火焰山 (huǒ yàn shān) — (place name) Mountain of Flames (a red-hot mountain range in Turpan, Xinjiang); (literary) the fiery mountain in Journey to the West that the pilgrims could not cross; (figurative) an insurmountable obstacle or extremely difficult situation
Definition
Proper name for the real 'Mountain of Flames' near Turpan, Xinjiang; in literature (Journey to the West) it also names the fiery obstacle Sun Wukong had to cross, and is used figuratively for an impassable barrier.
noun
(place name) Mountain of Flames (a red-hot mountain range in Turpan, Xinjiang)(literary) the fiery mountain in Journey to the West that the pilgrims could not cross(figurative) an insurmountable obstacle or extremely difficult situation
Examples
- 《》，火焰山。《Xī yóu jì》 lǐ, sūn wù kōng jiè le bā jiāo shàn cái guò le huǒ yàn shān.In Journey to the West, Sun Wukong only got past the Mountain of Flames after borrowing the palm-leaf fan.
- ，火焰山。Duì tā lái shuō, zhè cì kǎo shì jiù xiàng huǒ yàn shān yí yàng nán guò.For him, this exam is as hard to pass as the Mountain of Flames.
- 火焰山。Tǔ lǔ fān de huǒ yàn shān xià tiān wēn dù gāo dá qī shí dù.The temperature at Turpan's Mountain of Flames can reach seventy degrees Celsius in summer.
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