夜莺 (夜鶯)
yè yīng
Pinyin
Definition
夜莺 (夜鶯)
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- nightingale
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
俾夜作昼
- 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
- 2 work especially hard
俾昼作夜
- 1 to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
夙夜匪懈
- 1 to work from morning to night (idiom)
夙兴夜寐
- 1 to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard
- 2 to study diligently
- 3 to burn the candle at both ends
夜不归宿
- 1 to stay out all night (idiom)
Sample Sentences
原来人性含有两面：其一是男性的，其一是女性的；其一如苍鹰，如飞瀑，如怒马；其一如夜莺，如静池，如驯羊。
So it turns out that humanity has two sides: the first is masculine, the other is feminine; the first is like a goshawk, like a gushing waterfall, like a bucking bronco; the other is like a nightingale, like a placid lake, like a tame goat.