try to deceive by covering up one 's real purpose
Affectation, Chinese idioms, Pinyin is Ji à or ó uz à Ozu à. The metaphor is deliberately artificial and unnatural. It comes from Shuogua in Zhouyi.
Idiom explanation
Straighten: to make curved into straight; knead: to make straight into curved.
The origin of Idioms
Shuogua in the book of changes: "Kan is for Jiao Rou and for Yin Lun.
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym]: affectation, affectation [antonym]: innocence, innocence
Idiom usage
It is formal, predicate, attribute, object, adverbial and derogatory. They were good women, but they had to pretend to be men. The thirty second chapter of Jing Hua Yuan by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty
try to deceive by covering up one 's real purpose
shoulder to shoulder and arm in arm - āi jiān dā bèi
live as a recluse scholar and behave eccentrically - sù yǐn xíng guài
Travel from the past to the present - xíng gǔ zhì jīn