{"path":"/entry/75125","title":"发号施令 / 發號施令 (fā hào shī lìng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"发号施令 / 發號施令 (fā hào shī lìng): to boss people around (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":75125,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["发号施令"],"TRADITIONAL":["發號施令"]}},"phonetic":"fā hào shī lìng","phoneticKey":"fa1 hao4 shi1 ling4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to boss people around ","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":10132,"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":"First attested in the 2nd century BCE in Huainanzi","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"乃发号施令曰：“其国之君，傲天悔鬼，决狱不辜，杀戮无罪，此天之所以诛也，民之所以仇也。兵之来也，以废不义而复有德也。”","traditional":"乃發號施令曰：“其國之君，傲天悔鬼，決獄不辜，殺戮無罪，此天之所以誅也，民之所以仇也。兵之來也，以廢不義而復有德也。”"},"phonetic":"Nǎi fāhàoshīlìng yuē: “Qí guó zhī jūn, ào tiān huǐ guǐ, jué yù bùgū, shālù wúzuì, cǐ tiān zhīsuǒyǐ zhū yě, mín zhīsuǒyǐ chóu yě. Bīng zhī lái yě, yǐ fèi bùyì ér fù yǒudé yě.”","english":"An edict is being issued, saying, “The sovereign of this state is arrogant before Heaven, humiliates ghosts and deities, misjudge lawsuits and execute innocent people. A person like this—a public enemy of the people, should be sentenced to death according to the will of Heaven. The victorious troops are here to exterminate the unrighteous and resume the power of the virtuous.”","ref":"Huainanzi, 2ⁿᵈ century BCE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}