{"path":"/entry/15849","title":"包藏祸心 / 包藏禍心 (bāo cáng huò xīn) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"包藏祸心 / 包藏禍心 (bāo cáng huò xīn): to harbor evil intentions · to conceal malice. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":15849,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["包藏祸心"],"TRADITIONAL":["包藏禍心"]}},"phonetic":"bāo cáng huò xīn","phoneticKey":"bao1 cang2 huo4 xin1","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":"to harbor evil intentions","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to conceal malice","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":null,"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":"《左傳·昭公元年》","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"小国无罪，恃实其罪。将恃大国之安靖己，而无乃包藏祸心以图之。","traditional":"小國無罪，恃實其罪。將恃大國之安靖己，而無乃包藏禍心以圖之。"},"phonetic":"Xiǎoguó wúzuì, shì shí qí zuì. Jiāng shì dàguó zhī ānjìng jǐ, ér wúnǎi bāocánghuòxīn yǐ tú zhī.","english":"Our small country has not done wrong; the only real fault of ours, if any, is that we have had no choice but to rely on others. If only our trust on your mighty country were enough to keep ourselves at peace! But are you not, with concealed malice, conspiring to take us over?","ref":"Commentary of Zuo, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}