Chinese Idioms (Part 1)
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Created by:
martinmak on February 12, 2012
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CHIN111 A Primer for Advaned Biginners of Chinese
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13 terms
Chinese, Simplified | English |
|---|---|
 三人成虎 | a repeated slander makes others believe |
| 井底之蛙 | person with limited vision |
| 打草惊蛇 | act rashly and alert the enemy |
| 守株待兔 | trust to chance and strokes of luck |
| 杯弓蛇影 | suffer from imaginary fears |
| 害群之马 | a black sheep |
| 画蛇添足 | to overdo it |
| 狐假虎威 | to bully people by flaunting one's powerful connections |
| 卧薪尝胆 | put up with an insult in order to take revenge |
| 指鹿为马 | distort the facts |
| 杞人忧天 | meet trouble halfway |
| 刻舟求剑 | to take measures without regarding changes in circumstances |
| 滥竽充数 | to make up the number (incompetent people or inferior goods) |
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