科迪勒拉山系
Kē dí lè lā shān xì
Pinyin
Definition
科迪勒拉山系
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- Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian islands
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 refers to Dr Sun Yat-sen
- 2 Zhongshan, prefecture-level city in Guangdong, close to Sun Yat-sen's birthplace
- 3 Nakayama (Japanese surname)
- 1 to connect
- 2 to relate to
- 3 to tie up
- 4 to bind
- 5 to be (literary)
- 1 Tangshan prefecture level city in Hebei
- 1 surname Shan
Idioms (20)
一山不容二虎
- 1 lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom)
- 2 fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us
- 3 (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive
不识泰山
- 1 can't recognize Mt Taishan (idiom); fig. not to recognize a famous person
不显山不露水
- 1 lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts
他山之石可以攻玉
- 1 lit. the other mountain's stone can polish jade (idiom); to improve oneself by accepting criticism from outside
- 2 to borrow talent from abroad to develop the nation effectively
兵败如山倒
- 1 troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse