rivers and lakes
التعريفات والمعاني
== Anglais ==
=== Étymologie ===
Calque du chinois 江湖, jiānghú, composé de river (« fleuve ») et de lake (« lac »), voir fleuves et lacs > Étymologie.
=== Locution nominale ===
rivers and lakes \Prononciation ?\
(Littérature) (Chine) (Sens figuré) Fleuves et lacs, rivières et lacs.
Wandering knight errants, of ‘the world of rivers and lakes’, were supposed to be chivalrous and were expected to come to the aid of the infortunate and powerless. — (Andrea Mary Falk, A Shadow of Fallen Blossoms : he 36 and 48 verses of Baguazhang, tgl Books, 2017, ISBN 978-0-9879028-3-2)
==== Synonymes ====
jianghu
==== Quasi-synonymes ====
underworld