{"path":"/entry/103816","title":"车载斗量 / 車載斗量 (chē zài dǒu liáng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"车载斗量 / 車載斗量 (chē zài dǒu liáng): literally measured in cartloads and gallons. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":103816,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["车载斗量"],"TRADITIONAL":["車載斗量"]}},"phonetic":"chē zài dǒu liáng","phoneticKey":"che1 zai4 dou3 liang2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally measured in cartloads and gallons","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively by the barrowload ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(that is, lots and lots)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"innumerable","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN","ADJECTIVE"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[{"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["斗"],"TRADITIONAL":["斗"]}},"phonetic":"dǒu","primaryPhonetic":"dòu"},{"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["量"],"TRADITIONAL":["量"]}},"phonetic":"liáng","primaryPhonetic":"liàng"}],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"enough to fill carts and be measured by the bushel","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Book of Wu, quoted by Pei Songzhi in his annotations to The Records of the Three Kingdoms (《三國志·吳書·孫權傳》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"又曰：「吴如大夫者几人？」咨曰：「聪明特达者八九十人，如臣之比，车载斗量，不可胜数。」","traditional":"又曰：「吳如大夫者幾人？」咨曰：「聰明特達者八九十人，如臣之比，車載斗量，不可勝數。」"},"phonetic":"Yòu yuē: “Wú rú dàfū zhě jǐ rén?” Zī yuē: “Cōngmíng tèdá zhě bā-jiǔshí rén, rú chén zhī bǐ, chē zài dǒu liáng, bùkěshèngshù.”","english":"He [Cao Pi] further asked: \"How many ministers in [your country] Wu are like you?\" [Zhao] Zi replied: \"Men with exceptional intelligence number eighty to ninety. As for those like me—cartloads and bushels, innumerous beyond counting.\"","ref":"circa 280, Wei Zhao, Xue Ying, et al., The Book of Wu"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}