{"path":"/entry/64134","title":"浮想联翩 / 浮想聯翩 (fú xiǎng lián piān) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"浮想联翩 / 浮想聯翩 (fú xiǎng lián piān): to let one's imagination roam. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":64134,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["浮想联翩"],"TRADITIONAL":["浮想聯翩"]}},"phonetic":"fú xiǎng lián piān","phoneticKey":"fu2 xiang3 lian2 pian1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to let one's imagination roam","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":46486,"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":"Coined by Mao Zedong in 1958, in the preface to a couple of qilü poems titled Farewell To the God of Plague:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Which is in turn one character modified from Lu Ji's On Literature","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"浮想联翩，夜不能寐。微风拂煦，旭日临窗，遥望南天，欣然命笔。","traditional":"浮想聯翩，夜不能寐。微風拂煦，旭日臨窗，遙望南天，欣然命筆。"},"phonetic":"Fúxiǎngliánpiān, yèbùnéngmèi. Wēifēng fúxù, xùrì lín chuāng, yáowàng nántiān, xīnrán mìngbǐ.","english":"I could not sleep well at night with thoughts thronging my mind. Now in the morning as sunlight penetrates into my window, amid the warm breeze, I, looking into the distant sky, pen the following lines with immense pleasure.","ref":"1958 July 1, 毛澤東,《七律·送瘟神》序, translation based on Gu Zhengkun's version"},{"text":{"simplified":"浮藻联翩，若翰鸟缨缴，而坠曾云之峻。","traditional":"浮藻聯翩，若翰鳥纓繳，而墜曾雲之峻。"},"phonetic":"Fúzǎo liánpiān, ruò hàn niǎo yīng zhuó, ér zhuì céngyún zhī jùn.","english":"Fluttering phrases fleet as feathered flocks, suddenly pierced by arrows of thought, plunge through layered mists of creation.","ref":"circa 300, 陸機, 《文賦》"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}