Idioms with flexible parts of speech

1. Nouns are used as verbs. The phenomenon that nouns act as verbs is quite common in ancient Chinese, and this phenomenon is also retained in idioms, such as:

Anyone who is literate and brave can get married.

2. Nouns are used as adverbials

The nouns used as adverbials discussed here refer to ordinary nouns, some of which are used as adverbials, some as metaphors, some as attitudes towards people, and some as places or tools. Here are some examples:

(1) indicates metaphor. This is the action feature of a person or thing represented by a noun used as an adverbial to describe the action mode or state represented by a verb, for example:

Tigers live in Longtan, devour and disappear without a trace. They are fast and ruthless.

The beauty and beauty of the dragon are falling apart, and so on.

Nouns in these idioms can be translated as "like …".

(2) refers to places or tools, such as:

Look around, listen to hearsay, sleep in the wind, fight in the south and fight in the north, punch and kick.

3. Causative usage of nouns

We have described the situation that nouns are used as general verbs, and nouns are occasionally used as causative verbs, such as deep-rooted, deep and solid.

4. Verb usage of nouns

When a noun is used flexibly, it means that the person or thing represented by the object is regarded as the person or thing represented by this noun. For example:

Fish and fish, people ignore human life, Tian Mu ·Xi· Di

(B) the flexible use of verbs

The causative usage of verbs, as the name implies, means that the person or thing represented by the subject does not perform the action represented by the verb, but makes the person or thing represented by the object perform the action. In ancient Chinese, there are many such situations and many idioms, such as:

Flying sand and stones are earth-shattering, shocking grass and breaking bridges, sinking ships and making waves.

(C) the flexible use of adjectives

1. adjectives are used as causative agents, even if the person or thing represented by the object has the nature or state represented by the adjective, such as:

Qiang Bing, a rich country, used to be rich, but now it is thin.

2. Adjectives are used as conation

The so-called conative usage of adjectives does not mean that the person or thing represented by the object has the nature or state represented by this adjective, but subjectively thinks that he has this nature or state, such as:

Arrogant, son preference, not far from Wan Li, arrogant and expensive.

Help the poor, be happy, and value reason over literature.