单词 | year of the tiger |
释义 | > as lemmasyear of the tiger (also dragon, pig, etc.) c. With of. In Chinese and East Asian astrology: any of the twelve years of the zodiac cycle (see zodiac n. Additions) represented by one of twelve animals, as year of the tiger (also dragon, pig, etc.). Also with preceding modifying noun, as dragon year, horse year, etc. Frequently with capital initials. ΚΠ 1693 A. Pitfield tr. S. de La Loubère New Hist. Relation Kingdom Siam II. 169 The Twelve Names of the Year are: Pii ma mia, the Year of the Little Mare... Pii Vok, the Year of the Ape. Pii Rakaa, the Year of the Crow [etc.]. 1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. IV. iii. iii. 388 Historians do not mention..the month in which Jenghîz Khân left Mogulistân in the year of the Hare. 1793 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. III. 90 The year 1774 was the Horse-year of the Japanese, and 1776 their Ape-year. 1837 T. De Quincey Revolt of Tartars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 96/2 The year of the tiger was now within one little month of its commencement. 1891 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. Apr. 207 The cyclic characters according to which they [sc. Tibetans] reckon years are the mouse year, the ox year, the hare year, etc. 1913 Young People Oct. 20/2 A Chinaman will sometimes even yet tell he was born in the dragon year or in the dog year. 1946 Times 21 Oct. 5/4 This year is the Year of the Dog, next year will be the Year of the Pig. 2011 New Yorker 31 Jan. 70/3 According to the Chinese zodiac she was born in the Year of the Tiger. < as lemmas |
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