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Trad. 鑑
- bronze mirror (used in ancient times)
- to reflect
- to mirror
- sth that serves as a warning or a lesson
- to examine
- to scrutinize
Trad. 借鑒
- to draw on (others' experience)
- to learn from (how others do things)
- lesson to be learned (by observing others)
Trad. 賜鑒
- (formal) (used in a submitted document) please review; for your kind consideration
Trad. 鑑定
- to examine sth to determine its authenticity, quality, value etc; to appraise; to evaluate; to authenticate
Trad. 鑒真
- Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang dynastic Buddhist monk, who crossed to Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism
Trad. 鑑黃師
- content moderator specializing in pornographic material (both online and offline)
Trad. 油光可鑒
- lit. oily and shiny to the point of reflecting (idiom)
- lustrous
Trad. 龍龕手鑑
- Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical
Trad. 引以為鑑
- to take a lesson from (an adverse experience)
Trad. 後車之鑒
- lit. warning to the following cart (idiom); don't follow the track of an overturned cart
- fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor
- learn from past mistake
- once bitten twice shy
Trad. 前車之鑑
- lit. a warning taken from the overturned cart ahead (idiom)
- fig. lesson learned by observing others' failures
Trad. 前車之鑒
- variant of 前車之鑑|前车之鉴[qian2 che1 zhi1 jian4]
Trad. 德法年鑒
- Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (published once in 1844 by Karl Marx and bourgeois radical Arnold Ruge)
Trad. 鑒往知來
- to observe the past to foresee the future (idiom, taken loosely from Book of Songs); studying ancient wisdom gives insight into what is to come
Trad. 鑒真和尚
- Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang Buddhist monk, who crossed to Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism
Trad. 資治通鑒
- A Mirror for the Wise Ruler (or Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government), a vast chronological general history, written by 司馬光|司马光[Si1 ma3 Guang1] Sima Guang (1019-1089) and collaborators during the Northern Song in 1084, covering the period 403 BC-959 AD, 294 scrolls
Trad. 國家文物鑒定委員會
- National Commission for the Identification of Cultural Heritage
Trad. 前車之覆，後車之鑒
- lit. the cart in front overturns, a warning to the following cart (idiom); fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor
- learn from past mistake
- once bitten twice shy