汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 剃头挑子一头热
lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom) / fig. one-sided enthusiasm / one party is interested, but the other, not so much / (Note: In former days, street barbers carried their equipment on a pole, with tools and a stool at one end and a brazier at the other.)
过去理发师的担子一头为板凳与工具箱,一头为火炉,因称"剃头挑子一头热"。用以比喻一厢情愿。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

我知道我是剃头挑子一头热,可你也太狠心了,你原来对我挺好的,可后来,你确实是在故意回避我。

I know I shaved head heat load, you are too cruel, you to my good, but later, you are really trying to evade me.

长期以来,科学同艺术之间的关系一直是剃头担子一头热:科学热恋着艺术,艺术却拒科学于千里之外。

The relationship between science and art has long been that of one-sided enthusiasm. That is, scientists love art while artists reject science.

旅馆中有美容院(剃头厅)吗?

Is tITe a beauty salon (barber shop) in the hotel?

要勤洗发、勤剃头,把头发梳理到位。

Shampoo to ground, ground hair, comb the hair in place.

剃头匠专为达官贵人修面,也认为房子非他莫属。

The barber shaved only distinguished people , and he too already looked upon the house as his own.

我可以命令剃头之人逮捕他对他进行审问。

I could command the Shavepate to arrest him and put him to the question.

无巧不成书,真是“刚挑剃头担,便遇疤痢汉”。

Not incidentally, is "just pick shaved Tam, we met Han scar dysentery. ""

也许你确实有些过人之处,但是太高估自己以及一头热的状况,只会让周遭的人感觉错愕与尴尬呢!

Perhaps your truly some fortes, but too overestimates itself as well as a hot condition, will only let the person all around feel that will be stunned awkwardly with!

当时外科医生的社会地位十分低下,因而很多手术都是那些几乎没有经过任何训练的剃头匠做的。

To be a surgeon wAS looked on AS so inferior that many operations were carried out by barbers, with hardly any training at all.

法老遂即差人去召约瑟,他们便急忙带他出监,他就剃头,刮脸,换衣裳,进到法老面前。

So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh.