格林尼治
Gé lín ní zhì
Pinyin
Definition
格林尼治
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- Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude)
- refers to Greenwich mean time
Character Decomposition
Idioms (16)
以其人之道,还治其人之身
- 1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game
- 2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine
单丝不成线,独木不成林
- 1 one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest (idiom)
封沙育林
- 1 to plant trees in order to stabilize sand (idiom)
文治武功
- 1 political and military achievements (idiom)
杞梓之林
- 1 forest of wolfberry and catalpa (Lycium chinense and Catalpa ovata, idiom); fig. great quantity of talent