包舉
Chinese edit
to cover; to wrap; to hold to cover; to wrap; to hold; to include; to take charge of; package; wrapper; container; bag; to hold or embrace; bundle; packet; to contract (to or for) |
to lift; to hold up; to cite to lift; to hold up; to cite; to enumerate; to act; to raise; to choose; to elect | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (包舉) | 包 | 舉 | |
| simp. (包举) | 包 | 举 | |
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
包舉
- (literary) to annex; to merge; to swallow up
- 有席卷天下，包舉宇內，囊括四海之意，并吞八荒之心。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: late 1st century BCE, Jia Yi (賈誼), On the Crimes of Qin (《過秦論》)
- Yǒu xíjuǎn tiānxià, bāojǔ yǔnèi, nángkuò sìhǎi zhī yì, bìngtūn bāhuāng zhī xīn. [Pinyin]
- In his mind was the ambition to swallow up the entire world. (Literally, "to roll up the world as if with a mat, to hold the world as if in a bag, to catch the world as if by a sack, and to swallow the world whole.")
有席卷天下，包举宇内，囊括四海之意，并吞八荒之心。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (literary) to summarize; to cover; to embrace
- 有些惡意的宣傳家……用以證明什麼革命都包舉在三民主義裡面了，共產主義就失了存在的理由。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1940, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《新民主主義論》 (On New Democracy), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Yǒuxiē èyì de xuānchuánjiā...... Yòngyǐ zhèngmíng shénme gémìng dōu bāojǔ zài sānmínzhǔyì lǐmiàn le, gòngchǎnzhǔyì jiù shī le cúnzài de lǐyóu. [Pinyin]
- Certain malicious propagandists […] in order to prove that all kinds of revolutions are covered in the Three People's Principles and that communism therefore loses its raison d'être.
有些恶意的宣传家……用以证明什么革命都包举在三民主义里面了，共产主义就失了存在的理由。 [MSC, simp.]
Synonyms edit
- (to annex):
- (to cover):