| 释义 |
Examples:call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it—lock the stable door after the horse has bolted—(arch.) metal horn attached as shield horse or to the axle of a chariot—cock-fighting and horse-racing (idiom); gamble—making a deer out be a horse (idiom); deliberate misrepresentation—Horse-Face, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology—tear off a person's four limbs and head using five horse drawn carts (as capital punishment)—side horse (in a team of harnessed horses)—lit. a horse that has thrown off the reins (idiom); runaway horse—lit. give medicine to a dead horse (idiom); fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation—7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse—lit. single spear and horse (idiom); fig. single handed—lit. heart like a frisky monkey, mind like a cantering horse (idiom); fig. capricious (derog.)—Court of imperial stud, office originally charged with horse breeding—lit. work like an ox, to work like a horse; fig. to work extremely hard—Bo Le (horse connoisseur during Spring and Autumn Period)—you can lead a horse water but you can't make him drink—old tea-horse market between Tibet, China, Southeast Asia and India, formalized as a state enterprise under the Song dynasty—Trojan horse, add malware to a website or program (computing)—take a deer and call it a horse (idiom); deliberate inversion of the truth—lit. an old horse knows the way home (idiom); fig. in difficulty, trust an experience colleague—lit. rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom); fig. to act in the nick of time—order of odd-toed ungulate (including horse, tapir, rhinoceros)—clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance—lit. be struck by an arrow and fall from one's horse—lit. a good horse doesn't come back the same pasture [idiom.]—lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best [idiom.]— |