典故
典故
diǎn gù
classical story or quote from the literature
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Definitions
- classical story or quote from the literature
Example Sentences
这个成语有一个古老的典故。
Zhège chéngyǔ yǒu yī gè gǔlǎo de diǎngù
This idiom has an ancient allusion
Related Words
古典文学(gǔ diǎn wén xué)· classical literature
→掉书袋(diào shū dài)· lit. to drop a bag of books (idiom); fig. to drop quotations to appear learned
→林纾(Lín Shū)· Lin Shu (1852-1924), writer and influential translator and adaptor of vast swathes of Western literature into classical Chinese
→之乎者也(zhī hū zhě yě)· four common characters of classical Chinese (idiom); fig. semi-incomprehensible talk
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