以史为鉴 (以史為鑒)
yǐ shǐ wéi jiàn
Pinyin
Definition
以史为鉴 (以史為鑒)
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- to learn from history (idiom)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 old variant of 以[yǐ]
- 1 before
- 2 formerly
- 3 previous
- 4 ago
- 1 after
- 2 later
- 3 afterwards
- 4 following
- 5 later on
- 6 in the future
- 1 to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.)
- 1 can
- 2 may
- 3 possible
- 4 able to
- 5 not bad
- 6 pretty good
Idioms (20)
一则以喜,一则以忧
- 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)
一言以蔽之
- 1 one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short
- 2 in a nutshell
不以人废言
- 1 not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers
不以为然
- 1 not to accept as correct (idiom); to object
- 2 to disapprove
- 3 to take exception to
不以规矩,不能成方圆
- 1 without rules, nothing can be done (idiom, from Mencius); one must follow some rules