十日谈 (十日談)
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Pinyin
Definition
十日谈 (十日談)
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- Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘[Bó jiā qiū]
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一五一十
- 1 lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
一传十,十传百
- 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
- 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳
- 1 bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
一日三秋
- 1 a single day apart seems like three seasons (idiom)
一日不见,如隔三秋
- 1 one day apart seems like three years (idiom)