Sunday, September 27, 2009

一波三折

一波三折比喻阻礙多。
一波三折 means a lots of obstacles. 一波 one wave, 三折 three blendings or breakings.

一命嗚呼

一命嗚呼就是死了,很易很快地死了。
一命嗚呼 means die. 一命 one's life. 嗚呼 expressed as disappeared, gone.

一知半解

一知半解是知很少不太明白。
一知半解 means someone knows very little, not fully understand. 一知 know one, a little bit, 半 half 解 comprehend.

一呼百諾

一呼百諾和一呼百應就是諾和應的分別。諾是答應面應是接應。一呼是一聲呼喊。一呼百諾是一聲呼喊便有很多人(百人,多的意思)答應,表示呼喊的人的勢力。一呼百應是一聲呼喊便有很多人接應,表示呼喊的人的影嚮力。
一呼百諾 implies a person's power, just a call 一呼, hundreds of people 百 listen 諾 or agree and follows.
一呼百應 implies a person's influential ability. 應 receive, accept, felt belonged.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

一刻千金

一刻千金 比喻 時間寶貴。
一刻千金 means time is precious. 一刻 one tick, 千金 thousand gold.

一言蔽之

一言蔽之是用一句話來概括。
一言蔽之 is to use just one word to summarize the whole meaning. 一言 one word, 蔽之 cover it up, embrace the whole meaning or all the talking.

一身是膽

一身是膽說人膽大,很勇。
一身是膽 say someone is very brave, like the whole body is filled with bladder. 一身, one body, whole body. 是膽 is bladder. In chinese bladder has the connotation of gutsy, very brave..

一見鍾情

一見鍾情形容初次見面便鐘意對方。
一見鍾情 is the same as love at first sight. 一見 fisrt look, first meet, 鍾情 fall in love.

一見如故

一見如故 說的是某人雖初相識但卻像老朋友一樣的傾談。
一見如故 implies a newly met friend is like an old friend. ( in the way the conversation goes)一見, first look, newly met. 如 like 故 old (friend).

一決雌雄

一決雌雄即是要決定勝敗
一決雌雄is the final determination of the winner. 一 is one, 決 is decide, 雌 female 雄 male. An expression to finalize who is going to win.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

冧蒙頭

小時候媽媽教我中文字,有些字用「冧蒙頭」,有些字用「草花頭」,有些字用「竹花頭」。回想起來,印家很深,「冧蒙頭」的「冧」字,差些也記不起來,但查下「天九」的「拎冧六」又醒起個「冧」字個頭,於是「冧蒙頭」的字也不難知道,冗、罕、軍、冠、冢、冤、冥及幂等都是這個頭,讀音「覓」,不過用「冧蒙頭」好似好啲。「草花頭」的字多的是:花、草、茶、苑及苗等很多的字。「竹花頭」也有竿、竺、笋、第及笨等等字。
中文字有趣的地方就是有頭有尾有邊有艇。

一技之長

一技之長是有一種持別的本頜,比人好的技能。
一技之長 says one good skill, or the best of one's skill. 一技 a skill, 之長 is the best.

一改故轍

一改故轍是轍底地改變以往的壞習慣。
一改故轍 says completely change or correct what has done in the past. 一改 one for all change, 故轍 the old track.

一往情深

一往情深形容很深的感情或愛情。
一往情深 means the depth of love, so deep. 一往 one way to go, 情深 love so deeply.

一成不變

一成不變是死守着舊觀點、老辨法、不肯改變。
一成不變 describes a person always use the same thinking, same way of doing things and not willing to change. 一成 10% 不變 no change, never change.

一字一板

一字一板形容口齒伶俐清清楚楚。
一字一板 describes a person is saying very clearly and orderly.

一帆風順

一帆風順比喻非常順利要乜有乜做乜都冇阻礙。
一帆風順means everything is good, no problem, going smoothly, no obstacle.

一目十行

一目十行形容問讀的速度很快。
一目十行 describe how fast the person read. 一目 just one look, 十行 have read ten lines or sentences.

一目了然

一目了然意思足一看就明白。
一目了然 means easy to understand. Just one look 一目 then you know 了然.

