1911 2011
辛亥革命
China's first President Sun Yat-Sen and military commander Huang Xing lead the revolutionary Wuchang Uprising in a bid to put an end to the reign of the Qing Dynasty.
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| 甘死如饴 甘死如飴 | 甘: sweetness; sweet, tasty · 死: die; dead; death · 如: if, supposing; as if; like, as · 饴: sweet-meats; sweet-cakes; syrup | Idiom |
| 一表人才 一表人才 | 一: one; a, an; alone · 表: show, express, manifest, display · 人: man; people; mankind; someone else · 才: talent, ability; just, only | Idiom |
| 夜长梦多 夜長夢多 | 夜: night, dark; in night; by night · 长: long; length; excel in; leader · 梦: dream; visionary; wishful · 多: much, many; more than, over | Idiom |
| 一片焦土 一片焦土 | 一: one; a, an; alone · 片: slice, splinter, strip; rad. 91 · 焦: burned, scorched; anxious, vexed · 土: soil, earth; items made of earth | Idiom |
| 一介书生 一介書生 | 一: one; a, an; alone · 介: forerunner, herald, harbinger; to lie between; sea shell; to wear armor · 书: book, letter, document; writings · 生: life, living, lifetime; birth | Idiom |
| 囊空如洗 囊空如洗 | 囊: bag, purse, sack; put in bag · 空: empty, hollow, bare, deserted · 如: if, supposing; as if; like, as · 洗: wash, rinse; clean, purify | Idiom |
| 无立锥之地 無立錐之地 | 无: negative, no, not; KangXi radical 71 · 立: stand; let stand; establish, set · 锥: gimlet, awl, drill, auger; bore · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 地: earth; soil, ground; region | Idiom |
| 思前想后 思前想後 | to consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future; to ponder over reasons and connection | Idiom |
| 斩草除根 斬草除根 | to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch; to eliminate completely | Idiom |
| 深入人心 深入人心 | to enter deeply into people's hearts; to have a real impact on the people (idiom) | Idiom |
| 沸沸扬扬 沸沸揚揚 | bubbling and gurgling; hubbubing; abuzz | Idiom |
| 层出不穷 層出不窮 | more and more emerge; innumerable succession; breeding like flies (idiom) | Idiom |
| 息息相关 息息相關 | closely bound up (idiom); intimately related | Idiom |
| 迫不及待 迫不及待 | impatient (idiom); in a hurry; itching to get on with it | Idiom |
| 任人宰割 任人宰割 | to get trampled on (idiom); to be taken advantage of | Xiehouyu |
| 腐朽 腐朽 | rotten; decayed; decadent; degenerate | Xiehouyu |
| 奔波 奔波 | to rush about; to be constantly on the move | Xiehouyu |
| 不理 不理 | to refuse to acknowledge; to pay no attention to; to take no notice of; to ignore | Xiehouyu |
| 空虚 空虛 | hollow; emptiness; meaningless | Xiehouyu |
| 着手 著手 | to put one's hand to it; to start out on a task; to set out | Xiehouyu |
| 使唤 使喚 | to order sb around; (coll.) to handle (a draught animal, tool, machine etc); Taiwan pr. [shǐ huàn] | Colloquialism |
| 外公 外公 | (coll.) mother's father; maternal grandfather | Colloquialism |
| 邪 衺 | demonic; iniquitous; nefarious; evil; unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine); (coll.) strange; abnormal | Colloquialism |
| 娘 娘 | mother; young lady; (coll.) effeminate | Colloquialism |
| 私房钱 私房錢 | secret purse; secret stash of money | |
| 华侨 華僑 | overseas Chinese; (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality | |
| 一个劲儿 一個勁兒 | erhua variant of 一个劲; continuously | |
| 官吏 官吏 | bureaucrat; official | |
| 踏上 踏上 | to set foot on; to step on or into | |
| 出山 出山 | to leave the mountain (of a hermit); to come out of obscurity to a government job; to take a leading position | |
| 家境 家境 | family financial situation; family circumstances | |
| 换言之 換言之 | in other words | |
| 污蔑 污衊 | to slander; to smear; to tarnish | |
| 喧哗 喧嘩 | hubbub; clamor; to make a racket | |
| 看热闹 看熱鬧 | to enjoy watching a bustling scene; to go where the crowds are | |
| 万万 萬萬 | absolutely; wholly | |
| 佳肴 佳餚 | fine food; delicacies; delicious food | |
| 统筹 統籌 | an overall plan; to plan an entire project as a whole | |
| 何苦 何苦 | why bother?; is it worth the trouble? | |
| 怨气 怨氣 | grievance; resentment; complaint | |
| 零星 零星 | fragmentary; random; bits and pieces; sporadic | |
| 屹立 屹立 | to tower; to stand straight (of person's bearing) | |
| 恩惠 恩惠 | favor; grace | |
| 出息 出息 | to yield interest, profit etc; to exhale (Buddhism) | |
| 封建 封建 | system of enfeoffment; feudalism; feudal; feudalistic | |
| 赶赴 趕赴 | to hurry; to rush | |
| 着落 著落 | whereabouts; place to settle; reliable source (of funds etc); (of responsibility for a matter) to rest with sb; settlement; solution | |
| 蕴藏 蘊藏 | to hold in store; to contain (untapped reserves etc) | |
| 难处 難處 | trouble; difficulty; problem | |
| 谋求 謀求 | to seek; to strive for |