The meaning of plaything.

To be tired of playing with things is to cling to enjoying what you like and kill your ambition.

Source: Song Zhuxi's Recent Thoughts: "Mr. Ming Dow is tired of memorizing general knowledge."

For example, Zhu Ziqing's On Meaninglessness: "Taoist tutors rarely write poems, saying that they are' playing with things to get tired of their ambition' and' harming Taoism', then poetry becomes meaningless. This so-called poem refers to works with expressions. "

Usage: linkage type; As predicate, object and attribute; With a derogatory connotation.

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First, divide the day and night [bǔ zhòu bǔ yè]?

Interpretation: Divination. Describe a feast day and night.

Source: Twenty-two Years of Zuo Zhuan and Zhuang Gong: "I can predict the day, I can't know the night, I dare not."

Example: Xu Zhucheng's "He Chengjun and Ye Peng": "It's better to gather all these generals in this float and travel day and night, and it's dark."

Use: combined; As predicate and attribute; With a derogatory connotation.

Second, do not do business? [ bù wù zhèng yè ]？

Interpretation: service: engaged in. Leave work and do something else.

Source: Ming Lanling Xiao Xiaosheng's "Jin Ping Mei": "This person is not very good at reading, and he has been idle all day. Since his parents died, he has been doing nothing."