懸心吊膽
Chinese
| hang; suspend | heart; mind | to hang; to suspend | the gall; the nerve; courage the gall; the nerve; courage; guts; gall bladder | ||
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| trad. (懸心吊膽) | 懸 | 心 | 吊 | 膽 | |
| simp. (悬心吊胆) | 悬 | 心 | 吊 | 胆 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: xuánxīndiàodǎn
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄉㄧㄠˋ ㄉㄢˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: syuánsindiàodǎn
- Wade–Giles: hsüan2-hsin1-tiao4-tan3
- Yale: sywán-syīn-dyàu-dǎn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyuanshindiawdaan
- Palladius: сюаньсиньдяодань (sjuanʹsinʹdjaodanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕy̯ɛn³⁵ ɕin⁵⁵ ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ tän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Idiom
懸心吊膽
- synonym of 提心吊膽 / 提心吊胆 (tíxīndiàodǎn, “to be on tenterhooks”)
- 但他們往往遭農會嚴厲拒絕，所以他們總是懸心吊膽地過日子 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Dàn tāmen wǎngwǎng zāo nónghuì yánlì jùjué, suǒyǐ tāmen zǒngshì xuánxīndiàodǎn de guò rìzi [Pinyin]
- But more often than not they are turned down flat by the peasant associations, and so they are always on tenterhooks
但他们往往遭农会严厉拒绝，所以他们总是悬心吊胆地过日子 [MSC, simp.]