秀美
xiù měi
Pinyin
Definition
秀美
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- elegant
- graceful
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一枝独秀
- 1 lit. only one branch of the tree is thriving (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be in a league of one's own
- 3 outstanding
价廉物美
- 1 inexpensive and of good quality (idiom)
两全其美
- 1 to satisfy rival demands (idiom)
- 2 to get the best of both worlds
- 3 to have it both ways
- 4 to have one's cake and eat it too
十全十美
- 1 complete and beautiful
- 2 to be perfect (idiom)
天公不作美
- 1 Heaven is not cooperating (idiom)
- 2 the weather is not favorable for the planned activity
Sample Sentences
所谓雄伟和秀美,所谓外向和内向,所谓戏剧型的和图画型的,所谓戴奥尼苏斯艺术和阿波罗艺术,所谓“金刚怒目,菩萨低眉”,所谓“静如处女,动如脱兔”,姚姬传所谓的阳刚和阴柔,都无非是这两种气质的注脚。
Majesty and grace, extroversion and introversion, theater and painting, Dionysusian art and Apollonian art, the fierce stare of an attendant of the Buddha and the lowered gaze of the Bodhisattva, or the coyness of the maid and the rapidity of the rabbit from 'The Nine Situations' in Sunzi's Art of War, and Yao Nai's concept of masculine and feminine, are all but footnotes to these two aspects.