汪洋大海 (wāng yáng dà) — (literal) vast and boundless ocean; (figurative) enormous scale or immense magnitude
Definition
Idiom meaning a vast, boundless ocean, used figuratively for something immensely large in scale. Often paired with 像…一般 or 在…中/般的 constructions to express being lost in or dwarfed by a huge quantity.
idiom
(literal) vast and boundless ocean(figurative) enormous scale or immense magnitude
Examples
- ，汪洋大海。Yì zǒu jìn guǎng chǎng, tā jiù xiàng yì dī shuǐ róng rù le wāng yáng dà.As soon as he entered the square, he blended in like a drop of water merging into the boundless ocean.
- 汪洋大海，。Zài wāng yáng dà bān de zī liào zhōng, zhǎo dào zhè fèn wén jiàn shí shǔ bú yì.Finding this document among the ocean of materials was truly no easy task.
- 汪洋大海，。Tā wàng zhe yuǎn chù de wāng yáng dà, gǎn dào zì jǐ duō me miǎo xiǎo.He gazed at the endless ocean in the distance and felt how small he was.
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