{"path":"/entry/48632","title":"扑朔迷离 / 撲朔迷離 (pū shuò mí lí) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"扑朔迷离 / 撲朔迷離 (pū shuò mí lí): impossible to unravel. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":48632,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["扑朔迷离"],"TRADITIONAL":["撲朔迷離"]}},"phonetic":"pū shuò mí lí","phoneticKey":"pu1 shuo4 mi2 li2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"impossible to unravel","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"confusing","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADJECTIVE","VERB"],"frequency":31177,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From The Ballad of Mulan (《木蘭詩》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"雄兔脚扑朔，雌兔眼迷离。双兔傍地走，安能辨我是雄雌？","traditional":"雄兔腳撲朔，雌兔眼迷離。雙兔傍地走，安能辨我是雄雌？"},"phonetic":"Xióng tù jiǎo pūshuò, cí tù yǎn mílí. Shuāng tù bàng dì zǒu, ān néng biàn wǒ shì xióng cí?","english":"The buck bounds here and there,\nWhilst the doe has narrow eyes.\nBut when the two rabbits run side by side,\nHow can you tell the female from the male?","ref":"6th century, 《木蘭詩》 (The Ballad of Mulan)"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}