| Change log entry 42124 | |
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| Processed by: | richwarm (2012-07-06 00:28:32 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 38594 - submitted by 'goldyn_chyld' >> http://www.zdic.net/cd/ci/3/ZdicE5ZdicA5ZdicB3281740.htm http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/%E5%A5%B3%E5%A4%A7%E5%8D%81%E5%85%AB%E5%8F%98/29668 http://dict.baidu.com/s?wd=%C5%AE%B4%F3%CA%AE%B0%CB%B1%E4&tn=dict&dt=explain http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/cgi-bin/newDict/dict.sh?idx=dict.idx&cond=%A8S%B7%C7%A8%E0&pieceLen=50&fld=1&cat=&imgFont=1 Editor: The zdic reference and also other sources indicate that it's not only her "physical appearance" (F, for example, mentions change in "disposition" and Z mentions 性格) TP example ~ 「湯蘭花小時候很醜、很瘦，像隻小猴子，」與湯蘭花同年，當年曾是同學的雅慕伊，笑說來吉之光是「女大十八變」。 "As a child, Tang Lanhua was a scrawny ugly duckling," Yamui, an old classmate of Tang chuckles as she describes the pride of Pnguu. "Looks like our ugly duckling grew up." |
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# 女大十八變 女 大十八变 [nu:3 da4 shi2 ba1 bian4] /women undergo great changes in physical appearance from childhood to adulthood/ + 女大十八變 女大十八变 [nu:3 da4 shi2 ba1 bian4] /lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom)/fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was/ |