{"path":"/entry/102952","title":"跋前疐后 / 跋前疐後 (bá qián zhì hòu) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"跋前疐后 / 跋前疐後 (bá qián zhì hòu): see 跋胡疐尾 bá hú zhì wěi. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":102952,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["跋前疐后"],"TRADITIONAL":["跋前疐後"]}},"phonetic":"bá qián zhì hòu","phoneticKey":"ba2 qian2 zhi4 hou4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"see ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null},{"kind":"REF","text":null,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["跋胡疐尾"]}},"phonetic":"bá hú zhì wěi","phoneticKey":"ba2 hu2 zhi4 wei3","readingId":102958}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":[],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Originally from the Classic of Poetry (《詩》), 《豳風·狼跋》:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"First attested in the early 9th century in Han Yu's verse","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"狼跋其胡，载疐其尾。","traditional":"狼跋其胡，載疐其尾。"},"phonetic":"Láng bá qí hú, zǎi zhì qí wěi.","english":"The wolf springs forward on his dewlap,\nOr trips back on his tail.","ref":"The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"},{"text":{"simplified":"然而公不见信于人，私不见助于友，跋前疐后，动辄得咎。","traditional":"然而公不見信於人，私不見助於友，跋前疐後，動輒得咎。"},"phonetic":"Rán'ér gōng bù jiàn xìn yú rén, sī bù jiàn zhù yú yǒu, báqiánzhìhòu, dòngzhé dé jiù.","english":"Yet you, in public affairs, fail to gain the trust of others. In private, none of your friends are willing to help you. You go forward and step on your dewlap, and step back only to trip on your tail. As soon as you move at all, you incur fault upon yourself.","ref":"c. 813, Han Yu, \"On Encouraging Scholarship\" (《進學解》)"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}