{"path":"/entry/73090","title":"生吞活剥 / 生吞活剝 (shēng tūn huó bō) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"生吞活剥 / 生吞活剝 (shēng tūn huó bō): to swallow whole (idiom) · figuratively to apply uncritically. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":73090,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["生吞活剥"],"TRADITIONAL":["生吞活剝"]}},"phonetic":"shēng tūn huó bō","phoneticKey":"sheng1 tun1 huo2 bo1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to swallow whole ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively to apply uncritically","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB","NOUN"],"frequency":20523,"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 《大唐新語》, edited by Liu Su in the early 9th century.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"有枣强尉张怀庆，好偷名士文章…人谓之谚曰：「活剥王昌龄，生吞郭正一。」","traditional":"有棗強尉張懷慶，好偷名士文章…人謂之諺曰：「活剝王昌齡，生吞郭正一。」"},"phonetic":"Yǒu Zǎoqiáng wèi Zhāng Huáiqìng, hào tōu míngshì wénzhāng... Rén wèi zhī yàn yuē: “Huó bō Wáng Chānglíng, shēng tūn Guō Zhèngyī.”","english":"There was an officer by the name Zhang Huaiqing in Zaoqiang, who was prone to plagiarizing famous authors... Referring to him, an idiom says \"to flay Wang Changling alive and swallow Guo Zhengyi raw.\"","ref":"a. 820, Liu Su (劉肅), 《大唐新語》"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}