释义 |
Examples:lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers—titer (measure of effective concentration in virology or chemical pathology, defined in terms of potency after dilution by titration)—Heian Period (794-1192), period of Japanese history ruled by Kyoimperial court—separated in time (usu. followed by a quantity of time)—kill a pig as a lesson to the children (idiom); parents must teach by example—I, me (humble term used by men in public speech)—raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom); success or failure depends solely on one individual—fig. by the barrowload (i.e. lots and lots)—folk theater consisting of recitation accompanied by clapper board rhythm—replaced by Qamdo, Zhag'yab and Jomdo counties in 1999—shallow orthography (governed by simple rules)—the Shanghai coup of 12th Mar 1927 by Chiang Kai-shek against the communists—infant's part in opera, usually played by child actor—(old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation)—The Second Sex (book by Simone de Beauvoir)—haloalkane (obtained from hydrocarbon by substituting halogen for hydrogen, e.g. chlorobenzene or the CFCs)—the Strawberry Generation (Taiwanese term, often sarcastic, for those born between 1980 and 1991, well off and influenced by advertising)—the family... (when preceded by a family name)—infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms)—arrow used as a token of authority (by field commanders)—break up the whole into pieces (idiom); dealing with things one by one—Zulfikar Ali Bhut(1928-1979), president of Pakistan 1971-1979 executed by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq—a thousand tries leads one success (idiom, humble expr.); Even without any notable ability on my part, I may still get it right sometimes by good luck.—(of Chinese pronunciation) a vowel followed by a nasal consonant—overwhelmed by favor from superior (humble expr.)—Mt Gangdisê (6656m) in southwest Tibet, revered by Tibetans as the center of the universe—dash on bravely with no thought of personal safety (idiom); undaunted by dangers—infectation by parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides—lit. abandoned by men and choked with weeds—in sequence, step by step (idiom); make steady progress incrementally—Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA.—lit. swell one's face up by slapping it to look imposing (idiom); to seek to impress by feigning more than one's abilities—one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth)—rivers pour away by the day (idiom); going from bad worse—accept one's situation as dictated by heaven [idiom.]—an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy [idiom.]— |