汉英词典
MEANING OF 呼天抢地
呼天抢地
(呼天搶地)
lament to heaven and knock one's head on earth / cry bitterly and loudly in excessive grief / utter cries of anguish
抢地 Touch the ground / Shout to the sky and hit the ground with his head / Describe extreme sadness
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10月5日苹果联合创始人史蒂夫·乔布斯去世，引发中国万千苹果粉丝摧心剖肝、呼天抢地。 The Oct. 5 death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs elicited a rare outpouring of grief among Chinese fans. | ||
到了去年春年，40岁的杨都不敢出门了，日夜呆在他那昏暗的泥砖房里呼天抢地。 By last spring, Mr. Yang, 40, was afraid to leave his dim mud-clay house. "All he did was stay home and cry," Ms. | ||
我们过去一直很惊讶，在选举旋风当中，简化论者会把所有复杂和琐碎的问题都会呼天抢地地吵闹一番。 We are long past being surprised when complicated and nuanced problems are, amid an electoral whirlwind, turned into reductionist rallying cries. | ||
