閉目塞聽
Chinese
to close; stop up; shut to close; stop up; shut; obstruct |
eye; item; section eye; item; section; list; catalogue; table of contents; (taxonomy) order; goal; name; title |
to stuff; to stop up; to squeeze in to stuff; to stop up; to squeeze in; strategic pass; piston; unenlightened; Serb (abbrev.); Serbian |
let; allow; listen let; allow; listen; hear; obey | ||
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trad. (閉目塞聽) | 閉 | 目 | 塞 | 聽 | |
simp. (闭目塞听) | 闭 | 目 | 塞 | 听 | |
Literally: “to shut one's eyes and stop one's ears”. |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄇㄨˋ ㄙㄜˋ ㄊㄧㄥ
- Tongyong Pinyin: bìmùsèting
- Wade–Giles: pi4-mu4-sê4-tʻing1
- Yale: bì-mù-sè-tīng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihmuhsehting
- Palladius: бимусэтин (bimusɛtin)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ mu⁵¹⁻⁵³ sɤ⁵¹ tʰiŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: bai3 muk6 sak1 ting1
- Yale: bai muhk sāk tīng
- Cantonese Pinyin: bai3 muk9 sak7 ting1
- Guangdong Romanization: bei3 mug6 seg1 ting1
- Sinological IPA (key): /pɐi̯³³ mʊk̚² sɐk̚⁵ tʰɪŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Idiom
(deprecated template usage) 閉目塞聽
- to be out of touch with reality
- 一個閉目塞聽、同客觀外界根本絕緣的人,是無所謂認識的。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1937, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《實踐論》 (On Practice), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Yī gè bìmùsètīng, tóng kèguān wàijiè gēnběn juéyuán de rén, shì wúsuǒwèi rènshi de. [Pinyin]
- For a person who shuts their eyes, stops their ears and totally cuts themselves off from the objective world there can be no such thing as knowledge.
一个闭目塞听、同客观外界根本绝缘的人,是无所谓认识的。 [MSC, simp.]
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