莫言
Mò Yán
Pinyin

Definition

莫言
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Mò Yán
  1. Mo Yan (1955-), Chinese novelist, winner of 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

留言
liú yán
  1. 1 to leave a message
  2. 2 to leave one's comments
  3. 3 message
箴言
zhēn yán
  1. 1 admonition
  2. 2 exhortation
  3. 3 dictum
  4. 4 the biblical Book of Proverbs
莫
Mò
  1. 1 surname Mo
莫名
mò míng
  1. 1 indescribable
  2. 2 ineffable
莫名其妙
mò míng qí miào
  1. 1 (idiom) baffling
  2. 2 inexplicable

Idioms (20)

一夫当关，万夫莫开
yī fū dāng guān , wàn fū mò kāi
  1. 1 one man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies (idiom)
一言一动
yī yán yī dòng
  1. 1 (one's) every word and deed (idiom)
一言一行
yī yán yī xíng
  1. 1 every word and action (idiom)
一言不发
yī yán bù fā
  1. 1 to not say a word (idiom)
一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight

Sample Sentences

你还记得当初莫言获诺贝尔奖时的情景吗？只要书上写着莫言两个字，就保准供不应求。
nǐ hái jìde dāngchū Mòyán huò Nuòbèiěrjiǎng shí de qíngjǐng ma ？zhǐyào shū shàng xiě zhe Mòyán liǎng gè zì ，jiù bǎo zhǔn gōngbùyìngqiú 。
I still remember the situation when Mo Yan had just won the Nobel Prize. If a book had the characters Mo Yan on it, then demand would outdo supply.
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对啊，我记得当时莫言获奖的作品是一部叫《蛙》的长篇小说，这部小说一夜之间就成了最畅销的书籍，但谁又能说它比莫言其他的作品更优秀呢？
duìa ，wǒ jìde dāngshí Mòyán huòjiǎng de zuòpǐn shì yī bù jiào 《Wā 》de chángpiān xiǎoshuō ，zhè bù xiǎoshuō yīyèzhījiān jiù chéng le zuì chàngxiāo de shūjí ，dàn shéi yòu néng shuō tā bǐ Mòyán qítā de zuòpǐn gèng yōuxiù ne ？
Yes, I remember at the time that the work that Mo Yan won the prize for was a full-length novel called Frog and it became a bestseller overnight, but who is to say it's better than any of his other works?
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是啊，在我的印象中，莫言的成名作应该是《红高粱》、《丰乳肥臀》等作品。
shì a ，zài wǒ de yìnxiàng zhōng ，Mòyán de chéngmíngzuò yīnggāi shì 《Hónggāoliáng 》、《Fēngrǔféidún 》děng zuòpǐn 。
Yes, as I remember it, Mo Yan became famous for works like Red Sorghum and Big Breasts and Wide Hips.
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确实如此，莫言的作品大多带着浓厚的乡土气息，作品中充满了对家乡的复杂情感，被归类为“寻根文学”。
quèshí rúcǐ ，Mòyán de zuòpǐn dàduō dài zhe nónghòu de xiāngtǔ qìxī ，zuòpǐn zhōng chōngmǎn le duì jiāxiāng de fùzá qínggǎn ，bèi guīlèi wèi “xúngēn wénxué ”。
That is the case, the majority of Mo Yan's work is suffused with a strong nativist sensitivity. The work is full of complex feelings towards one's homeplace and is categorized as "root-seeking literature".
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我认为，莫言生活的那个时代很辛苦，但他总能以一种调侃、自嘲的方式来描述那些苦难，给人一种笑中有泪，泪中有笑的体会。
wǒ rènwéi ，Mòyán shēnghuó de nàge shídài hěn xīnkǔ ，dàn tā zǒng néng yǐ yīzhǒng tiáokǎn 、zìcháo de fāngshì lái miáoshù nàxiē kǔnàn ，gěi rén yīzhǒng xiào zhōng yǒu lèi ，lèi zhōng yǒu xiào de tǐhuì 。
I think, the era in which Mo Yan lived was very difficult, but he is always able to make use of a satiric, self mocking way of describing these difficulties, making people feel melancholy amid laughter and laugh through their tears.
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哈哈，告诉你一个秘密，莫言曾经到我们学校做过演讲。幸亏那时他还没得诺贝尔文学奖，不然就不一定请得到咯。
hāhā ，gàosu nǐ yī gè mìmì ，Mòyán céngjīng dào wǒmen xuéxiào zuò guò yǎnjiǎng 。xìngkuī nàshí tā hái méi dé Nuòbèiěr wénxué jiǎng ，bùrán jiù bùyīdìng qǐng de dào lo 。
Ha ha, I'll tell you a secret. Mo Yan once came to our school to make a speech. Luckily at that time he hadn't won the Nobel Prize, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to get him to visit.
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看来你对莫言的了解还挺多啊。
kànlai nǐ duì Mòyán de liǎojiě hái tǐng duō ā 。
It looks as if you know an awful lot about Mo Yan.
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