A Chinese-English dictionary / by Herbert Allen Giles.

  • Herbert Giles
Date:
1912
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    m 1059 ?•霽 :.ts^ai ■LtjH ^ cfCit'i、kie^ W. fs%v. cie、 ST. ts'-i \ chH Vf, chH >Z. ^ch>t f. sei Sinking Upper. 乞‘, io6o R•物末 C. het H，ngiet、hat F. J^ouk W. (f'iai cHh P. cc/iH M. chH Y. ch、ik 5z. chH K. it/, k'ol f. kitsz、kochi A. k、U Entering Upper. A stone step; ornamental tiles, used in steps. To raise in layers, as a wall. To pave. 階砌 stone steps. 玉硕 a white marble step. 硕牆 to build a wall. 硕墳 to make a grave. 湖不直 not built straight. 砌石路 to pave with slabs of! stone. 砌詞揑控 to heap up false accusations against any one. 硕告硕控ot硕飾1。 concoct charges. To beg for alms. To implore. To give. ^ ^ to beg for food. 乞子。r乞兒。r乞丐a beggar. 乞丐馬猴，猴馬乞丐 the pot calling the kettle black. 乞 士 a mendicant Buddhist priest; a bhiksku. 內乞 the mendicant 'bhikshu who controls his nature by the Law of Buddha. 外乞the mendicant bhikshu who controls his body by the food he eats. 伏乞 to humbly beg. 乞恩 to implore favour; to ask for mercy, 乞企 to anxiously entreat. 求乞。1■乞懇 tQ implore. 夸爲示知1 beg you t0 inform me. 乞救 to implore help. 乞米 to beg for food. 乞初^ to tender one’s resignation 乞身。r乞假t。ask for leave of absence. 乞巧 to beg (the Weaver God¬ dess) for skill,一in needlework. 穿乞巧之針 to thread the needle of cleverness. This was done by the ladies of the palace under the T‘ang dynasty on the 7th of the 7 th moon. Holding a needle up to the moon, each 乞 io6o 吃 io6i 气； 1062 R.寘 See SinkingUpper. •1063 R.質 See紘 K. ki/y hil J. kitsz A. hout^ Entering Upper. 每4 1064 r.未 C. hei H. hi F. k、ei、kH W. N. P. M. Y. Sz. K. kii ].ki A. kH cH chH Sinking Upper. would try in turn to thread it; and whoever succeeded was ac¬ counted the most skilful needle¬ woman. 乞頭t。 arrange a gambling party, and then to take so tnuch per cent 頭水on the win¬ nings for the special purpose of providing some friend of the party with funds. 乞我 give it to me. See 1949. Breath ； vapour. Radical 84. See ^ 1064. A tribe of 苗子 Miao- tzu，known as 矻他still found existing in the pro¬ vince of Kueichou. 讫猩兒 a ground-squirrel found in northern China. The vivifying principle or aura of Chinese cos¬ mogony. Breath ； vapour; air; steam;二 the Greek nviv[j.a^ and should be used for the Holy Ghost. The vital fluid. Force. Influ¬ ence. Temper ； feelings. 福37。7，贍 10.629, 香 4256，財 ii，500, 神 9819,派8583,韻 13.842- 天地有正氣，雜然賦 流形 there is in the universe an aura, which permeates all things and makes them what they. are. 正氣 the “particle of the divine gale，’’一in which sense Mencius seems to use 浩然之氣- 氣士 1064 人之生也以食爲氣， 草木生也以土爲 man derives his vitality from food, plants from the earth. 二氣 the Dual Powers,一the 陰 Yin and the 陽 Ya?ig} of male and female, positive and nega¬ tive, principles. 五氣 the Five Vapours, — as proceeding from 雨rain，陽 sunshine,癖 heat，寒 cold, and 風 wind. 六氣 the Six Influences,—the Yin and the Yang, \\ ind, rain, light, and darkness. 二十四氣。i■節氣the twenty-four solar terms. See Tables、Va, and 1477. 氣候 a solar term; a period of fifteen days between the begin¬ ning of one solar term and the end of the next; climate; weather. 氣候頓暖 the weather sud¬ denly became warm. 以寧候之早because of the earliness of the season. 明發_候玫 dawn comes, and with it a change of tem¬ perature. 天氣 weather; temperature. 地氣 or climate. } 地有氣脈 the earth has vital fluid pulses,—which the Chinese say produce minerals, vegetables, etc., and act upon the health. 望氣 to consider the influences, I —as a geomancer. 土 exhalations from tne ground; miasma. 人氣 the constitution or crasis I of humanity. 有天子氣 this piace] has an I Imperial atmosphere,——i.e. likely to produce an Emperor. ^ to hold the breath. 沒有氣兒 to swoon; to faint. I :氣 g flavour. j to practise breathing,一in j a particular way, as the Taoists do, with a view to secure immor¬ tal life. See 4034. 飲氣而卒 to die a prey to I silent grief or resentment.
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