饑饉薦臻
Chinese
famine to come one after another; to occur in succession trad. (饑饉薦臻/饑饉荐臻) 饑饉 薦臻/荐臻 simp. (饥馑荐臻) 饥馑 荐臻
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Idiom
饑饉薦臻
- (literary) famine occurring year after year
- 天降喪亂,饑饉薦臻。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Tiān jiàng sāngluàn, jījǐn jiànzhēn. [Pinyin]
- That Heaven [thus] sends down death and disorder?
Famine comes again and again.
天降丧乱,饥馑荐臻。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
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