Results for “是”

being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public figures who are brazenly xenophobic but whose family live abroad)

duplicity / hypocrisy (idiom)

(coll.) exactly! / indeed / that's for sure

each one does what he thinks is right (idiom) / each goes his own way

to follow obediently

unity is strength (revolutionary slogan and popular song of 1943)

there's no shortage / there are plenty

Failure is the mother of success.

a woman's virtue is to have no talent (idiom)

thus

so I have heard (idiom) / the beginning clause of Buddha's quotations as recorded by his disciple, Ananda (Buddhism)

friend or foe? (quote from 沙家浜[Shā jiā bāng]) (蔣|蒋[Jiǎng] here refers to Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiǎng Jiè shí] and 汪[Wāng] refers to Wang Jingwei 汪精衛|汪精卫[Wāng Jīng wèi])

Actual practice is the sole criterion for judging truth (item from Deng Xiaoping theory, from 1978)

especially / most of all / above all / in particular

(formal) very / quite / deeply (usu. followed by a two-syllable adjective or verb)

see 唯命是從|唯命是从[wéi mìng shì cóng]

to stir up trouble

(Internet slang) I can't even... / Are you kidding me! / OMG!

lit. both the palm and the back of the hand are made of flesh (idiom) / fig. to both be of equal importance / to value both equally

to incite a quarrel (idiom) / to sow discord between people / to tell tales / to make mischief

to incite a quarrel (idiom) / to sow discord between people / to tell tales / to make mischief

to stir up trouble / to provoke angry exchange

all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)

is both ...(and...) / since / as / being the case that

to distinguish right and wrong (idiom)

lit. time is a butcher's knife / fig. time marches on, relentless and unforgiving / nothing gold can stay

there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom) / one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things

(as a complete expression, or followed by 啦[la]) (coll.) Yeah, right! As if!

(before an adjective, to indicate superlative degree) the most ... / (literary) what exemplifies this particular quality to the highest degree is ...

lit. whoever provides milk is your mother (idiom) / fig. to follow whoever is feeding you / to put one's loyalties where one's interests lie

see 有奶便是娘[yǒu nǎi biàn shì niáng]

as they say, ... / as the saying goes, ...

probably / most likely

can be found everywhere

to seek the truth

silence is golden (idiom)

to confuse right and wrong (idiom)

for the sake of / for the purpose of

extremely / very

to go one's own way (idiom) / to act independently without asking others