Chinese Idioms of August 2015 (2015-08-07)
  Time:2015-8-7 14:49:56  Clrck:1136

(Pin yin)  hè lì jī qún

(Chinese)  鹤立鸡群

(Translation) Stand head and shoulders above others

Word by word English translation:

 Crane

 stand

 Chicken

 Group

Sample sentence:

tā fēi cháng de gāo zài wǒ men zhī zhōng jiǎn zhí jiù shì hè lì jī qún

他非常的高,在我们之中简直就是鹤立鸡群。

He is very high, just stand head and shoulders among us.

(Pin yin)  qián lǘ jì qióng

(Chinese)  黔驴技穷

(Translation)  Be at one's wit's end

Word by word English translation:

 Guizhou

 The donkey

 skill

 end

Sample sentence:

rú guǒ zhè xiē bàn fǎ dōu wú fǎ jiě jué wèn tínà wǒ kě jiù qián lǘ jì qióng le

如果这些办法都无法解决问题,那我可就黔驴技穷了。

If these methods do not solve the problem, I will be at one's wit's end.

 

 


 


 

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