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
久病成良医
jiǔ bìng chéng liáng yī
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1 long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)
久经考验
jiǔ jīng kǎo yàn
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1 well tested (idiom); seasoned
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2 veteran
割股疗亲
gē gǔ liǎo qīn
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1 to cut flesh from one's thigh to nourish a sick parent (idiom)
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2 filial thigh-cutting
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
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)
惨淡经营
cǎn dàn jīng yíng
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1 to manage by painstaking effort (idiom)
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)
死马当活马医
sǐ mǎ dàng huó mǎ yī
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1 lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom)
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2 fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation
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
病急乱投医
bìng jí luàn tóu yī
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1 lit. to turn to any doctor one can find when critically ill (idiom); fig. to try anyone or anything in a crisis
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
讳疾忌医
huì jí jì yī
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1 hiding a sickness for fear of treatment (idiom); fig. concealing a fault to avoid criticism
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2 to keep one's shortcomings secret
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3 to refuse to listen to advice
身经百战
shēn jīng bǎi zhàn
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1 lit. veteran of a hundred battles (idiom)
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2 fig. experienced
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3 seasoned