秉性難移本性難移bǐng xìng nán yía man’s nature is hard to change; what’s bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh; the leopard can never change his spots
? 張嘉慶他父親……說：“人的～，這孩子也不知道迷了哪一竅，一輩子也算完了?！?(梁斌《紅旗譜》206)“A man’s nature is hard to change”，he spluttered.“I don’t know what’s come over the boy. I’m through with him!” |