| 释义 |
Examples:Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.—double expulsion (from the party and from the administrative post, as a punishment for corruption)—escape from the abyss of suffering—thunder from a clear sky (idiom); a bolt from the blue—beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another—xiao, a free reed mouth organ with five or more pipes blown from the bottom—person from the same village, town, or province—Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897—efferent nerve (transmitting out from the brain)—from the cradle the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water—lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)—Chinese traditional teaching as opposed material from the West—separate the grain from the husk—lit. the cart in front overturns, a warning the following cart (idiom); fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor—withdraw troops from the front—using the few defeat the many (idiom); to win from a position of weakness—military dependents' village (community established in Taiwan for Nationalist soldiers and their dependents after the KMT retreated from the mainland in 1949)—Yangshao neolithic culture from the central Yellow river basin, with red and black pottery—lit. a dragon's scale from the east and a dragon's claw from the west—in arithmetic of subtraction, borrow 10 and carry from the next place—tung oil, from the Japanese wood-oil tree Aleurites cordata, used in making lacquer—from the beginning of ... up ...—excommunicate sb (from the Roman Catholic Church)—(of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather—separate the wheat from the chaff [idiom.]—Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology—still drunk from the previous night—discharge (rheum) from the mucous membranes of the eyes—sea sand (sand collected from the ocean floor, as opposed that which is used as an ingredient in concrete)—stray from the intended line—road branching from the main street—modern history (for China, from the Opium Wars until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, i.e. mid-19th early 20th century)—watch passively (i.e. from the sidelines, from the crowd)—write as if from the mouth of sb—the Xirong, an ancient ethnic group of Western China from the Zhou Dynasty onwards—be cut off from the rest of the world [idiom.]—double expulsion (from the party and from administrative post, as a punishment for corruption)—watch from the sidelines and do nothing [idiom.]—lit. drop from the sky [idiom.]—sing from the same hymn-sheet—towering buildings are built up from the ground [idiom.]—person from the same village, town or province—Charlemagne (c. 747-c. 814), King of the Franks, Holy Roman Emperor from 800—work against the interests of sb one derives support from—lunar apogee (point in the moon's orbit furthest from earth)—return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as a result of failing to get good enough results to progress to one's desired higher-level school—Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT, from 1926)—the Qinling plank road Shu, a historical mountain road from Shaanxi to Sichuan—offer humbly (written at the end of letter from sb. of lower status to higher status)— |