释义 |
Examples:use this in place of that—sth of dubious worth that one is reluctant give up—(indicates that sth. turns out just the opposite of what one would expect or what would be normal)—wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual—Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles—philosophy of idealism, the doctrine that external reality is a product of consciousness—Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements—Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain—the theory of Mencius that people are by nature good—(adverbial expression indicating that the attention of the subject of the verb is focused on what they are doing, not distracted by anything else)—brand name of a glucose injection that caused medical scandal—stars of the Big Dipper that constitute the tail of the dipper—muqam, Uyghur melody types that are the basis for a set of suites—important matter that must be kept secret (idiom); don't breathe a word of it anyone!—materialism, philosophical doctrine that physical matter is the whole of reality—the theory that man is an integral part of nature—material (that sth is made of)—pluralism, philosophical doctrine that the universe consists of different substances—any occupation that involves a great deal of field work—name of a country that formerly existed near Samarkand—the philosophy of materialism, doctrine that physical matter is the whole of reality—It is said that ... (at the start of a narrative)—the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year in24 equal periods—the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937 that sparked WW2 between Japan and China—fall flat (esp. of joke or speech that is completely ignored)—the great Shaanxi earthquake of 2nd February 1556 that killed 830,000 people—(at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?—bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called second Taiwan strait crisis—fig. female beauty exceeding even that of the natural world—dualism, belief that the universe is made of two different substance (e.g. mind and matter or good and evil)—Kantō earthquake of 1923, magnitude 8.2, that killed 200,000 people in the Tokyo area—One-China principle, the official doctrine that Taiwan is a province of China—formal program of the communist party after 1949, that served as interim national plan—a social and political movement founded in 1920s China that combines aspects of Western and Eastern philosophy—able think of everything that needs to be thought of—ensure that you pay debts of gratitude [idiom.]—lit. the voice of the guest overwhelms that of the host [idiom.]— |