土鳖 | tǔ biē | ground beetle; (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海归 , has never studied overseas; (dialect) country bumpkin | |
瓮中之鳖 | wèng zhōng zhī biē | lit. like a turtle in a jar; to be trapped (idiom) | |
瓮中捉鳖 | wèng zhōng zhuō biē | to catch a turtle in a jar (idiom); to set oneself an easy target; a turkey shoot | |
鳖甲 | biē jiǎ | turtle shell | |
龟笑鳖无尾 | guī xiào biē wú wěi | lit. a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail (idiom); fig. the pot calling the kettle black |
1 | Its stores sell live turtles and toads. | |
2 | Aquatic product category: Carp, carp, sea eel , turtle, jellyfish. | |
3 | For when my wings were spread in the sun their shadow upon the earth was a turtle. | |
4 | How I could not have so much as got any Food, except Fish and Turtles; and that as it was long before I found any of them, I must have perish'd first. | |
5 | Some 43 new reptile species were discovered on New Guinea between 1998-2008: this includes 5 snakes 37 new lizard species and a soft-shelled turtle. |