{"path":"/entry/107242","title":"遗臭万年 / 遺臭萬年 (yí chòu wàn nián) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"遗臭万年 / 遺臭萬年 (yí chòu wàn nián): to have one's name go down in history as a byword for infamy (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":107242,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["遗臭万年"],"TRADITIONAL":["遺臭萬年"]}},"phonetic":"yí chòu wàn nián","phoneticKey":"yi2 chou4 wan4 nian2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to have one's name go down in history as a byword for infamy ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":32621,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[{"label":null,"relations":[{"kind":"ANTONYM","readingId":63967,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["流芳百世"],"TRADITIONAL":["流芳百世"]}},"phonetic":"liú fāng bǎi shì","gloss":{"simplified":"(of one's name, reputation and so on) to be immortalized (idiom)","traditional":null}}],"primary":true}],"origins":[{"literal":"to leave a stink for ten thousand years","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From A New Account of the Tales of the World:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"In Literary Chinese, 载 (zǎi) means the same here as 年 (nián).","traditional":"In Literary Chinese, 載 (zǎi) means the same here as 年 (nián)."}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"既而屈起坐曰：「既不能流芳后世，亦不足复遗臭万载邪？」","traditional":"既而屈起坐曰：「既不能流芳後世，亦不足復遺臭萬載邪？」"},"phonetic":"Jì'ér qūqǐ zuò yuē: “Jì bùnéng liúfāng hòushì, yì bùzú fù yí chòu wàn zǎi yé?”","english":"Then, after crouching and getting up from his seat, he (Huan Wen) continued, \"Even if I can't let my fragrance be wafted down to later generations, does that mean I'm incapable of leaving behind a stench for ten thousand years?\"","ref":"Liu Yiqing (editor), A New Account of the Tales of the World, 5ᵗʰ century CE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}