created sense approved 生吞活剥/生吞活剝 · shēngtūnhuóbō · to swallow alive — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
生吞活剥 / 生吞活剝
shēngtūnhuóbō
to swallow alive
To swallow a thing alive; to devour a living creature whole.
生 (literal) → 生 · shēng · raw 吞 (literal) → 吞 · tūn · to swallow 活 (literal) → 活 · huó · alive 剥 (literal) → 剥/剝 · bāo · to peel
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition
created sense approved 生吞活剥/生吞活剝 · shēngtūnhuóbō · to apply uncritically — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
生吞活剥 / 生吞活剝
shēngtūnhuóbō
to apply uncritically
To rigidly copy or uncritically accept others' ideas, methods, or writing without fully understanding or adapting them.
生 (literal) → 生 · shēng · stiffly 吞 (literal) → 吞 · tūn · to swallow 活 (literal) → 活 · huó · simply 剥 (literal) → 剥/剝 · bō · to strip
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition