靈丹聖藥

Chinese

		panacea; efficacious elixir
trad. (靈丹聖藥)		靈丹	聖藥
simp. (灵丹圣药)		灵丹	圣药

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): língdānshèngyào

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄉㄢ ㄕㄥˋ ㄧㄠˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: língdānshèngyào
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄉㄢ ㄕㄥˋ ㄧㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: língdanshèngyào
    • Wade–Giles: ling²-tan¹-shêng⁴-yao⁴
    • Yale: líng-dān-shèng-yàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lingdanshenqyaw
    • Palladius: линданьшэнъяо (lindanʹšɛnʺjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liŋ³⁵ tän⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ jɑʊ̯⁵¹/

Idiom

靈丹聖藥

1. Synonym of 靈丹妙藥 / 灵丹妙药 (língdānmiàoyào, “miracle cure; wonder pill; panacea”)

   • 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.