{"path":"/entry/47370","title":"掩耳盗铃 / 掩耳盜鈴 (yǎn ěr dào líng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"掩耳盗铃 / 掩耳盜鈴 (yǎn ěr dào líng): literally to cover one's ears whilst stealing a bell. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":47370,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["掩耳盗铃"],"TRADITIONAL":["掩耳盜鈴"]}},"phonetic":"yǎn ěr dào líng","phoneticKey":"yan3 er3 dao4 ling2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally to cover one's ears whilst stealing a bell","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to deceive oneself","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to bury one's head in the sand ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":38793,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":"yán ěr dào líng"},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[{"label":null,"relations":[{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":90245,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["自欺欺人"],"TRADITIONAL":["自欺欺人"]}},"phonetic":"zì qī qī rén","gloss":{"simplified":"to deceive others and to deceive oneself","traditional":null}}],"primary":true}],"origins":[{"literal":"to cover one’s ears while stealing a bell","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From a story in Lüshi Chunqiu","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"范氏之亡也，百姓有得钟者，欲负而走。则钟大不可负，以椎毁之，钟况然有音。恐人闻之而夺己也，遽揜其耳。","traditional":"范氏之亡也，百姓有得鐘者，欲負而走。則鐘大不可負，以椎毀之，鐘況然有音。恐人聞之而奪己也，遽揜其耳。"},"phonetic":"Fàn shì zhī wáng yě, bǎixìng yǒu dé zhōng zhě, yù fù ér zǒu. Zé zhōng dà bùkě fù, yǐ chúi huǐ zhī, zhōng huàngrán yǒu yīn. Kǒng rén wén zhī ér duó jǐ yě, jù yǎn qí ěr.","english":"When the Fan family was wiped out, there was a thief who wanted to carry their bell on his back and leave. Since the bell was too big for him to carry, he smashed it with a hammer, but the bell clanged loudly. For fear that people would hear it and take it from him, he quickly covered his ears.","ref":"Lü Buwei, Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals, 239 BCE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":7,"sourceName":"HSK 3.0","name":"Levels 7-9"},{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}