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- Amédée Courbet (1826-1885), a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War
Trad. 孤沙錐
- (bird species of China) solitary snipe (Gallinago solitaria)
Trad. 獨孤求敗
- Dugu Qiubai, a fictional character appearing in 金庸[Jin1 Yong1] novels
- one who is cut off from others (idiom)
- one who has chosen to follow a solitary path
- (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
- obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
- willful
- one's own way
- dogmatic
Trad. 孤掌難鳴
- It's hard to clap with only one hand.
- It takes two to tango
- It's difficult to achieve anything without support.
- a single man and a single woman
- bachelors
- a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)
Trad. 孤芳自賞
- lone flower admiring itself (idiom); narcissism
- self-love
Trad. 孤證不立
- unacceptable as uncorroborated evidence (in law or in textual criticism)
Trad. 孤身隻影
- lit. a lonely body with only a shadow for company
- to be all alone (idiom)
Trad. 孤軍奮戰
- lit. lone army putting up a brave fight (idiom)
- fig. (of a person or group of people) struggling hard without support
Trad. 孤陋寡聞
- ignorant and inexperienced
- ill-informed and narrow-minded
- parthenogenesis (biol. a female reproducing without fertilization)
- wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom)
- person who has no family or friends to rely on
Trad. 生態孤島
- insularization (as a threat to biodiversity)
Trad. 鰥寡孤獨
- lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless (idiom)
- fig. people with no one left to rely on
Trad. 苦心孤詣
- to make painstaking efforts (idiom); after much trouble
- to work hard at sth