风雨 (風雨)
 fēng yǔ
 Pinyin
Definition
风雨 (風雨)
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              - wind and rain
- the elements
- trials and hardships
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一雨成秋
  - 1 a sudden shower towards the end of summer brings an abrupt arrival of autumn (idiom)
干打雷,不下雨
  - 1 all thunder but no rain (idiom)
- 2 a lot of noise but no action
呼风唤雨
  - 1 to call the wind and summon the rain (idiom); to exercise magical powers
- 2 fig. to stir up troubles
唤雨呼风
  - 1 to call the wind and summon the rain (idiom)
- 2 to exercise magical powers
- 3 fig. to stir up troubles
- 4 also 呼風喚雨|呼风唤雨[hū fēng huàn yǔ]
天要落雨,娘要嫁人
  - 1 the rain will fall, the womenfolk will marry (idiom)
- 2 fig. the natural order of things
- 3 something you can't go against
Sample Sentences
前进道路上,全国各族人民要在中国共产党领导下,坚持以马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论、"三个代表”重要思想、科学发展观为指导,沿着中国特色社会主义道路,按照“四个全面"战略布局,弘扬伟大的爱国主义精神,弘扬伟大的抗战精神,万众一心风雨无阻向着我们既定的目标继续奋勇前进!
  On the road head, all the peoples of the nation, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China will persist in Marxist-Leninism, Mao Zedong thought, Deng Xiaoping’s theories, the important thought of the “Three Represents”, the Scientific Outlook on Development, continuing down the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, with the Four-pronged Comprehensive Strategy, upholding the spirit of the war of resistance, a people united, rain, hail or shine, continuing to advance dauntlessly towards our established objective.
我心里有猛虎在细嗅蔷薇”。人生原是战场,有猛虎才能在逆流里立定脚跟,在逆风里把握方向,做暴风雨中的海燕,做不改颜色的孤星。
  "In me the tiger sniffs the rose". Life is a battleground, and having a fierce tiger in one's heart is the only way you can get a firm footing against the flow of the stream, and orient oneself in the wind, like a swallow in the storm, or a lone star that never changes its color.
怎么搞的啊!你们俩风风雨雨这么多年了,一起创业什么的,不是挺好的吗?
  How can this be? You two have been through so much all these years, started a business together and everything. Hasn't your relationship worked out great?