A Chinese-English dictionary / by Herbert Allen Giles.

  • Herbert Giles
Date:
1912
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    OKC'EP^Ca- onEn>aro 乘2 7/o tsK'n M. 、• L Sz. ch、en K. sing J.咖 A. U、、’a、 Even & Sink 、ing Lower. 乘屋 to get up on the roof. 乘雲上天t0 rise on the clouds to heaven. 乘車 to ride in a cart. 乘馬 to ride on horseback. 乘船 to travel by boat; to embark. 乘其四骐 in his carriage drawn by four piebalds. 乘轎ot乘輿 riding in a chair. 乘陰陽二氣之军* rioted upon the due equilibrium of the Yin and Yang, 乘坐 to ride in. 乘上 ^ to mount and be off. 乘便 to avail oneself of the occasion. 因利乘便 to take advantage of an (Opportunity to do some¬ thing without trouble or outlay. 乘』陕or乘典to seize the opportunity of being in high spirits. 乘時乘間ot乘機會 to avail oneself of the time; to seize the opportunity. 乘其無備 to catch, him un¬ prepared. 乘風 to take advantage of th* wind. 不如乘勢 nothing like tak¬ ing the opportunity when you get it. 乘隙而A (the wind) avails itself of a crack to get in. 乘潮 to catch the tide. 乘凉 to get cool,—as by going into the shade, etc. 乘除 to multiply and divide; increase and decrease. 乘法 multiplication. [The Chi nese write their figures horizon¬ tally, and then begin from the left-hand end.] 用三乘之 multiply by three. 先乘狻歸 first multiply and then divide. See 6419. 乘以一•百 to multiply by 100. 歲月乘除the years and months pass. Read sheng^ or A numerative of vehicles 乘2 77° 77r R•徑 See盛 and temples. A team of four horses. Annals. Sinking Lower. 乘車 one cart] -乘寺 a temple or monastery. 在車千乘。ur prince’s cha¬ riots are one thousand. 乘c/’‘耐5乘馬rnoun- ted in his chariot and four. 發乘矢 shot four airrows. —^ the Three Conveyances,一 across the Sansara to the shores of Nirvana. Sanskrit Try Ana Also called the “Three Develop ments.” 大乘 the Great Conveyance,— the system developed by the northern Buddhists of India, about the time of the Christian era. It is this form of Buddhism which prevails in China. Sanskrit Mahay&na. 小乘 the Small Conveyance,- is based upon the original books of Buddhism, and is the system of the Southern Buddhists and of the Cingalese. Sanskrit Hi- naydna. 中乘 the Middle Conveyance, 一is for those who are half way between the Great and Small Conveyances. Sanskrit Madhi. mdydna. 辕上乘ot最上乘t。 attain the highest point. Used for “esoteric” as opposed to “exoteric” knowledge of Bud¬ dhism. 遇上乘之人反說下 乘之！^ to expound the exo¬ teric to one who already knows the esoteric,一to teach one’s grandmother to suck eggs. 晉之乘 the annals of Chin, ^ ^ family annals. 史乘 historical records. 碑乘 old tablet records. A District in 邵興府 in Chehkiang, south-west of Ningpo. m 772 R•蒸 See曾 Even Lower. m 773 r•庚 C,ch、ang H. ts、en F. teing W. dzae N. dzeng P. ch、hi、chLeng M.) Y. J ts^en Sz.) Y^.ch'dng^cheng J. to、cho A.traing Even Lower. 橙2 774 R•庚 H. I ch'anS F. cbeing W. dzaey v. 三 dzae N. dzang P. ch^eng M. K Y. J K. ching^ cheng J. td^ djo A. traing Even Lower. w 775 R•藏 /anr C. chHng、teng1 H. chHn F. teing、ting ^'i dzins P. ch^eng^ teng M. ts^en^ tsen^ K. ching J. cho. djo A. tririg Even Lower. To geld a stallion. 攻特謂.之顧1 to operate on a stallion is called chlhtg\ A prop ； a stay. Door posts. A rule. To follow. 槇柱 a side post or pillar. • a staff to walk with. 申槇 a native of 魯 Lu arid a disciple of Confucius, who said of him that he was subject to his passions. 企門植 to stand on tip-toe on the door-sill. The common orange (Citrus aurantiurn) or coo¬ lie orange, poetically known as the 金球 golden ball. 甘橙 sweet oranges from 會 ,a District south-west of| Canton. 皮 dried orange peel. 提 orange sweetmeats, orange marmalade, |l| a wild fruit of the dog¬ bane family {Melodinus\ like an orange in shape and colour, growing on a creeper found in Kuangtung. Clear ； limpid ； pure. To make clear, as water. Also read teng^. Same as 779. 澄淸 transparent; clear; to clarify; hence, a state of peace. 月澄明 clear as the moon. 潑a clear stream. 澄波 the limpid wave. 把這水澄一澄 this water clear,—by settling the mud with alum as the Chinese do. 潘心紙 a transparent kind of| paper used by EE Hsu Hsi, a painter of the S. T‘ang State, a.d. 950.
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