{"path":"/entry/41018","title":"怨天尤人 (yuàn tiān yóu rén) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"怨天尤人 (yuàn tiān yóu rén): to blame the gods and accuse others. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":41018,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["怨天尤人"],"TRADITIONAL":["怨天尤人"]}},"phonetic":"yuàn tiān yóu rén","phoneticKey":"yuan4 tian1 you2 ren2","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 blame the gods and accuse others","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":28004,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"to blame the gods and accuse others","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Analects, Book 14 (《論語·憲問》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"子曰：「不怨天，不尤人，下学而上达，知我者，其天乎！」","traditional":"子曰：「不怨天，不尤人，下學而上達，知我者，其天乎！」"},"phonetic":"Zǐyuē: “Bù yuàn tiān, bù yóu rén, xià xué ér shàng dá, zhī wǒ zhě, qí tiān hū!”","english":"The Master replied, \"I do not murmur against Heaven. I do not grumble against men. My studies lie low, and my penetration rises high. But there is Heaven - that knows me!\"","ref":"The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}