汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 汗牛充栋
汗牛充栋 (汗牛充棟)
lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
栋 Dongyu, room / When the book is transported, the cattle sweats, and it can be piled up to the roof when storing / Cultivated books
栋栋宇,屋子。书运输时牛累得出汗,存放时可堆至屋顶。形容藏书非常多。
hàn niú chōng () dòng
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

期间人们对经济危机的研究成果汗牛充栋,其中欧文。

During the period, an immense number of books had been published on economic crisis, the greatest contributions being made by Irving Fisher and Keynes.

科沃德创作的戏剧、台词与音乐汗牛充栋

Coward turned out plays, lyrics and music in volume.

永生卧室,十余米,内藏桌一、凳一、床一及汗牛充栋之书堆积。

Eternal life bedrooms, more than ten meters, containing a desk, a stool, bed and voluminous book a heap.

有关魏玛的文献汗牛充栋,但我们依然可以编一册权威易懂的单行本,汇集所有的线索。

The literature on Weimar is immense, but we could well do with a single, authoritative, jargon-free volume that pulls all the strands together.

关于抽象绘画与无调性音乐之关系的文献汗牛充栋,康、勋二人之书信往来也能在互联网上找到。

An enormous literature exists on the relationship between abstract painting and atonal music, and the extensive Kandinsky-Schoenberg correspondence can be found on the Internet.

在这里,梅赛德斯、卡迪拉克和丰田的代理经销店沿路到处都是。这个城市夜间人行道上停泊着汗牛充栋的汽车,街道上尾气呛人,这都在证明着个人财富的充盈。

Mercedes Cadillac and Toyota dealerships line the roads — attesting to the personal wealth that has left the city's nighttime sidewalks chockablock with parked cars and its streets choking with smog.