降心 jiàng xīn
jiàng xīn
phrase
to lower expectations; to be condescending
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Mathews 1931 '降心', p. 88)
Contained in
- 降心相从(降心相從) to lower expectations to meet the needs of the other party; to compromise
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷十五 志第五 禮二 Volume 15 Treatises 5: Rituals 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 2
- 卷二十 志第十 禮中 Volume 20 Treatises 10: Rites Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 2
- 卷二百一十 列傳第九十七: 外夷三 緬國 占城 暹國 爪哇 瑠求 三嶼 馬八兒等國 Volume 210 Biographies 97: Foreign Peoples 3 - Myanmar, Champa, Siam, Java, Liuqiu, Batanes, Maba'erdengguo History of Yuan 元史 — count: 2
- 僖公 Lord Xi The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 2
- 卷四十二 雜傳第三十: 朱宣 王師範 李罕之 孟方立 王珂 趙犨 馮行襲 Volume 42 Miscellaneous Biographies 22: Zhu Xuan, Wang Shifan, Li Hanzhi, Meng Fangli, Wang Ke, Zhao Chou, Feng Xingxi New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 1
- 卷三十三 蜀書三 後主傳 Volume 33: Book of Shu 3 - Biography of the Later Lord Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 1
- 卷二十八 韓三 Chapter 28: Han III Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 1
- 卷六十九 唐書45: 列傳21 張憲 王正言 胡裝 崔貽孫 孟鵠 孫岳 張延朗 劉延皓 劉延朗 Volume 69 Book of Later Tang 45: Biographies 21 - Zhang Xian, Wang Zhengyan, Hu Zhuang, Cui Yisun, Meng Hu, Sun Yue, Zhang Yanlang, Liu Yanhao, Liu Yanlang Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史 — count: 1
- 卷四十三 Scroll 43 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
- 卷五十二 吳書七 張顧諸葛步傳 Volume 52: Book of Wu 7 - Biographies of Zhang, Gu, Zhuge, and Bu Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 1
Collocations
- 天子降心 (天子降心) 天子降心以逆公 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 2
- 降心接下 (降心接下) 降心接下 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十 志第十 禮中 Volume 20 Treatises 10: Rites Part Two — count: 2
- 降心克己 (降心剋己) 既降心克己 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十 志第十 禮中 Volume 20 Treatises 10: Rites Part Two — count: 2