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Examples:Invite one and he'll tell all his friends.—you can run this time, but you'll have come back—enumerate what is black and yellow (idiom); to criticize sb behind his back to incite quarrels—Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom); fig. if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later—Taku Forts, maritime defense works in Tianjin dating back the Ming dynasty, playing a prominent role during the Opium Wars (1839-1860)—hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions—consonants zh, ch, sh, r produced on the back of the tongue—Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights—come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom); to return in glory—He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night.—lit. wool comes from the sheep's back (idiom); One gets the benefit, but the price has been paid.—lit. if he orders you go, he forbids you stop (idiom); fig. demand exact compliance with instructions—He'nan Mengguzu autonomous county in Qinghai—He Zizhen (1910-1984), Mao Zedong's third wife—go back to one's native place and live in seclusion—demand loan (i.e. loan that the borrower can demanded back at any time)—lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them rain—with back the mountain and facing the water (favored location)—variety of small cicada with a green back and a clear song (in ancient books)—trip forwards or stumble back (idiom, from Book of Songs); can't get anything right—return to the main topic (idiom); back to business—He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution—If you can't do anything prevent it, you might as well sit back and enjoy it.—lit. the birds are over, the bow is put away (idiom); fig. get rid of sb once he has served his purpose—raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom); success or failure depends solely on one individual—He Houhua (1955-), Macau financier and politician, first magistrate from 1999—Lai Changxing (1958-), notorious Xiamen mafia boss involved in large scale corruption and smuggling, extradited from Canada back China in 2008—glycine (Gly), an amino acid—lit. hear one and know ten (idiom); fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything—old: reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one's word—get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful—Zheng He (1371-1433), famous early Ming dynasty admiral and explorer—back sb up from the sidelines (in an argument)—He Yingqin (1890-1987), senior Guomindang general—saddle crupper (harness strap on horse's back)—He Chao (active c. 711), Tang dynasty poet—dilettante who speaks as though he were an expert—Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning—cooking oil that has been used and discarded (and, in China, sometimes illegally recovered from gutters and sewers, reprocessed and sold back restaurants)—Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank—Wei Sheng (legendary character who waited for his love under a bridge until he was drowned in the surging waters)—old tea-horse road or southern Silk Road, dating back 6th century, from Tibet and Sichuan through Yunnan and Southeast Asia, reaching to Bhutan, Sikkim, India and beyond—lit. the cycle comes back the start (idiom); to move in circles—He who gives no thought far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects).—did I ever ...? (or "did he ever ...?" etc)—secure in the knowledge that one has backing—strangle and slap the back (idiom); fig. to occupy a strategic post—avoid the enemy when he is fresh and strike him when he is tired and withdraws—single-elimination open tournament (the winner stays on until he is himself defeated)—He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom).—if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus [idiom.]—a sly individual has more than one plan fall back on [idiom.]—guide sb. back to the right path by repeated word and example—each one does what he thinks is right [idiom.]—lit. wear one's coat inside out and carry firewood on one's back [idiom.]— |