麦尔维尔 (麥爾維爾)
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Definition
麦尔维尔 (麥爾維爾)
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- Melville (name)
- Herman Melville (1819-1891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白鯨|白鲸[bái jīng]
Character Decomposition
Idioms (12)
不辨菽麦
- 1 lit. cannot tell beans from wheat (idiom); fig. ignorant of practical matters
不过尔尔
- 1 not more than so-so (idiom); mediocre
- 2 nothing out of the ordinary
出尔反尔
- 1 old: to reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one's word
- 2 to blow hot and cold
- 3 to contradict oneself
- 4 inconsistent
卓尔不群
- 1 standing above the common crowd (idiom); outstanding
- 2 excellent and unrivaled
咸与维新
- 1 everyone participates in reforms (idiom)
- 2 to replace the old with new
- 3 to reform and start afresh