{"path":"/entry/27695","title":"大旱望云霓 / 大旱望雲霓 (dà hàn wàng yún ní) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"大旱望云霓 / 大旱望雲霓 (dà hàn wàng yún ní): looking for rain clouds in times of drought (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":27695,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["大旱望云霓"],"TRADITIONAL":["大旱望雲霓"]}},"phonetic":"dà hàn wàng yún ní","phoneticKey":"da4 han4 wang4 yun2 ni2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"looking for rain clouds in times of drought ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to yearn for relief from a desperate situation","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":"long for a rain cloud during a drought","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Mencius.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"臣闻七十里为政于天下者，汤是也。……民望之，若大旱之望云霓也。","traditional":"臣聞七十里為政於天下者，湯是也。……民望之，若大旱之望雲霓也。"},"phonetic":"Chén wén qīshí lǐ wéizhèng yú tiānxià zhě, Tāng shì yě....... Mín wàng zhī, ruò dàhàn zhī wàng yúnní yě.","english":"I have heard of one who with seventy li exercised all the functions of government throughout the kingdom. That was Tang. […] Thus, the people looked to him, as we look in a time of great drought to the clouds and rainbows.","ref":"Mencius, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}