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Examples:Invite one and he'll tell all his friends.—no room advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma—Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom); fig. if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later—hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions—reveal the cloven foot (idiom); to unmask one's true nature—He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night.—over-correct a defect (idiom); to over-compensate—Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates, such as pigs, cows, giraffes etc)—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—(of the fingers or toes) nail—lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them rain—pick up money and not hide it (idiom); to return property to its owner—He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution—yellow peril (offensive term referring the perceived threat to Western nations, of immigration or military expansion from East Asian nations)—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—the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); drive the nation to bankruptcy—He Houhua (1955-), Macau financier and politician, first magistrate from 1999—lend-lease (US device provide war materiel to its allies during WW2)—perform religious ceremonies to help the soul find peace—lit. hear one and know ten (idiom); fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything—lit. the clumsy bird flies early (idiom); fig. work hard to compensate for one's limited abilities—lock (denying access to a computer system or device or files, e.g. by password-protection)—Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates, such as horses, zebras etc)—indulge in something to one's heart's content—person hired lure customers to high-priced bars—get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful—Zheng He (1371-1433), famous early Ming dynasty admiral and explorer—There is always sth more learn (applied to art or learning).—He Yingqin (1890-1987), senior Guomindang general—What you don't want done you, don't do to others. (idiom, from the Confucian analects)—pass the misfortune on to sb else (idiom); to blame others—He Chao (active c. 711), Tang dynasty poet—hard untie, hard to separate (idiom); inextricably involved—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—pick up what others say (idiom); to pass off other people's opinions as one's own—(coll.) (of women) get one's period—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)—rook sacrifice save the king (in Chinese chess); fig. to protect a senior figure by blaming an underling—appropriate to oneself (what rightfully belongs to others)—fig. stay to look after one's elderly parents—(of an airplane etc) fall to the ground and crash—He who gives no thought far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects).—raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint—lit. return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom); fig. to make a comeback—order of odd-toed ungulate (including horse, tapir, rhinoceros)—did I ever ...? (or "did he ever ...?" etc)—fig. a condition giving access benefits (e.g. a diploma as a pass to a career)—avoid the enemy when he is fresh and strike him when he is tired and withdraws—a form of transit taxation in China introduced finance armies to suppress the Taiping Rebellion—reveal sth one intended to conceal through a slip of the tongue—consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future—single-elimination open tournament (the winner stays on until he is himself defeated)—able think of everything that needs to be thought of—love sth too much to part with it (idiom); to fondle admiringly—confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc)—He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom).—submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence—each one does what he thinks is right [idiom.]—go astray and to not know how to get back on the right path [idiom.]—if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus [idiom.]—sit and pontificate; to find answers through theory and not through practice [idiom.]—throw stones at sb. who fell down a well (idiom); to hit a person who is down— |