| text | 犯上作乱 |
|---|---|
| header | 詞彙 |
| text-pinyin | 犯上作乱[fàn shàng zuò luàn] |
| englishtrans | To offend against one's superiors and make trouble; wanton rebellion. |
| notes | 成語[chéng yǔ] are employed frequently in everyday Modern Standard Mandarin, especially in educated speech. These fixed expressions add sophistication and rhetorical force, and are not dissimilar to Latin phrases as used in Western languages, but are much more frequent. Classical Chinese texts, likewise, are the source of an overwhelming number of 成語. |
| src | 成語 derived from Analects 1.2 |
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