{"path":"/entry/93371","title":"叶公好龙 / 葉公好龍 (yè gōng hào lóng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"叶公好龙 / 葉公好龍 (yè gōng hào lóng): literally Lord Ye's passion for dragons (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":93371,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["叶公好龙"],"TRADITIONAL":["葉公好龍"]}},"phonetic":"yè gōng hào lóng","phoneticKey":"ye4 gong1 hao4 long2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally Lord Ye's passion for dragons ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively to pretend to be fond of something while actually fearing it","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"ostensible fondness of something one really fears","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN","ADJECTIVE"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[{"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["好"],"TRADITIONAL":["好"]}},"phonetic":"hào","primaryPhonetic":"hǎo"}],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"Duke of Ye/She liking dragons","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From a parable in 《新序》 (New Prefaces), describing Duke of Ye/She, who was obsessed with drawings of dragons, but fled in terror when he saw a real dragon.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"叶公子高好龙，钩以写龙，凿以写龙，屋室雕文以写龙。于是天龙闻而下之，窥头于牖，施尾于堂。叶公见之，弃而还走，失其魂魄，五色无主。是叶公非好龙也，好夫似龙而非龙者也。","traditional":"葉公子高好龍，鉤以寫龍，鑿以寫龍，屋室雕文以寫龍。於是天龍聞而下之，窺頭於牖，施尾於堂。葉公見之，棄而還走，失其魂魄，五色無主。是葉公非好龍也，好夫似龍而非龍者也。"},"phonetic":"Shègōng Zǐgāo hào lóng, gōu yǐ xiě lóng, záo yǐ xiě lóng, wū shì diāo wén yǐ xiě lóng. Yúshì tiānlóng wén ér xià zhī, kuī tóu yú yǒu, yì wěi yú táng. Shègōng jiàn zhī, qì ér xúanzǒu, shī qí húnpò, wǔsèwúzhǔ. Shì Shègōng fēi hào lóng yě, hào fū sì lóng ér fēi lóng zhě yě.","english":"Duke of Ye/She Zigao liked dragons, dragons drawn on hooks, dragons drawn on wine vessels, dragons drawn at house carvings. So, the dragon in the sky listened then went down, head peeking through the windowsill, tail extended into the hall. Duke of Ye/She saw it, gave up then turned around and ran, losing his soul, extremely terrified. This is Duke of Ye/She not liking dragons, he liked those resembling dragons but are not dragons.","ref":"Han Dynasty, New Prefaces (新序), Liu Xiang (劉向)"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}