{"path":"/entry/12412","title":"冥顽不灵 / 冥頑不靈 (míng wán bù líng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"冥顽不灵 / 冥頑不靈 (míng wán bù líng): pigheaded. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":12412,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["冥顽不灵"],"TRADITIONAL":["冥頑不靈"]}},"phonetic":"míng wán bù líng","phoneticKey":"ming2 wan2 bu4 ling2","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":"pigheaded","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADJECTIVE","VERB"],"frequency":52791,"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":"First attested in 819 CE. Coined by Han Yu","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"不然，则是鳄鱼冥顽不灵，刺史虽有言，不闻不知也。夫傲天子之命吏，不听其言，不徙以避之，与冥顽不灵而为民物害者，皆可杀。","traditional":"不然，則是鱷魚冥頑不靈，刺史雖有言，不聞不知也。夫傲天子之命吏，不聽其言，不徙以避之，與冥頑不靈而爲民物害者，皆可殺。"},"phonetic":"Bùrán, zéshì èyú míngwánbùlíng, cìshǐ suī yǒu yán, bù wén bù zhī yě. Fū ào tiānzǐ zhī mìnglì, bù tīng qí yán, bù xǐ yǐ bì zhī, yǔ míngwánbùlíng ér wéi mínwù hài zhě, jiē kě shā.","english":"Or, may be, that thou hast not wit to seize the purport of my words; though whether it be wilful disobedience or stupid misapprehension, the punishment in each case is death.","ref":"819 May 21, Han Yu (韓愈),《鱷魚文》, translated into English as Crocodile of Ch‘ao-chou by Herbert Allen Giles, 1922."}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}