啼飢號寒
Chinese
mourn; to cry; hoof hungry number; call; name; roar; crycold; poor; to tremble trad. (啼飢號寒) 啼 飢 號 寒 simp. (啼饥号寒) 啼 饥 号 寒
Pronunciation
Idiom
啼飢號寒
- to cry out in hunger and cold; to be poverty-stricken
- 在物質上,掠奪普通人民的衣食,使廣大人民啼飢號寒;掠奪生產工具,使中國民族工業歸於毀滅和奴役化。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1938, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論持久戰》 (On Protracted War), 毛澤東選集 (1991). English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Zài wùzhì shàng, lüèduó pǔtōng rénmín de yīshí, shǐ guǎngdà rénmín tíjīháohán; lüèduó shēngchǎn gōngjù, shǐ Zhōngguó mínzú gōngyè guīyú huǐmiè hé núyìhuà. [Pinyin]
- Materially, [the enemy] is robbing the common people even of their food and clothing, making them cry out in hunger and cold; he is plundering the means of production, thus ruining and enslaving China's national industries.
在物质上,掠夺普通人民的衣食,使广大人民啼饥号寒;掠夺生产工具,使中国民族工业归于毁灭和奴役化。 [MSC, simp.]