荒芜 | huāng wú | left to return to unchecked growth; overgrown; grown wild | |
芜杂 | wú zá | miscellaneous; mixed and disorderly (of writing); disordered and confusing; mixed-up and illogical | |
芜菁 | wú jīng | turnip | |
去芜存菁 | qù wú cún jīng | lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers; to separate the wheat from the chaff (idiom) | |
繁芜 | fán wú | wordy; verbose; flourishing and thriving |
1 | Now you've gone away, only emptiness remains. | |
2 | A cousin of cabbage and broccoli, kohlrabi is turnip-like root vegetable that is either light green or purple and white striped. | |
3 | “当时我是一名顾客,他是一名可靠的装冰工人,刚离开装着芜青的卡车”,尼德霍夫回忆,“我可是一名响当当的纽约大作家,而他很明显是一个来自中西部的乡巴佬。 "I was a customer, and he was a trusty icer, recently off the turnip truck, " Niederhoffer recalled. "I was a brazen New York JAP, and he was a totally oblivious rube from the Midwest. | |
4 | But when the immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips . | |
5 | During and after the period there have appeared two trends in the studies, irrelevantly complicated and unconvincing proposals; too much emphasis on archaeology materials. |