汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 咸与维新
咸与维新 (咸與維新)
everyone participates in reforms (idiom) / to replace the old with new / to reform and start afresh
Refers to the removal of old updates
《书.胤征》"天吏逸德,烈于猛火,歼厥渠魁,胁从罔治。旧染污俗,咸与惟新。"孔传"言其余人,久染污俗,本无恶心,皆与更新。"后因以"咸与维新"谓对一切受恶习影响或犯罪的人都准予改过自新或革故图新。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

他对中国传统文化的谙熟、迷恋,使这部诞生于一个“咸与维新”时代的书,字里行间弥漫着一种不合时宜的怀旧气息。

He was familiar with traditional Chinese culture, obsession, so this was born in a "salt and reform" era, the book, between the lines filled with a nostalgic atmosphere anachronistic.