{"path":"/entry/119678","title":"高高在上 (gāo gāo zài shàng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"高高在上 (gāo gāo zài shàng): situated high · aloft · (figuratively) aloof and remote · situated above the masses and out of touch with reality. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":119678,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["高高在上"],"TRADITIONAL":["高高在上"]}},"phonetic":"gāo gāo zài shàng","phoneticKey":"gao1 gao1 zai4 shang4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"idiom","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"situated high","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"aloft","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(figuratively)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":" aloof and remote","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"situated above the masses and out of touch with reality","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADJECTIVE","ADVERB","VERB"],"frequency":12982,"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":"From the Classic of Poetry, poem 288 (《詩經·周頌·敬之》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"敬之敬之，天维显思，命不易哉。\n无曰高高在上，陟降厥士，日监在兹。","traditional":"敬之敬之，天維顯思，命不易哉。\n無曰高高在上，陟降厥士，日監在茲。"},"phonetic":"Jìng zhī jìng zhī, tiān wéi xiǎn sī, mìng bù yì zāi.\nWú yuē gāo gāo zài shàng, zhì jiàng jué shì, rì jiān zài zī.","english":"Let me be reverent, let me be reverent, [in attending to my duties];\n[The way of] Heaven is evident,\nAnd its appointment is not easily [preserved].\nLet me not say that It is high aloft above me.\nIt ascends and descends about our doings;\nIt daily inspects us wherever we are.","ref":"The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}