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| Processed by: | richwarm (2015-10-08 06:26:11 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 55412 - submitted by 'ycandau' >> 气得差点背过气去 LA, M say it's "to faint" others dicts seem to indicate that it's "to choke (in anger etc)" Me, I don't see how you can faint from anger. I don't quite see either how you can stop breathing and not be dead. I suspect that 背氣 is in fact literally a dead faint, a kind of seizure, and when used figuratively it's a bit like "I nearly had a stroke" No proof of that, so you can criticize the def Editor: Yves' own revised definition. You can also say "he nearly had a fit" to mean that he was extremely angry. |
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# 背氣 背气 [bei4 qi4] /to stop breathing (as a medical condition)/to have a syncope (in anger)/ + 背氣 背气 [bei4 qi4] /to stop breathing (as a medical condition)/(fig.) to pass out (in anger)/to have a stroke/ |