Text matches for “人”

a tide of people

(lit.) to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom) / (fig.) to be at sb's mercy

anthrosol (soil taxonomy)

lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom) / fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich

nobody is perfect / everyone has their defect

(saying) a person cannot become wealthy without windfall profits (or ill-gotten gains etc), just as a horse cannot get fat without night feed

He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects). / Smug concentration on the here and now will lead to future sorrow.

sign of human habitation

no sign of human habitation (idiom) / desolate

(idiom) densely populated

father (as a social role)

human barricade / (soccer) defensive wall

portrayal

person who is passed back and forth, with nobody willing to look after them (e.g. a child of divorced parents) / (esp.) patient who gets shuttled from hospital to hospital, each of which refuses to admit the patient for treatment

person and lute have both vanished (idiom) / death of a close friend

very old person / venerable old person

Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence

it's a small world (idiom)

to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom) / in an unfamiliar place without friends or family

life is but a dream (idiom)

human life as the morning dew (idiom) / fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence

life mentor

human life as the morning dew (idiom) / fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence

everything is unfamiliar

zoonosis

employ one's talent to the fullest / everyone gives of their best

(idiom) (of a woman) promiscuous / loose

(idiom) known to everyone

physiognomy

physiognomy (judgment of a person's fate, character etc, based on facial features)

human shield

(neologism, attested by 2023) (slang) the Chinese people, seen as a resource that is exploited for its value to the nation

man-made disaster

personal pronoun

(idiom) poor but with great ambitions / poor but principled

poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition

man proposes, God disposes (idiom) / one's plans can be derailed by unforeseen events

sophisticate / man with extensive experience / child prodigy / Wunderkind (i.e. brilliant child) / spirit within a person (i.e. blood and essential breath 血氣|血气 of TCM)

lit. each household provided for, enough for the individual (idiom) / comfortably off

specialized crowd management vehicle, a riot control vehicle equipped with a water cannon, commonly known as water cannon vehicle 水炮車|水炮车[shuǐ pào chē]