释义 |
Examples:long-grained rice (Indian rice, as opposed round-grained rice)—engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones (idiom); remember a benefactor as long as one lives—stand tall and see far (idiom); taking the long and broad view—climb mountains and wade rivers (idiom); fig. to make a long and difficult journey—long-lived people, rich harvests (idiom); stable and affluent society—one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); cut a long story short—Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution—lit. spring wind and rain (idiom); fig. the long-term influence of a solid education—We wish you long life and riches! (idiom, conventional greeting)—lit. the scholar buys a donkey (idiom); fig. long-winded verbiage that never gets the point—use a long line catch a big fish (idiom); a long-term plan for major returns—the ancestor of the long zither family, dating back pre-classical times (playing it was an essential accomplishment of a Confucian gentleman)—hard forget even after one's teeth fall out (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives—long moan and short gasp (idiom); continually moaning and groaning in pain—start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy express succinctly—Hong Kong Wetland Park, in Yuen Long, New Territories—you will make a long trip (when asking a favor that involves going a far away place)—long thread moss (Nostoc flagelliforme), an edible algae—lit. I've admired you for a long time (honorific).—Gongsun Long (c. 325-250 BC), leading thinker of the School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)—Long yang village in Hainan Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Qinghai—I have been looking forward meeting you for a long time [idiom.]—sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra—long illness makes the patient ina good doctor [idiom.]—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— |