汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 泥菩薩
泥菩薩 (泥菩萨)
clay Bodhisattva
泥塑的神像。多用来比喻虚弱不中用的人。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

否则也只是个过江的泥菩萨,还保不住自己吧!

Otherwise, we'll be like a clay Bodhisattva, who cannot even save himself as he crosses the river.

如此这般暗地里的讨价还价才得以使这个计划泥菩萨过海,代价是舍弃部分削减成本的最佳方案。

Backstage bargains like these kept the plan afloat, but at the price of extinguishing some of the best ideas for reducing costs.

但是这里也有个奇怪的现象,许多寺庙庙毁僧却在、普渡众生……殊不知,老天爷也不敢动泥菩萨半根毫毛啊!

But here also there is a strange phenomenon, and many Buddhist temples are in the temple destroyed, salvation... does not know that God does not dared to touch the root hairs half clay Buddha ah!