A Chinese-English dictionary / by Herbert Allen Giles.

  • Herbert Giles
Date:
1912
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Credit: A Chinese-English dictionary / by Herbert Allen Giles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    om 氣4 1064 有氣度 to be very energetic and ambitious. 氣度宏遠 .his capacity and ambition were great and far- reaching. 氣壯 firm; bold. 善觀氣色 a physiognomist; one who tells fortunes by the face. 他是我們同氣he is cne of us. 氣數 a person’s power of resist¬ ing noxious influences, said to be either [|J vigorous or feeble = fate; destiny. 一鼻孔出氣。nly cne nostril between them,—of friends who hold similar opinions. —•鼓作 the first stroke .oi the drum inflamed their ardour'； 願作氣以助揮毫1 (wish you would put on a little (martial) ardour, to help me in painting (your portrait),—a pain¬ ter to a general. 一氣 _ 靡 T ./poured it down at a dr难gfeL 與人會氣 td,l6或ve ah under¬ standing, or be in coilusion, with someone. 通氣 the power going through, —in connection/ as a line of pawns on a ches豸 board placed so that each is supported by the one that follows; in communi¬ cation with, as two towns. Also, very sympathetic, as friends； to have an understanding; to form a “ring” in commerce. 楊氣 to make a display; to put on side. 骨骼有些道氣he is somewhat impregnated with Tao, .—under the influence of the doctrines associated with this term. 氣髙貌 haughty; arrogant. 氣迷心 goitre. 螺 a steam fog-horn. 氣柄。r氣餅 a piston. 氣管 a steam-pipe. 氣表 a stearti gauge. gj a steamer’s cylinder. 三連氣鼓 a triple expansion boiler. 1064 1065 r•物 See乞 Entering Upper. 威 io66 尺微 €. kci H.) \\r i- Idji chi N; P. M； v- i Sz.] K. k'ii J. hi A. S.H Even Upper & Lower. 杞' 1067 R•紙 C-) II. kt F- i W.) t. N.卜J P. chH M. chi^ chH Y. chH Sz. chi K. kii J. ki A. kLi Rising Upper. 氣水 aerated water. tlie condenser of an engine. 氣蓄 a steam-whistle. A fragrant plant or grass, the 气輿，said to be common in Yunnan under the name of 野 草香 wild sweet grass. Used for ofterings at the autumn festivals. The royal domain, as set apart for the Emperor. The Court. A threshold. Also read chi^ 邦畿千里維民所止 the royal domain of a thousand li is where the people stop. 阜 the Imperial domain; the Court. 畿輔.重地 the Court and its neighbourhood are places of the utmost importance,—in the sense of observing decorum within the precincts. 送 tC) accoinPany t0 the threshold. A kind of willow which grows by the water, with a coarse white leaf and small reddish veins. Also, a medlar tree. 以人性爲仁義猶以 祀柳爲桔棬 to develop charity and duty to one’s neigh¬ bour out of human； nature is like making a cup or bowl out of willow. 枸祀 the Lycium chinense—the juice of the berries of which is used for diseases of the eye. 無析我樹祀 do not break my willow treqs/ 陟彼北山，言采其祁 I ascended that hill in the north, to gather the medlars. See%*]02. 祀國 name of a、feudal State. 心多過慮，何異祀人 天 if you are over-anxious, ，what difference is there between you and the man of Ch‘i who was afraid that the sky might fall on him? 圮 ■ io68 R.紙 See祀 Rising Upper. 1069 R紙 Sec祀 Rising Upper. 1070 R•紙 C. hci H. hi F. kLi W. r ! p. M. Y. Sz. I K. kii J. ki A. ^c/, v. k^oi Rising Upper. cH 〖chH A stone ornament, hung* at the girdle. A variety of succory (Cichoriumthe 若葉 leaves of which are milky and can be eaten. Also, a kind of white millet ； grass - a prickly tree. To rise up. To raise. To start. To begin ； exor¬ dium, as opp. to peroration {see 1470). See {fj *2620, 死 10,280,承761 and 病9298. 起來get up. 起不來 he cannot get up. ^ knew that he would not get up,—recover from his illness. ；^中 c/tung、 小吏之額 jumped up and hit the petty clerk on the forehead,—of a ball. 起_居㈣2987)。1•起坐 rising and sitting,—the ordinary state or condition of a person, as being always either one or Other of these two. 他起坐不安he is not at all at his ease. 起身 to raise the body,—to get up, as from bed; to start. 起手 to raise the hand,—tc begin. 幾時起手when are we going to* begin ? 起工 to begin work. 起刀筆吏he began as a scribe. 幾時起轎 when does the chair start?一with the bride in it, z.e. when is the wedding to be ? 起錨 to weigh anchor. 起蓋 to begin to build. 起立 to stand up. Also, to set anything up. 起牀 to get out of bed.
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