Showing posts with label Idioms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Idioms. Show all posts

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Italian idioms/ Espressioni idiomatiche italiane/意大利成语





Bagnato



Bagnato come un pulcino

Completamente bagnato, zuppo, come un pulcino uscito dall'uovo appena schiuso.






Piove sul bagnato

Si dice quando succede qualcosa di dannoso dove è già successo in precedenza.






Se non è zuppa è pan bagnato

Se non è un'opzione, è sicuramente l'altra.



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Asciutto




A bocca asciutta

Senza il bottino che si prevedeva di ottenere. Restare a bocca asciutta.






Gettare la spugna

Arrendersi. Deriva dal gergo del pugilato quando per arrendersi all'avversario si gettava simbolicamente la spugna usata dai "secondi" per lavare le ferite del combattimento (oggi si usa gettare sul ring un asciugamano).











Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Chinese idioms/Idiomi cinesi/中国成语



站干岸——不沾事(湿)
Stand on the dry bank——Not wet (get away from the problem)

湿手捏干面——沾上了
Squeezing dry flour with wet hands——Stained

干啼湿哭—gàn tí shī kū
无泪和有泪地哭。形容哭哭啼啼。
Cry with and without tears. This describes crying.

推干就湿—tuī gàn jiù shī
形容抚育孩子的辛劳。
This describes what the hard work of bringing up children.

煨干就湿—wēi gàn jiù shī
指幼儿溺床,母亲宁可以身就湿,使小儿卧处常干。极言抚育孩子的辛苦。
This refers to the children bed-wetting, and mother chooses to lay in the wet areas, so that the child lay in dry. This describes how hard to bring up children.

煨干避湿—wēi gàn bì shī
同“煨干就湿”。
The same as the “煨干就湿”

湿肉伴干柴—shī ròu bàn gān chái
形容拷打。
This describes torture.

水流湿,火就燥—shuǐ liú shī ,huǒ jiù zào
水向湿处流,火往干处烧。用以比喻事物发展的必然规律。
The water flow to the wet place and the fire become larger at the dry place. This is the metaphor for the inexorable law of development.




烟雨江南—yān yǔ jiāng nán
(Ancient Chinese poet like the artistic conception that stay by the window in a small dry house listening to the rain outside.)






诗,词/ Poem


《临安春雨初霁》 宋-陆游
世味年来薄似纱,谁令骑马客京华?
小楼一夜听风雨,深巷明朝卖杏花。
矮纸斜行闲作草,晴窗细乳戏分茶。
素衣莫起风尘叹,犹及清明可到家。

Today the relationship of human is so distant, but I have come to Jinghua by riding.
Hearing the sound of rain in a small building all night, I know that there will be apricot blossom selling outside tomorrow.
I am bored to write cursive placed at an angle brush on a short piece of paper.
Watching the tea when the water showed small white foam beside the window, I distinguish the level of tea.
As Ordinary people, be not plaint busyness. I can get home in Qingming Festival.


《春夜喜雨》 唐-杜甫
好雨知时节,当春乃发生。
随风潜入夜,润物细无声。

This rain seems to choose the right time when the plant germinate and grow.
With the wind, the rain moistens things quietly in the night.


《如梦令》 宋-李清照
昨夜雨疏风骤,
浓睡不消残酒。
试问卷帘人,却道海棠依旧。
知否,
知否,
应是绿肥红瘦。

It was a bad weather last night, I Slept by drinking.
The maid told me that the begonia that were still there.
Don't you see, don’t you see
The red is thin as the green is fat.



落花随流水—luò huā suí liú shuǐ
(The flowers fall in the water after the Rain, a scenery at a low ebb. Ancient Chinese poet like to use this to express sad feelings.)



