Pinyin Dictionary results for "bai ye"

拜谒
to pay a formal visit; to call to pay respects; to pay homage (at a monument, mausoleum etc)
白夜
white night
百叶
tripe (stomach lining of cattle etc used as food)
百叶窗
shutter; blind
百叶箱
Stevenson screen (white box with ventilated sides, housing meteorological instruments); thermometer screen; instrument shelter
百页窗
variant of 百葉窗|百叶窗[bai3 ye4 chuang1]
成也萧何,败也萧何
lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Han2 Xin4] being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军[da4 jiang1 jun1]; fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor
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