{"path":"/entry/14921","title":"力挽狂澜 / 力挽狂瀾 (lì wǎn kuáng lán) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"力挽狂澜 / 力挽狂瀾 (lì wǎn kuáng lán): to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom) · figuratively to try hard to save a desperate crisis. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":14921,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["力挽狂澜"],"TRADITIONAL":["力挽狂瀾"]}},"phonetic":"lì wǎn kuáng lán","phoneticKey":"li4 wan3 kuang2 lan2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to pull strongly against a crazy tide ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively to try hard to save a desperate crisis","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB","NOUN"],"frequency":25988,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"to pull strongly against a roaring tide","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From a famous verse by Han Yu (768～824)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"障百川而东之，回狂澜于既倒。先生之于儒，可谓有劳矣。","traditional":"障百川而東之，回狂瀾於既倒。先生之於儒，可謂有勞矣。"},"phonetic":"Zhàng bǎichuān ér dōng zhī, huí kuánglán yú jìdào. Xiānshēng zhī yú rú, kěwèi yǒuláo yǐ.","english":"You have channeled and brought home the hundred streams\nhave turned back a raging wave, already crested.\nTruly, Sir, it must be said:\nyour labors for Confucian teaching are uncontested.","ref":"c. 812, 韓愈 (Han Yu), 《進學解》, translated by Charles Hartman"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}