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<< review queue entry 67530 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> 1. I don't like "trip". That word usually means "stumble". 2. TCM sense. 手舞足蹈 （中医术语） 手舞足蹈指手足不自主动弹如舞蹈之状。常见于癫狂、肝风内动等病证中。 https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%89%8B%E8%88%9E%E8%B6%B3%E8%B9%88/20232650 (Wiktionary has this sense -- possibly derived from this Baike article) Examples: - 男子一入睡便手舞足蹈 医生：警惕会伤人的梦！ - 开颅手术中，少女患者突然醒来“手舞足蹈” - 该男子在入睡之后不久就会手舞足蹈大喊大叫等动作， - 代代遺傳悲劇 手舞足蹈不停 「只能看著她死」 罕見亨廷頓舞蹈症 致命「家族魔咒」 ... 只有熟睡時，她才能停止「手舞足蹈」。 3. Although feet (足) are mentioned in 手舞足蹈, the feet are not necessarily involved, and there isn't necessarily any jumping or dancing. (I've marked some examples with a * where the feet don't seem to be involved.) And, despite what dictionaries say, there isn't necessarily any joy or excitement. See examples below. 例如媽媽在孕期中撫摸肚子，肚子裡的寶寶常會手舞足蹈的回應。 A roar of anger rose from my father's throat. He danced and shouted a string of inarticulate words. 父亲的喉咙里发出一声愤怒的吼声。他手舞足蹈嘟嘟哝哝骂了一通。 He greeted us with an expansive gesture and a wide smile. * 他手舞足蹈笑逐颜开地迎接我们. Hung-chien went with Hsin-mei and there they saw Ku, who was waving his arms and stamping his feet to call them down. 鸿渐跟辛楣去一看，就是顾先生，手舞足蹈地叫他们下来。 He looked at the girl acting out her injured innocence and stared at her until she looked down. 他看那小女孩手舞足蹈地表白完了她无罪受冤屈，于是瞪着她看，直到她低下头来。 The figure's arms and feet moved in a dance that seemed to be performed for them, and its face, on which the features were indistinct, seemed to be frozen in a sort of silent, mysterious expression. 那人形朝着他们手舞足蹈着，辨不清五官的脸孔上似乎凝着一种静默的、神秘的表情。 Australian scientists have invented a T-shirt that allows air guitarists to play actual music as they strum the air. * 澳大利亚科学家们近日发明了一种新颖而神奇的T恤衫，对于那些热衷于空气吉他演奏的人来说，只要穿上它便可以在没有吉他的情况下，仅凭“手舞足蹈”就能够弹奏出逼真悦耳的音乐。 People often motion with their hands while talking. These gestures help express their feelings. Movement is a form of communication, and through movement people express themselves. * 人们交谈的时候手舞足蹈，这些手势表达了他们的情感，动作也是一种交流的形式，人们通过动作来表达自我。 在「舞者的宮殿」有一排石雕人像，有著奧爾梅克人像的影子。這些四肢捲曲的人形，好像在手舞足蹈， There is a line of human stone statues in the "Gallery of Dancers," giving a vague, shadowy suggestion of the appearance of the Olmec people. These human figures, with twisted limbs, appear to be dancing. 像被三太子附身的乩童般手舞足蹈。 [Suddenly rock music blares, and the man] starts dancing like a young Taoist jitong exorcising ghosts. 然而，在師生聚會，酒足飯飽之後，陳慧坤會站出來手舞足蹈，跳起日本的古老酒席歌舞。 Yet, at teacher-student get-togethers, Chen was known to get up and dance a few steps while singing old Japanese nakashi songs. 答案，就在病人對醫師手舞足蹈、笑容滿面的肢體語言中。 they will tell you that the answer is to be found in the body language of and smiling faces of their patients. 身穿比基尼、留學西班牙的台灣學生們，將國旗掛在身上，並於本壘板的後方手舞足蹈， attired in bikinis and draped in the national flag, put on an impromptu dance around [the baseball] home plate. * ...阿豪忍不住手舞足蹈。 It's thrilling and gives me a sense of accomplishment," says A-Hao, barely containing his joy at the mention of his much-loved World of Warcraft. 他分析，檯面上比較走紅的名嘴，上電視時常都是手舞足蹈、咬牙切齒的激情演出，再配合語不驚人死不休的言論， He points out that many of the most famous talking heads put on emotional performances in which they are excitable, demonstrative, and teeth-gnashing, to go along with their "shock jock" vocabularies. On the day of the event, we danced to African music to celebrate the fruits of sponsorship support. 所以當天在結束前，全場一起以非洲鼓樂手舞足蹈慶祝助養成果，把聚會推向高潮！ (to gesture) * 不過溝通起來需要“手舞足蹈”，因為當地人的英文並不是很好。 |
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- 手舞足蹈 手舞足蹈 [shou3 wu3 zu2 dao3] /hands dance and feet trip (idiom); dancing and gesticulating for joy/ + 手舞足蹈 手舞足蹈 [shou3 wu3 zu2 dao3] /lit. to move one's hands and feet about (idiom)/fig. to dance about/to express one's feelings in body language/to gesture animatedly/(TCM) involuntary movements of the limbs/ |