Results found with the tag ' idioms' , 12 articles in total.

• [Vocabulary] Chinese idioms：程门立雪 (Chéng mén lì xuě)

  “程门立雪”比喻尊敬师长，求学心切。程门立雪 (Chéng mén lì xuě) means to honor the teacher and be eager to learn.

  2012-11-02 07:00:01+0800

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• [Vocabulary] Chinese idioms：抱薪救火 （bào xīn jiù huǒ）

  “抱薪救火”比喻用错误的方法去消灭祸害，结果反而使祸害扩大。“抱薪救火”means adopting a wrong method to solve a problem, only to make it worse in the end.

  2012-11-01 07:00:01+0800

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• [Vocabulary] Chinese idioms：对症下药( duì zhèng xià yào)

  对症下药指针对病症用药。比喻针对事物的问题所在，采取对应、有效的措施。It is to prescribe a medicine specific to the illness. Later, it was used as a metaphor to find specific ways to solve each i

  2012-10-31 07:00:01+0800

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• [Vocabulary] Chinese idioms：东施效颦 (Dōngshī xiàopín)

  东施效颦指不知道别人的优点和自己的缺点，胡乱模仿，效果很差。Someone who, without understanding other people's strength and their own weakness, tries to copy others, achieving a very unsatisfactor

  2012-10-30 16:50:58+0800

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• [Vocabulary] Chinese idioms：对牛弹琴 （Duìniútánqín ）

  对牛弹琴比喻试图和不讲道理的人理论。也可以讽刺那些不看对象是谁就大发言论的人。It is also used ironically to refer to those who talk without noticing who their audience is.

  2012-10-30 16:50:43+0800

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• [Vocabulary] Chinese idioms：鹬蚌相争渔翁得利 Yùbàngxiāngzhēngyúwēndělì

  鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利比喻双方争执不下，两败俱伤，让第三方得到了利益。It means the snipe and clam ended in a deadlock which are easily caught by the fisherman. It means the third party benefits from

  2012-10-28 11:00:02+0800

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• [Vocabulary] Chinese idioms：沉鱼落雁(Chényú luòyàn)

  沉鱼落雁形容女孩子非常美丽。Chényú luòyàn is that the beauty of a woman can make fish sink to the river floor and wild geese fall out of the sky. It can be used to describe a very beautiful

  2012-10-27 11:00:00+0800

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• [Vocabulary] Chinese idioms：杯弓蛇影(Bēigōngshéyǐng)

  杯弓蛇影，将映在酒杯里的弓影误认为是蛇。比喻因疑神疑鬼而引起恐惧。Mistake the shadow of a bow in one's cup as a snake. The idiom is used to refer to the fear caused by self-created suspicion.

  2012-10-26 11:25:06+0800

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• [Vocabulary] Chinese idioms：自相矛盾(Zìxiāngmáodùn)

  成语自相矛盾(Zìxiāngmáodùn) 比喻语言、行动前后不一致或互相抵触。This idom means be not consistent with oneself or being self-contradictory.

  2012-10-25 15:18:41+0800

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• [Vocabulary] Chinese idioms：纸上谈兵(Zhǐ Shàng Tán Bīng)

  纸上谈兵在纸面上谈论打仗，喻没有实际经验，只会照着书本空谈，不能成为现实。纸上谈兵 literally means talk about strategy on paper. It refers to those who have no practical experience and are only g

  2012-10-24 14:44:00+0800

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• [Vocabulary] Play the Lute to a Cow

  "对牛弹琴" literally means playing the music towards the cow, but the cow took no notice. This is a metaphor for trying to reason with those who are unreasonable. It is also used ironically to re

  2011-11-17 14:00:01+0800

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• [Reading] 涤亲溺器 Wash Closet Stool for Mother

  黄庭坚是个孝子，二十四孝里有一则家户喻晓的故事──涤亲溺器，说的就是他。苏东坡赞叹他「瑰伟之文，妙绝当世；孝友之行，追配古人。」这是说他的文章瑰伟，气韵超然，无可比拟；而他孝顺父母，友爱兄弟的情

  2011-10-31 09:23:03+0800

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