The 7 great Chinese idioms to flatter the beauty of a girl

1.       沉魚落雁
Chényúluòyàn
Chén: sink
yú: fish
luò: fall
: goose
本意謂因女子貌美,使魚潛入水,鳥兒高飛,躲避起來。後用以形容女子容貌美麗。
That mean a woman who is to be beautiful enough to make fish sink and geese settle to be hide under the water.
Ex. 据说古希腊的海伦有沉鱼落雁,闭月羞花的容貌。
Jùshuō gǔ xīlà dì hǎilún yǒu chényúluòyàn, bì yuè xiū huā de róngmào.

It is said that Helen in ancient Greece has the beautiful appearance of sinking fish and falling geese and closing the moon.
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2. 傾城傾國
Qīngchéngqīngguó
Qīng: ruin
chéng:city
guó: country
An exceeding beautiful woman may ruin a city or a country." It is similar to the slang, : To love and be wise is impossible.


3.      絕代佳人
Juédài jiārén
絕代Juédài: Peerless
佳人jiārén: Beauty
A beauty of beauties; an incomparable beauty; a beautiful woman of unsurpassed beauty; a woman of peerless beauty.

4. 如花似玉
Rúhuā sì yù
像花和玉一樣美好。多形容女子姿容出眾。
A girl who is so wonderful as flower and flawless jade.
Mary是一個如花似玉的女孩,和我互相喜歡
Mary shì yīgè rúhuā sì yù de nǚhái, hé wǒ hùxiāng xǐhuān
Mary is a wonderful girl who is like flowers and as jades, we like each other.

5..
出水芙蓉
Chūshuǐ fúróng
Chū: come out
shuǐ= water
芙蓉fúróng= lotus flower
芙蓉:荷花。本謂露出水面剛開放的荷花。原比喻詩文寫得清新。後也用以比喻女子的容貌清秀美麗。
a lotus flower just rose from under (the) water -- a phrase used for praising a pretty girl who is like a lotus flower when fully open; as natural and loveable as the lotus just out of water; the lovely lily that has just sprung into blossom from the water

6.. 千嬌百媚
Qiānjiāobǎimèi
Qiān=thousand
嬌:Beautiful and charming
bǎi; hundred
媚:Beautiful and charming

形容女子姿色情態都很美
It is described a girl who is to be exquisitely dainty and ravishingly beautiful in a hundred and a thousand charms in anytime and at any pose.

EX.

1.          您在这里,可以尽赏荷花的千姿百态、千娇百媚,也可以尽情地体会荷花山污泥而不染的风韵。
Here you can enjoy the different varieties of beautiful and charming lotus. In China, people often used a poem "Live in the silt but not imbrued" to praise the quality of the flowers.
2.      我们需要全心全意地过好每一时刻,动用我们所有感官:呼吸后花园里的芬芳、悦目于六岁小儿的蜡笔彩绘、惊羡彩虹的千娇百媚。
We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses—finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six - year - old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow.
3.      我希望,有一天,再也没有冷漠的客服,而我打电话给论坛上千娇百媚的客服的时候,听到的,也不会再是男人的声音。
I hope that someday, no indifference, and I call customer service on the BBS, coquettish features make, also won't hear the voice of a man is.
4.      她对丈夫总是千娇百媚。
She is bewitchingly charming to her husband.
5.      话音一转,竟又千娇百媚起来。
Once the words sound turn and unexpectedly and quite fascinating get up.
6.      是珠宝中唯一有生命的千年灵物,光泽艳丽、温润可人、晶莹剔透、千娇百媚。
Is the only living Jewellery millennium Fetish, shiny bright, gentle, pleasant, crystal clear, Enchanting.
7.      戏里的女子都是千娇百媚、万种风情。
Women are drama , 10,000 kinds of customs.

7.
眉目如畫
Méimù rú huà
謂容貌像畫一樣美麗。形容人容顏美麗。語出《後漢書·馬援傳》:「為人明鬚髮,眉目如畫。」


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