集腋成裘 | jí yè chéng qiú | many hairs make a fur coat (idiom); many small contributions add up to sth big; many a mickle makes a muckle | |
貂裘换酒 | diāo qiú huàn jiǔ | lit. to trade a fur coat for wine (idiom); fig. (of wealthy people) to lead a dissolute and extravagant life | |
裘力斯·恺撒 | qiú lì sī · kǎi sǎ | Julius Caesar, 1599 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亚 | |
肥马轻裘 | féi mǎ qīng qiú | lit. stout horses and light furs; fig. to live in luxury | |
轻裘缓带 | qīng qiú huǎn dài | reposeful and scholarly (of a general in former times) (idiom) |
1 | Ask your date to give you some in-motion advice and perhaps even pick up something small for each other. Trinkets only. | |
2 | Earlier this summer, Jo Thompson, a mother of five, wrote of her dream to travel overland to Australia. Now she is ready to set off. | |
3 | Just for today, I am a guest at the world' s most perfect island resort. I feel less like Jo Thompson than I would have thought possible. | |
4 | This puts "Years of Red Dust" at something of a disadvantage because many of the stories Qiu tells are already quite familiar in the West. | |
5 | When we reached the downstream end of the island and were about to get back into our inflatable rafts Cho said, "Ed - look behind you". I turned and saw five canoes paddling up to us. |