragons mixed in together (idiom); fig. crooks mixed in with the honest folk—lancelet (Branchiostoma lanceolatum), a primitive fish—lit. fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb)—clear water, so few fish (idiom); You cannot expect everyone be squeaky clean.—like a fish back in water (idiom); glad be back in one's proper surroundings—a food dish made from the swim bladder of fish—notochord (internal skeletal rod in primitive fish)—butchering one another as fish and flesh (idiom); killing one another—fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy—Lates calcarifer (a species of catadromous fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes)—non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)—fish and water (metaphor for an intimate relationship or inseparability)—Korean sharpbelly (fish, Hemiculter leucisculus)—slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon—fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom); fig. feel obliged to speak out candidly—any ray (fish) variety of Myliobatiformes order—hand roll (Japanese: temaki, style of fish cuisine)—lit. the fish sinks, the goose vanishes inthe distance (idiom); a letter does not arrive—guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action—classifier for groups of people, herds of animals, flocks of birds, schools of fish—classifier for long, narrow, flexible objects such as fish, dogs, pants; for roads and rivers; for human lives; in the expression: one heart, meaning working together for a common goal— |