毒焰

Chinese

		poison; narcotics	flame
trad. (毒焰/毒燄)		毒	焰/燄
simp. (毒焰)		毒	焰

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dúyàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˊ ㄧㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dúyàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˊ ㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dúyàn
    • Wade–Giles: tu²-yen⁴
    • Yale: dú-yàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dwuyann
    • Palladius: дуянь (dujanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu³⁵ jɛn⁵¹/

Noun

毒焰

1. (literally) burning flame
2. (figuratively) evil force

   • 然而我們是在革命戰爭中，革命戰爭是一種抗毒素，它不但將排除敵人的毒焰，也將清洗自己的污濁。 [MSC, trad.]
     然而我们是在革命战争中，革命战争是一种抗毒素，它不但将排除敌人的毒焰，也将清洗自己的污浊。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1938, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論持久戰》 (On Protracted War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Rán'ér wǒmen shì zài gémìng zhànzhēng zhōng, gémìng zhànzhēng shì yī zhǒng kàngdúsù, tā bùdàn jiāng páichú dírén de dúyàn, yě jiāng qīngxǐ zìjǐ de wūzhuó. [Pinyin]

     But we are in the midst of a revolutionary war, and revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.