{"path":"/entry/2894","title":"不赞一词 / 不贊一詞 (bù zàn yī cí) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"不赞一词 / 不贊一詞 (bù zàn yī cí): to keep silent. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":2894,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["不赞一词"],"TRADITIONAL":["不贊一詞"]}},"phonetic":"bù zàn yī cí","phoneticKey":"bu4 zan4 yi1 ci2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to keep silent","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to make no comment","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":"bú zàn yì cí"},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From Shiji, Vol. XL (《史記·孔子世家》):","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Later on its meaning had gradually changed to the modern sense, no comment.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"至于为《春秋》，笔则笔，削则削，子夏之徒不能赞一辞。","traditional":"至於為《春秋》，筆則筆，削則削，子夏之徒不能贊一辭。"},"phonetic":"Zhìyú wéi “Chūnqiū”, bǐ zé bǐ, xuē zé xuē, Zǐxià zhī tú bù néng zàn yī cí.","english":"In editing the Spring and Autumn Annals Confucius recorded certain events and omitted others, [the result being so perfect] that not even men like Zixia [who excelled in literature] could make any revision.","ref":"The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}