一介書生
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Chinese[edit]
upright; “one” + classifier: a ... | scholar; intellectual; pedantic scholar | ||
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trad. (一介書生) | 一介 | 書生 | |
simp. (一介书生) | 一介 | 书生 |
Etymology[edit]
From Tengwang Ge Xu by 王勃 (Wang Bo):
- 勃,三尺微命,一介書生。無路請纓,等終軍之弱冠。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: 王勃 (Wang Bo), 《滕王閣序》
- Bó, sān chǐ wēi mìng, yījièshūshēng. Wúlù qǐngyīng, děng Zhōng Jūn zhī ruòguàn. [Pinyin]
- I, Wang Bo, am merely a scholar of low status. I have no way to serve the country like Zhong Jun did, despite being a young adult as he once was.
勃,三尺微命,一介书生。无路请缨,等终军之弱冠。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Pronunciation[edit]
Idiom[edit]
一介書生
- nothing but a scholar; a scholar; an intellectual
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