Idioms/Idiomi/成语



Wet

All wet (American informal)

The meaning of the english idiom – All wet
Completely wrong






 
 
 
Can’t dance and it’s too wet to plow
 
The meaning of the english idiom – Can’t dance and it’s too wet to plow
(USA) When you can’t dance and it’s too wet to plow, you may as well do something because you can’t or don’t have the opportunity to do anything else.
Similar English and Irish sayings:
  • Dancing on someone’s grave
  • Make a song and dance
  • He dances well to whom fortune pipes





 
 

Get your feet wet

The meaning of the english idiom – Get your feet wet
If you get your feet wet, you gain your first experience of something.
Similar English and Irish sayings:
  • Find your feet
  • The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet
  • Cut your teeth on 





     
     
     
    Wet behind the ears

    The meaning of the english idiom – Wet behind the ears
    Someone who is wet behind the ears is either very young or inexperienced.
    Similar English and Irish sayings:
    • Prick up your ears
    • Be all ears 
     
     



       
       
       
      Wet blanket

      The meaning of the english idiom – Wet blanket
      A wet blanket is someone who tries to spoil other people’s fun.
      Similar English and Irish sayings:
      • Split the blanket
      • Spoil the ship for a ha’pworth of tar
      • Wet behind the ears
       
       



         
         
         
        Wet your whistle

        The meaning of the english idiom – Wet your whistle
        If you are thirsty and have an alcoholic drink, you wet your whistle. “Whet your whistle” is also used.
        Similar English and Irish sayings:
        • Clean as a whistle
        • Blow the whistle
        • A man cannot whistle and drink at the same time
         
         
         






        Dry

        As dry as a bone

        The meaning of the english idiom – As dry as a bone
        Completely dry






         

        Before the ink is dry
        The meaning of the english idiom – Before the ink is dry
        If people make an agreement or contract and then the situation changes very quickly, it changes before the ink is dry.
        Similar English and Irish sayings:
        • Keep your powder dry
        • Hang out to dry
        • Watching paint dry



         
         
         
        Bone dry 

        The meaning of the english idiom – Bone Dry
        Completely dry.



         
         
        Dry as a bone

        The meaning of the english idiom Dry as a bone
        If your lawn is as dry as a bone, the soil is completely dry.
        Similar English and Irish sayings:
        • All skin and bone
        • Chew on a bone
        • Throw someone a bone


         
         

        Dry as snuff

        The meaning of the english idiom Dry as snuff
        If something is as dry as snuff, it is very dry indeed.
        Similar English and Irish sayings:
        • Up to snuff
        • Dry as a bone
        • He that has it and will not keep it; he that wants it and will not seek it; he that drinks and is not dry, shall want money as well as I 
         
         



           
           

          Dry run 

          The meaning of the english idiom Dry run
          A dry run is a full rehearsal or trial exercise of something to see how it will work before it is launched.
          Similar English and Irish sayings:
          • You never miss the water till the well runs dry
          • Dry spell
          • Keep your powder dry



           
           
           
          Dry spell

          The meaning of the english idiom Dry spell
          If something or someone is having a dry spell, they aren’t being as successful as they normally are.
          Similar English and Irish sayings:
          • Good spell
          • On a roll
          • Get the axe



           
           
           
          Hang out to dry

          The meaning of the english idiom – Hang out to dry
          If you hang someone out to dry, you abandon them when they are in trouble.
          Similar English and Irish sayings:
          • Hanged for a sheep as a lamb
          • Throw someone to the wolves
          • Low-hanging fruit 
           
           



             
             
             
            Keep your powder dry

            The meaning of the english idiom – Keep your powder dry
            If you keep your powder dry, you act cautiously so as not to damage your chances.
            Similar English and Irish sayings:
            • Powder your nose
            • He who goes into a mill comes out powdered 
             




             
             
             
            Not a dry eye (spoken)

            The meaning of the english idiom – Not a dry eye
            Used for saying that something makes everyone in a place feel strong emotion



             
             
            Watching paint dry

            The meaning of the english idiom – Watching paint dry
            If something is like watching paint dry, it is really boring.
            Similar English and Irish sayings:
            • Watch grass grow
            • Painted Jezebel