无颜见江东父老

wú yán jiàn jiāng dōng fù lǎo

定義

1. (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[xiàng yǔ], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)

无颜见江东父老 の構成語

• 东 dōng: east
• 江 jiāng: river
• 无 wú: not to have
• 见 jiàn: to see
• 见 xiàn: to appear
• 江东 jiāng dōng: Jiangdong district of Ningbo city 寧波市|宁波市[níng bō shì], Zhejiang
• 父 fù: father
• 父老 fù lǎo: elders
• 颜 yán: color
• 老 lǎo: prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity