| 释义 |
Examples:locked in (with the door locked from the outside)—the Three Wise Kings from the East in the biblical nativity story—thunder from a clear sky (idiom); a bolt from the blue—person from the same village, town, or province—review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects)—konnyaku (in Japanese cooking), solidified jelly made from the rhizome of devil's tongue—lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon)—Lucy (from the Narnia chronicles)—Qieyun, the first Chinese rime dictionary from 601 AD, containing 11,500 single-character entries—separate the grain from the husk—regional (away from the central administration)—withdraw troops from the front—(in olden times) betrothal gift from the groom's family—using the few defeat the many (idiom); to win from a position of weakness—foam (coming from the mouth)—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—What you don't want done you, don't do to others. (idiom, from the Confucian analects)—the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year in24 equal periods—(of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather—a shelter from the wind and rain—from the back (rows of seats)—let saliva dribble from the mouth—still drunk from the previous night—get disconnected (from the Internet)—discharge (rheum) from the mucous membranes of the eyes—hide supplies (from the enemy)—skim froth or foam from the surface of a liquid—fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor—lit. the guest acts as host (idiom); fig. turn from passive to active behavior—pipe wind instrument introduced from the non-Han peoples in the North and West—move the tiger from the mountain (idiom); to lure an opponent out by a stratagem—rarities from the mountain and the sea (idiom); fig. a sumptuous spread of food delicacies—young person from the same village—complete change from the normal state (idiom); quite uncharacteristic—lever arm (i.e. perpendicular distance from the fulcrum the line of force)—lit. food and medicine come from the same source [idiom.]—isolated (from the world)—lit. drop from the sky [idiom.]—national danger, but no support (idiom, from Analects); the future of the nation is at stake but no-one comes the rescue—the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century—Irtysh River, flowing from southwest Altai in Xinjiang through Kazakhstan and Siberia the Arctic Ocean—offer humbly (written at the end of letter from sb. of lower status to higher status)— |