瑞士人
Ruì shì rén
Pinyin
Definition
瑞士人
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- Swiss (person)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一人得道，鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一鸣惊人
- 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
三人成虎
- 1 three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact
三人行，必有我师
- 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
- 2 you have sth to learn from everyone
三个女人一台戏
- 1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
Sample Sentences
据说发明这个游戏的是瑞士人。不过一直都没有引起人们的注意。八十年代日本杂志出版商把它引入日本，增加了游戏难度，当然也起了个日文名字，就是“sudoku” 数独。后来这个游戏就在日本和美国走红了。
They say it was a Swiss person that invented the game, but it never attracted any attention. In the 80's a Japanese magazine publisher imported it to Japan, increased the difficulty of the game, and of course gave it a Japanese name: ``sudoku." Later the game got popular in Japan and the United States.