| 释义 |
Examples:how things develop (esp. how they affect oneself)—(cf Book of Songs) How fashion an ax handle? You need an ax—one tiny clue reveals the general trend (idiom); small beginnings show how things will develop—The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).—How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained.—without rules, how can anything be done (idiom); one must follow some rules—consider (the best move, how to find a way etc)—lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?—rendering (visual representation of how things will turn out)—estimate how much food is required for a meal—have difficulty remembering how to write Chinese characters—in Qing times, refers Western technology, esp. military and naval know-how—any-old-how, regardless of the specific task—lit. ask passers-by how build one's house (idiom); fig. to have no idea what to do—epistemology (in philosophy, the theory of how we know things)—a white steed flits past a crack (idiom); How time flies!—age of wine (i.e. how long it has been matured)—time flies like an arrow (idiom); How time flies!—Knowledge is not innate man, how can we overcome doubt?—the sun and moon like a shuttle (idiom); How time flies!—fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?—the heart desperately wants understand how to do sth but cannot [idiom.]—go astray and to not know how to get back on the right path [idiom.]— |