| 釋義 |
吃著碗里，瞧著鍋里chī zhe wǎn lǐ,qiáo zhē guō lǐkeep one eye on the bowl and the other on the pan[said of a greedy person]/那薛老大也是 ‘～’ 的，這一年來的時候，他為香菱兒不能到手，和姑媽打了多少饑荒。(《紅樓夢》178)Xue Pan is another of those greedy guts who keep ‘one eye on the bowl and the other on the pan’.Look how he plagued his mother for a whole year just to get hold of Xiangling. 吃著碗里，瞧著鍋里chī zhe wǎn lǐ,qiáo zhe ɡuō lǐ比喻人的貪欲無止境。while eating one dish, one keeps watching for the next; peep in my cabbage pot, stare in my cupboard |