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截断巫山云雨

截斷巫山雲雨
jiéduànWūshānyúnyǔ
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 to cut off the clouds and rain of Mount Wu
  2. 2 to block the Wu Gorge clouds (hold back the Yangtze floods)
  3. 3 Mao Zedong's line imagining the Three Gorges Dam

Examples

更立西江石壁，截断巫山云雨，高峡出平湖。
Gèng lì Xījiāng shíbì, jiéduàn Wūshān yúnyǔ, gāoxiá chū pínghú.
Let's raise a stone wall across the western river, cut off the Wu Gorge clouds, and make a calm lake emerge from the deep gorge.
三峡大坝真的截断巫山云雨了。
Sānxiá Dàbà zhēn de jiéduàn Wūshān yúnyǔ le.
The Three Gorges Dam really did 'cut off the clouds and rain of Mount Wu.'

Stroke Order

截 jié
断 duàn
巫 wū
山 shān
云 yún
雨 yǔ