{"path":"/entry/2257","title":"不动声色 / 不動聲色 (bù dòng shēng sè) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"不动声色 / 不動聲色 (bù dòng shēng sè): not a word or movement (idiom) · remaining calm and collected · not batting an eyelid. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":2257,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["不动声色"],"TRADITIONAL":["不動聲色"]}},"phonetic":"bù dòng shēng sè","phoneticKey":"bu4 dong4 sheng1 se4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"not a word or movement ","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":"remaining calm and collected","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"not batting an eyelid","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADVERB","ADJECTIVE","VERB"],"frequency":30774,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":"bú dòng shēng sè"},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[{"label":null,"relations":[{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":2963,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["不露声色"],"TRADITIONAL":["不露聲色"]}},"phonetic":"bù lù shēng sè","gloss":{"simplified":"not show one's feeling or intentions","traditional":null}}],"primary":true}],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"First attested in 1065, in Ouyang Xiu's Account of the Zhoujin Hall in Xiangzhou Prefecture","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"至于临大事，决大议，垂绅正笏，不动声色，而措天下于泰山之安，可谓社稷之臣矣！","traditional":"至於臨大事，決大議，垂紳正笏，不動聲色，而措天下於泰山之安，可謂社稷之臣矣！"},"phonetic":"Zhìyú lín dàshì, jué dàyì, chuí shēn zhèng hù, bù dòng shēngsè, ér cuò tiānxià yú Tàishān zhī ān, kěwèi shèjì zhī chén yǐ!","english":"Whenever emergencies arose, or decisions of grave consequences were to be made, he would straighten up his collar and adjust his official badge, his countenance and voice never changing the least, and ensure that the country would be as secure as Mount Tai. He was indeed the minister on whom the whole country's security rested!","ref":"1065, 歐陽脩,《相州晝錦堂記》"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}