一丘之貉

一丘之貉比喻同一樣的人(賤,奸,不好的)。貉是狐狸一類的野獸。丘是小山。
一丘之貉describes a person of a type which is cunning, bad and evil.

一本萬利

喜歡一本萬利多是生意人,他們想用極少的本錢來獲取極大的利潤,看似很貪心。
一本萬利refers to most business person. They like to obtain the biggest profit 萬利 (ten thousand profit or benefits) with one single capital or cost 一本. Look greedy heh?

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

戌戍戊

母親教我分:橫、點中空。
- the 11th hour in chinese hour.
- 會意。從人持戈。甲骨文字形,象人負戈守衛邊疆。本義:防守邊疆。on guard, people who watches or guards for the rich/emperor.
- 戊是天干的第五位。The 5th position of counting, like A, B, C, D, E - 甲,乙,丙,丁,戊,己。

未末土士

是「未」來的「未」。 Future, never, haven't.
是包尾的末,煙「末」的「末」,像「末」代皇帝的「末」。End, vanish.
是泥「土」的「土」。Earth, dirt.
是「護士」的「士」。Person, knowledgable, nurse.

己巳已

中文字最有趣的是:
己巳已

這三個字看來原全一樣,其實是三個不同的字,多謝母親教我去分辨它們。
開口己,自「己」的「己」。 myself, self
埋口巳,子丑寅卯辰「巳」午未申酉戌亥這十二時辰的「巳」。 dzi, the 6th chinese hour.
半捻已,「已」經過去了的「已」。 already.

一本正經

一本正經是很正經的樣子,意思亦可說外面是內裡不是。
一本正經 means the look of seriousness. 一本 a book 正經 tidy, rightful bible.

一孔之見

一孔之見是說某人的主觀見解不全面,狹隘的。
一孔之見 is to criticize someone's view point is narrow minded or biased. Much like looking 見 through a hole 一孔。 Very similar to 6 blind men tell about an elephant.

一日千里

一日千里形容進步或發展很快。
一日千里 means traveling thousand miles 千里 in 1 day 一日 describing the dramatic or rapid change or advancing of something like a city, a country or the world.

一毛不拔

一毛不拔比喻非常吝嗇自私。
一毛不拔 means someone is very selfish, even 1 hair 一毛 he will not give or pull out 不拔 for anyone.

一日三秋

一日三秋比喻守候時感覺很長,一日如三年之長。
一日三秋 express the feeling of waiting, longing. One day 一日 seems like 3 years 三秋.秋 is autumn or fall. One year has only one autumn. 三秋 means 3 autumns or 3 years.

一心一德

一心一德說的是團結一致一絛心。
一心一德 means very united spirit. 一 one 心 heart 德 morale, spirit.

一心一意

一心一意 說人專心,不多心,不分神。
一心一意 describe the concentration, loyality and focusing of a persion.

一手包辦

一手包辦形容獨自做所有的事,不用別人幫忙。
一手包辦 means doing everything by self without help from others.

一刀兩斷

一刀兩斷形容堅決斷絕關係。
一刀兩斷 shows the determination of breaking a relationship, like using knife 刀 to break 斷 the relationship into two 兩 with one 一 cut.

一了百了

一了百了說的是一件事終結了而其他的事也跟着了結了。
一了百了 means if the key problem is solved, all other problem will utimately be solved.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

蠶食鯨吞

蠶食鯨吞形容像蠶食桑葉地-小小小小啲吃,一點一點地咬;像鯨魚吃的樣子,一口吞下。比喻用不同方式的掠奪。
蠶食鯨吞 describes eating like silk worms as well as whales. Using both way, little by little or eat the whole thing, meaning ripping off in all different ways.

鬱鬱寡歡

鬱鬱寡歡這個成語等同悶悶不樂。鬱鬱是苦悶的樣子。寡是少。歡是開心。
鬱鬱寡歡 means sad, very sad, 寡歡 is rarely happy. 鬱鬱 is like happy feeling being imprisoned and cannot let go.

Monday, September 14, 2009

My First One @ blogger

When it comes to blogging, I will try this.