"茅庐" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 茅庐 | máo lú | thatched cottage |   | |
Approximate Results for 茅庐 | ||||
| 初出茅庐 | chū chū máo lú | venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom) / young and inexperienced / novice / greenhorn | | |
| 三顾茅庐 | sān gù máo lú | lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4] in which Liu Bei 劉備|刘备[Liu2 Bei4] recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮[Zhu1 ge3 Liang4] to his cause by visiting him three times) / fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb | | |
