銜（銜）;[Ⅰ啣]xiánⅠ ? ? （用嘴含） hold in the mouth: ～ 著煙斗 have a pipe between one's teeth; 燕子 ～ 泥筑窠。 Swallows carry bits of earth in their bills to build nests.
? （存在心里） harbour; bear: ～ 恨 harbour resentment; bear a grudge Ⅱ ? （級別） rank; title: 大使 ～ 常駐代表 permanent representative with the rank of ambassador; 公使 ～ 參贊 counsellor with rank of minister
◆銜悲茹恨 harbour sorrow and resentment; 銜草營巢 gather grasses for a nest; 銜恨 harbour resentment; bear a grudge; 銜華佩實 bear both flowers and fruits — a good essay which has solid substance and beautiful sentences; blossom and bear fruit; 銜環(huán)相[以]報 be like the wounded bird, who was saved by a kind preserver, returned with the precious reward of jade in his beak; carry a bracelet in the beak as recompense — repay with gratitude; express gratitude to one's benefactor; will repay with gratitude; 銜接 link up; join; connect; 銜枚疾走 (army) hastening with mouth gags (in night attacks); 銜石填海 carry stones in the beak to fill up the sea — cast water into the Thames; labour in vain; 銜鐵 {電} armature; anchor; armature iron; reed; keeper; 銜尾相隨 walk in Indian file; follow one after another; proceed like a school of fishes one after another; walk one after the other; 銜冤 nurse [harbour] a bitter sense of wrong [injustice]; have a simmering sense of injustice; 銜冤而死 die with one's name uncleared; die with a simmering sense of injustice; with a bitter sense of wrong and die 銜rank;title
官～ official rank/學～ academic title/公使～參贊minister-counsellor/大使～常駐副代表deputy permanent representative with the rank of ambassador (or with ambassadorial rank); ambassador,deputy permanent representative/參贊～處長 division chief with the rank of counsellor;counsellor,division chief/一秘～翻譯 1st secretary interpreter; interpreter with the rank of 1st secretary |