A Chinese-English dictionary / by Herbert Allen Giles.

Herbert Giles

Date:: 1912

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

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$棄4 棄堯品 cast away as straw and stubble; to reject as worth- iii6 less. 乗 to cast away the remains of a dead man. 棄信負約 Vagrant breach of faith. w 1117 To weep =無聲出涕也- R•緝泣哭 to weep. C. yep W.hip 泣念0r泣-思to weep and F. k、dk think of. N. c^ih 數行卜 she shed some P. chH° M. hsi tears. Y. chHk chH 泣訴 to weep and tell one’s tale. K . k ip T hir. bri 说 M|J t0 tearfully implore. A. k'-ef Entering Upper. 炁‘ iii8 R•寘 See Sinking Upper. w: 1119 R•陌 C. kwik H. hit F. k^ik, v. k、iak、S.kf'iak \V. c^ia^ c^iai N. hsih、tsHh. v. hweh P. ch>i\ hsi) M. hsi Y. hsik Sz. hsi、chH K. kik J. keki、kioku A. kHk Entering Upper. 佇立而泣i stood still and wept. 泣涕to weep with snivel,一 which the Chinese regard as a sign of genuine grief. 泣血稽顙weeping blood (i.et bitterly) I knock my head on the ground before you,一a conventional phrase in a Chinese notice of death. Read Impetuous. 奈泣 rapid; swift. Used in Taoist charms and other writings for 1064. 煞炁 noxious influences, good influences. 一索化三淸。ut Of one force the Three Pure Ones were produced. See 淸2188. A fissure ； a crack; a chink. An opportunity; a pretext. A grudge ； a quarrel. Used for 1003, 1130.. [Correct form 隙•] 人生如白駒過隙the life of man is like a white colt (a sunbeam) passing a crack,一 gone -in a moment. 隙地 vacant or waste land. 伺隙圖財watching his opportunity to make profit. 蹈隙輙往 we went at every opportunity. 隙 iii9 镦 1120 w 1121 R•陌 C. kwik N. hsih K. hidk J. saku、shaku A. k'-ik Entering Upper. 1122 nti4 器 1123 R.寘 See Sinking Upper. 乘隙而入 he availed himself of that pretext to come in. 與人有隙 to have a grudge against a man. See 5184. 這兩人有隙there is split between these two men,- they have quarrelled. 開隙 to make the rift,—to begin the quarrel. 尋隙 to try to pick a quarrel. 于，中求隙 to be hyper¬ critical. Same as 1119. To terrify. Frightened, as when treading* on a tiger’s tail. A species of spider. 震來麟微the thunder claps are terrible. See 1551. A vessel ; a dish ; , a platter, etc. Implements ； utensils. Capacity ； ability. To employ. 美食不如美器 choice food is not so important as a choice service,—of bowls, dishes, chopsticks, etc. 器皿 plates, dishes, etc., 器具 utensils generally. 器材 materials, — for making things. 器物 things; utensils. 兵器。r器械 weapons. 用 implements; utensils. Also, useful; capable. 大器聣成 a great thing is slowly made,—Rome was not built in a day. 不成器的東西a * for-nothing fellow. See 762. 君子不器 the perfect man is not a thing,—e.g. a mere pot, or any thing which has but a 器 1123 HH •• 二 1124 答1 men ac- 1125 R•支 See |1^ Even Lower. single use or function; that is, he is not a function of one vari¬ able but of many. 大器 and 小器 are used for great characters and petty cha racters, respectively. 先自治而後治人之爲大器 to govern oneself first and others afterwards, that is to be a great man 琴琯有遠器Fang Kuan is a man of far-reaching ability, 眞宰相器也truly this man has ministerial capacities 深器之 thought very highly of him. 器重他 to regard him with reverence. 器.局不大方his way doing business is petty. 量才器使 employ cording to their abilities. 器量 large-minded; magnani mous; generous. 王公大所不能器卜 man whom) princes and nobles could not make use of,—his ideas being too lofty for this world. 神器 a divine article, — the Throne. Also, the soul. ^9819. 房中僞器an imitation 陽物• 見乃謂之象，形乃謂之器 becoming apparent is then termed figure, endowment with body is fhen termed form. 形而上者謂之道，形而下者fl之_ that which transcends matter is term ed law, that which supports matter is termed form. Same as 1123. Uneven, like the leaves of the bamboo.$

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