Brokeback Mountain, 2005 English-language film by Ang Lee 李安[lǐ ān]
1. vertical section2. longitudinal section
(idiom) resourceful and decisive; resolute and sagacious
1. to split up2. to break all ties
to act on an opportunity (idiom); to take prompt advantage of a situation
arms enough to stem the stream (idiom); formidable army
1. lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom)2. fig. scene of devastation3. ruins
1. lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom)2. fig. scene of devastation3. ruins
1. lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom)2. fig. scene of devastation3. ruins
1. to die without progeny2. (offensive) may you die childless3. may you be the last of your family line
CT scan (computed tomography scan)
断线风筝 斷線風箏 duàn xiàn fēng zhēng a kite that is lost after its string breaks (metaphor for sb one never hears from anymore)
lit. cut sleeve (idiom); fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve.
1. rupture strength2. breaking strength
1. stopping and starting2. intermittent3. sporadic4. on and off+1 条 1. lit. to feel as if one's intestines have been cut short2. broken-hearted (idiom)
Hengduan mountains, several parallel mountain ranges on the border between west Yunnan and Sichuan and east Tibet
1. to decide and act alone (idiom); to take arbitrary action2. a law unto oneself
(idiom) to waver when decisiveness is needed
to make a decision when it's time to decide
眼穿肠断 眼穿腸斷 yǎn chuān cháng duàn waiting anxiously (idiom)
lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another
(idiom) able to read; literate
1. lit. kicking up the dust and breaking the harness2. fig. to ride like the wind (idiom)
1. lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom)2. fig. scene of devastation3. ruins
1. constantly in turmoil2. crisis after crisis
1. to default on a mortgage2. to stop supplying sth
1. (sports) to steal2. to intercept the ball
(of food) to be cooked just until no longer raw
(fashion retailing) available only in a limited range of less popular sizes
to cut off access to the Internet; to shut down the Internet
homosexual (a reference to Brokeback Mountain 断背山[duàn bèi shān], a 2005 movie about a same-sex relationship)
1. to judge (i.e. to hear and pass judgment in a law court)2. to hear and decide
to fall and fracture (a leg, vertebra etc)
to get blackout drunk (slang)
(of a fall in price, temperature etc) steep; precipitous
(neologism, attested by 2012) decluttering; minimalism (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 断捨離 "danshari", lit. "forgoing, discarding and letting go")
annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda)
1. (coll.) to suffer an alcohol-induced blackout2. to be unable to recall what one did while drunk
dead-end road; (fig.) impasse
king cobra or ghost chili (Naga jolokia)