奉为圭臬 | fèng wéi guī niè | to take as a guiding principle (idiom) | |
兀臬 | wù niè | variant of 杌陧 | |
臬台 | niè tái | provincial judge (in imperial China) | |
臬氧 | niè yǎng | ozone (O3); erroneous form of 臭氧 |
1 | Are you going to the beach this saturday afternoon? | |
2 | They exude the stale mustiness of library bookshelves without the passion of the great literature those libraries contain. | |
3 | I can't even begin to imagine what it must have been like in the trenches, living amongst the stench of death and knowing that at any moment it may be your last. | |
4 | He then summoned the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers , judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials to come to the dedication of the image he had set up. | |
5 | Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. |