500 Common Chinese Idioms: An annotated Frequency Dictionary by Liwei Jiao & Cornelius C. Kubler & Weiguo Zhang

Author:Liwei Jiao & Cornelius C. Kubler & Weiguo Zhang [Jiao, Liwei & Kubler, Cornelius C. & Zhang, Weiguo]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
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ISBN: 9781136882562
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2013-08-06T04:00:00+00:00

248. ()() jiē èr lián sān

A literal translation of this idiom is ‘join two link three’ (the numbers and here have no particular meaning). The meaning of the whole idiom is ‘one after another, repeatedly, in rapid succession.’

Example 1:, .

Lìng dàjiā kingbù de shì, zhè zhǒng shìqing jib’èr-liánsān de fashēng le.

‘What has horrified everyone is that this kind of thing has happened repeatedly in rapid succession.’

Example 2:, .

Tā de xifoshuō jib’èr-liánsān de chebfn, gěi Tā dàiláile jùdà de shēngyù hé shdurù.

‘His novels are published one after another, which has brought him an enormous reputation and income.’

Usage: Functions mainly as attributive.

Near Synonyms: [] (luò yì bù jué ) ‘continuous flow,’ [] (gé sān chà wj) ‘at intervals of three and differing by five – at short intervals, regularly’ (limited mostly to spoken Chinese).

Antonym: [] (xc xc luò luò ) ‘sparse, scattered.’

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