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| Processed by: | goldyn_chyld (2014-09-17 13:53:34 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 52490 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> 攤開地圖，大陸半壁江山，從東北一路到台灣、喜馬拉雅山麓，都遭黃鸝全面佈樁。 If we look at a map of oriole habitats, the territory occupied by the black-naped oriole stretches across half of mainland China, all the way from the northeastern provinces down to Taiwan and across to the foothills of the Himalayas. 休斯獨佔全球V-SAT市場的半壁江山，其中只有美國市場由休斯自己做，其他國際市場部分，則交由台揚代工。 Hughes dominates the world V-SAT market, but in fact it only manufactures for the American market; manufacturing for the rest of the world is left to MTI. 身負穩定台灣破碎土地重責的檜木林，更是北台灣賴以維生的石門水庫、淡水河、蘭陽溪的水源安全閥，由棲蘭連結到拉拉山的檜木林，是規模宏大的天然蓄水庫，將豐沛的雨水轉換成潺潺水流，台灣半壁江山的水土系統緊緊受其牽動，任何人為的水庫工程無法取代。 The false cypress forests which bear the heavy responsibility of stabilizing Taiwan's fragmented earth, also form a safety valve for the Shihmen Reservoir, Tanshui River and Lanyang River on which the people of northern Taiwan depend for their drinking water. The band of cypress forest that runs from Mt. Chilan to Mt. Lala forms a huge natural reservoir that soaks up heavy rainfall and releases it in gentler flows while keeping the soil firmly in its grasp, in a way that no human engineering project could replicate. 可惜的是，為梅花開疆闢土，完成精神版圖的宋人，自身卻一路失去半壁江山 But sadly the people of the Song, who conquered such vast spiritual dominions for the plum flower, themselves lost half their national territory. In M's example 半壁江山 refers to the territory that has *not* fallen to invaders: 「為保半壁江山，他毅然投身軍旅」。 (A and K's defs say it's like this.) In NC's example, however, 半壁江山 is the territory that *has* fallen: 半壁江山已落入敵手。Half of the country is lost to the enemy. |
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- 半壁江山 半壁江山 [ban4 bi4 jiang1 shan1] /half of country/ + 半壁江山 半壁江山 [ban4 bi4 jiang1 shan1] /half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands)/swathe of territory/ + 半壁河山 半壁河山 [ban4 bi4 he2 shan1] /see 半壁江山[ban4 bi4 jiang1 shan1]/ |