莫泊桑
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Pinyin
Definition
莫泊桑
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- Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French novelist and short story writer
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一夫当关,万夫莫开
- 1 one man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies (idiom)
一辞莫赞
- 1 left speechless by sth perfect (idiom)
各人自扫门前雪,莫管他家瓦上霜
- 1 sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roof (idiom)
哀莫大于心死
- 1 nothing sadder than a withered heart (idiom attributed to Confucius by Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuāng zǐ])
- 2 no greater sorrow than a heart that never rejoices
- 3 the worst sorrow is not as bad as an uncaring heart
- 4 nothing is more wretched than apathy
失之东隅,收之桑榆
- 1 to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom)
- 2 to compensate later for one's earlier loss
- 3 what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts