ChinesePod

1 rivers and lakes
2 all corners of the country
3 remote areas to which hermits retreat
4 section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law
5 the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wǔ xiá])
6 (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc
7 demimonde
8 (in modern times) triads
9 secret gangster societies
10 underworld

江苏

Jiāng sū

1 Jiangsu province (Kiangsu) in southeast China, abbr. 蘇|苏, capital Nanjing 南京

Idioms (13)

人在江湖，身不由己

rén zài jiāng hú , shēn bù yóu jǐ

1 you can't always do as you like
2 one has to compromise in this world (idiom)

大江南北

Dà jiāng nán běi

1 north and south sides of the Yangtze River (idiom)
2 (fig.) all over China

指点江山

zhǐ diǎn jiāng shān

1 to talk idly about important matters (idiom)
2 to set the world to rights
3 to pass judgment on everything

文江学海

wén jiāng xué hǎi

1 river of literacy, sea of learning (idiom); ars longa, vita brevis

春江水暖鸭先知

chūn jiāng shuǐ nuǎn yā xiān zhī

1 lit. the duck is the first to know if the spring water is warm (idiom)
2 fig. an expert in the field knows which way the wind blows

Sample Sentences

欸，不错，其中最有分量的就是第三十一届江户川乱步奖，这是日本国内给予悬疑侦探小说家的最高荣誉。

ǎi ，bùcuò ，qízhōng zuì yǒu fènliang de jiùshì dì sānshíyī jiè jiānghù chuānluànbù jiǎng ，zhè shì Rìběn guónèi jǐyǔ xuányí zhēntàn xiǎoshuōjiā de zuì gāo róngyù 。

Ah, great, the biggest of those was the thirty first Edogawa Rampo Award, the highest award for thriller crime novels within Japan.

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