{"path":"/entry/42719","title":"应接不暇 / 應接不暇 (yìng jiē bù xiá) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"应接不暇 / 應接不暇 (yìng jiē bù xiá): more than one can attend to (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":42719,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["应接不暇"],"TRADITIONAL":["應接不暇"]}},"phonetic":"yìng jiē bù xiá","phoneticKey":"ying4 jie1 bu4 xia2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"more than one can attend to ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"deluged ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(with inquiries and so on)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"overwhelmed ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(by the beauty of the scenery)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":38660,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[{"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["应"],"TRADITIONAL":["應"]}},"phonetic":"yìng","primaryPhonetic":"yīng"}],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"First attested in c. 440, in A New Account of the Tales of the World","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"王子敬云：“从山阴道上行，山川自相映发，使人应接不暇。若秋冬之际，尤难为怀。”","traditional":"王子敬云：“從山陰道上行，山川自相映發，使人應接不暇。若秋冬之際，尤難爲懷。”"},"phonetic":"Wáng Zǐjìng yún: “Cóng Shānyīn dào shàng xíng, shānchuān zìxiāng yìngfā, shǐ rén yìngjiē bùxiá. Ruò qiū dōng zhījì, yóu nán wéi huái.”","english":"Wang Hsien-chih said, \"Whenever I travel by the Shan-yin road, the hills and streams naturally complement each other and the scenery is more than my eyes can take in; especially if it's at the turning point between autumn and winter, I find it all the harder to express what's in my heart.\"","ref":"Liu Yiqing (editor), A New Account of the Tales of the World, 5ᵗʰ century CE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}