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| Processed by: | richwarm (2019-01-19 22:55:16 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 63672 - submitted by 'polaris' >> 1、【MOE】 比喻極有義氣。 如：「關公義薄雲天，讓人由衷欽佩。」 2、《中华语文大辞典》 比喻非常講義氣。 » 英雄好漢除暴安民，義薄雲天。 From http://chinese-linguipedia.org/search_inner.html?keywords=%E7%BE%A9%E8%96%84%E9%9B%B2%E5%A4%A9 3、【ABC】 high morality reaching up to the clouds 4、云山顿首，颂不尽义薄云天的慷慨；珠水呜咽，道不完大爱无疆的悲壮。英雄，以他如日中天的生命，化作催人泪下的音符，谱写了一曲对生命大爱的交响曲。 From http://opinion.people.com.cn/n/2013/0306/c1003-20689706.html ----------------------------------------------------- Editor: Another example ~ 許多警察都崇拜義薄雲天的關公，侯友宜也不例外。 For several reasons, "sky-high morality" doesn't work well as a definition for 義薄雲天. 1) "sky-high morality" is a *noun phrase*, whereas 義薄雲天 is a *stative verb* in most usage and in most dictionary definitions (e.g. MOE 極有義氣 or XHC 正义迫近高空 etc.) (ABC is an exception, but they have a tendency to define fixed expressions like this as nouns even when they are mostly used as verbs.) 2) Unlike 義薄雲天, "sky-high" often has negative connotations ("extremely or excessively high", as in "sky-high prices" or "Her blood pressure was sky-high.") The phrase "sky-high morality" tends to be used sarcastically, as in these examples from the Web: - "All I am trying to say is that, we as humans are 100% hypocrites, we hold a sky high morality in one case and stoop down to an all-time low in another case." - "The whole world can see the sky high morality n ethical character of ur west n america. like...blood shed in vietnam, thousand of muslims blood in bosnia, invasion on iraq, sudan n somalia." |
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# 義薄雲天 义薄云天 [yi4 bo2 yun2 tian1] /sky-high morality/ + 義薄雲天 义薄云天 [yi4 bo2 yun2 tian1] /supremely honorable and righteous/ |