| 释义 |
Examples:overgrown gate, wicker windows (idiom); poor person's house—"Phone Gate", corruption scandal unearthed through telephone records—Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing—Brandenburg (e.g. gate, concertos)—the main northwest gate of Beijing—Hangu Pass in modern day Henan Province, strategic pass forming the eastern gate of the Qin State during the Warring States Period (770-221 BC)—a screen wall across the gate of a house (for privacy)—defensive platform over gate—a name for a mountain pass gate in several places—lit. the gate of a noble house is like the sea—mythical Dragon gate where a carp can transform ina dragon—defensive gate or wall (refers the Great Wall)—Yumen Pass, or Jade Gate, western frontier post on the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, west of Dunhuang, in Gansu—lit. devil's gate, crooked path (idiom); corrupt practices—Yongdingmen, front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall, torn down in the 1950s and reconstructed in 2005— |