桂冠
guì guān
Pinyin
Definition
桂冠
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- laurel
- victory garland (in Greek and Western culture)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (9)
冠冕堂皇
- 1 high-sounding
- 2 dignified
- 3 pompous (idiom)
峨冠博带
- 1 official class
- 2 intellectual class (idiom)
张冠李戴
- 1 lit. to put Zhang's hat on Li's head
- 2 to attribute sth to the wrong person (idiom)
- 3 to confuse one thing with another
弹冠相庆
- 1 lit. to flick dust off sb's cap (idiom); to celebrate an official appointment
- 2 to congratulate and celebrate (promotion, graduation etc)
怒发冲冠
- 1 lit. hair stands up in anger and tips off one's hat (idiom)
- 2 fig. seething in anger
- 3 raise one's hackles
Sample Sentences
是啊,其中梁朝伟三次夺得最佳男主角桂冠,张曼玉四夺最佳女主角,成为当之无愧的金马王和金马女皇。
Yeah, amid this Hong Kong trend, Tony Leung won best actor three times and Maggie Cheung won best actress four times, making them deserving of the title King and Queen of the Golden Horse Awards.