包醫百病

Chinese

		to cover; to wrap; to hold to cover; to wrap; to hold; to include; to take charge of; package; wrapper; container; bag; to hold or embrace; bundle; packet; to contract (to or for)	medical; medicine; doctor medical; medicine; doctor; to cure; to treat	all kinds of diseases and ailments; every illness
trad. (包醫百病)		包	醫	百病
simp. (包医百病)		包	医	百病

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bāoyībǎibìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄠ ㄧ ㄅㄞˇ ㄅㄧㄥˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bāoyībǎibìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄠ ㄧ ㄅㄞˇ ㄅㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: baoyibǎibìng
    • Wade–Giles: pao¹-i¹-pai³-ping⁴
    • Yale: bāu-yī-bǎi-bìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bauibaebinq
    • Palladius: баоибайбин (baoibajbin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯⁵⁵ i⁵⁵ paɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ piŋ⁵¹/

Idiom

包醫百病

1. Synonym of 包治百病 (bāozhìbǎibìng, “guaranteed to cure all illnesses; cure-all”)

   • 直到現在，還有不少的人，把馬克思列寧主義書本上的某些個別字句看作現成的靈丹聖藥，似乎只要得了它，就可以不費氣力地包醫百病。 [MSC, trad.]
     直到现在，还有不少的人，把马克思列宁主义书本上的某些个别字句看作现成的灵丹圣药，似乎只要得了它，就可以不费气力地包医百病。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1942, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《整頓黨的作風》 (Rectify the Party's Style of Work), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Zhídào xiànzài, háiyǒu bùshǎo de rén, bǎ Mǎkèsī-Lièníng zhǔyì shūběn shàng de mǒuxiē gèbié zìjù kànzuò xiànchéng de língdānshèngyào, sìhū zhǐyào dé le tā, jiù kěyǐ bù fèi qìlì de bāoyībǎibìng. [Pinyin]

     Even now, there are not a few people who still regard odd quotations from Marxist-Leninist works as a ready-made panacea which, once acquired, can easily cure all maladies.