row upon row of(lín cì zhì bǐ)

row upon row of

Row upon row, a Chinese idiom, pronounced L í NC ì zh ì B ǐ, means arranged in order like fish scales and comb teeth. It is often used to describe buildings or ships arranged in a very close and orderly manner. It comes from the book of songs, ode to Zhou and Liang Yuan.

Near antonym

The synonyms are dense and dense, and the antonyms are irregular and disordered

The origin of Idioms

In the book of songs · Zhou Song · Liang Yu: "the index obtained, the millet accumulated. It's revered like Yong, it's revered like Zhu. "

Idiom usage and examples

It is used in combination, as predicate and attributive, to describe many and concentrated buildings. Examples: 1. The poem of history chanting by Bao Zhao in the Southern Song Dynasty: "there are twelve QUS in the capital, and each scale flies." (2) in the Qing Dynasty, Wang Tao's "yingyu magazine" said: "around the Maomao village outside Dongguan, the vagrant people from Fujian and Guangdong gathered here, gambling houses, smoking houses, row after row. "3. Outside Dongguan, there are many vagrants from Fujian and Guangdong, such as gambling houses, smoking houses and so on. (Yingyi magazine by Wang Tao in Qing Dynasty). 4. Han River bridgehead by Xu Chi: "houses on both sides of the Strait are row upon row." 5. Xu Zhimo's pessimism: "at the top of the mountain, looking at the city, you can see the dark roofs, row upon row, the dust and smoke in the streets, and the living beings are crowded." (complete works of Xu Zhimo, Episode 1)

Chinese PinYin : lín cì zhì bǐ