不经一事
bù jīng yī shì
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1 You can't gain knowledge without practical experience (idiom); wisdom only comes with experience
不经一事,不长一智
bù jīng yī shì , bù zhǎng yī zhì
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1 You can't gain knowledge without practical experience (idiom); wisdom only comes with experience
不见经传
bù jiàn jīng zhuàn
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1 not found in the classics (idiom); unknown
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2 unfounded
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3 not authoritative
久经考验
jiǔ jīng kǎo yàn
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1 well tested (idiom); seasoned
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2 veteran
天经地义
tiān jīng dì yì
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1 lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper
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2 right and unalterable
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3 a matter of course
如释重负
rú shì zhòng fù
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1 as if relieved from a burden (idiom)
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2 to have a weight off one's mind
家家有本难念的经
jiā jiā yǒu běn nán niàn de jīng
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1 Every family goes through its problems. (idiom)
引经据典
yǐn jīng jù diǎn
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1 lit. to quote the classics
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2 to quote chapter and verse (idiom)
爱不忍释
ài bù rěn shì
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1 to love sth too much to part with it (idiom)
爱不释手
ài bù shì shǒu
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1 to love sth too much to part with it (idiom); to fondle admiringly
惨淡经营
cǎn dàn jīng yíng
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1 to manage by painstaking effort (idiom)
手不释卷
shǒu bù shì juàn
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1 lit. always with a book in hand (idiom)
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2 fig. (of a student or scholar) diligent and hardworking
曾经沧海
céng jīng cāng hǎi
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1 lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom)
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2 fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of life
曾经沧海难为水,除却巫山不是云
céng jīng cāng hǎi nán wéi shuǐ , chú què Wū Shān bù shì yún
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1 there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom)
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2 one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things
弃农经商
qì nóng jīng shāng
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1 to abandon farming and become a businessman (idiom)
涣然冰释
huàn rán bīng shì
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1 to melt away (idiom)
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2 to dissipate
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3 to vanish
满腹经纶
mǎn fù jīng lún
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1 full of political wisdom (idiom)
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2 politically astute
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3 with encyclopedic experience of state policy
尽释前嫌
jìn shì qián xián
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1 to forget former enmity (idiom)
经历风雨
jīng lì fēng yǔ
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1 to go through thick and thin (idiom)
圣经贤传
shèng jīng xián zhuàn
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1 lit. holy scripture and biography of sage (idiom); refers to Confucian canonical texts