车到山前必有路,船到桥头自然直 (車到山前必有路,船到橋頭自然直)
chē dào shān qián bì yǒu lù , chuán dào qiáo tóu zì rán zhí
Pinyin
Definition
车到山前必有路,船到桥头自然直 (車到山前必有路,船到橋頭自然直)
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- lit. When we get to the mountain, there'll be a way through and when the boat gets to the pier-head, it will go straight with the current. (idiom)
- fig. Everything will turn out for the best.
- Let's worry about it when it happens.
- It will be all right on the night.
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 straight (in a straight line)
- 2 continuously
- 3 always
- 4 from the beginning of ... up to ...
- 5 all along
- 1 to (a place)
- 2 until (a time)
- 3 up to
- 4 to go
- 5 to arrive
- 6 (verb complement denoting completion or result of an action)
- 1 front
- 2 forward
- 3 ahead
- 4 first
- 5 top (followed by a number)
- 6 future
- 7 ago
- 8 before
- 9 BC (e.g. 前293年)
- 10 former
- 11 formerly
- 1 unexpectedly
- 2 to one's surprise
- 3 go so far as to
- 1 to get
- 2 to obtain
- 3 to receive
Idioms (20)
一不做,二不休
- 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
- 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
- 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
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
一个天南,一个地北
- 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一传十,十传百
- 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
- 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一则以喜,一则以忧
- 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)