ability to have one's say and be listened to / influence / clout
感化
gǎn huà
corrective influence / to reform (a criminal) / redemption (of a sinner) / to influence (a malefactor to a better life) / to guide sb back to the right path by repeated word and example
clean-living and honest (idiom) / to avoid immorality / to shun evil influence / to mind one's own business and keep out of trouble / to keep one's hands clean
lit. spring wind and rain (idiom) / fig. the long-term influence of a solid education
文化圈
wén huà juàn
sphere of cultural influence
文化圈
wén huà quān
sphere of cultural influence
鞭长莫及
biān cháng mò jí
lit. the whip cannot reach (idiom) / beyond one's influence / too far to be able to help
瞿秋白
Qū Qiū bái
Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March
lit. presenting the Buddha with borrowed flowers (idiom) / fig. to win favor or influence using sb else's property / plagiarism
裙带关系
qún dài guān xi
favoritism shown to sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative / (by extension) favoritism towards relatives, friends or associates
proximity to pitch makes you black (idiom, from Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修) / different environments provide different influence. / Nurture determines a person's character.
名师出高徒
míng shī chū gāo tú
A famous teacher trains a fine student (idiom). A cultured man will have a deep influence on his successors.
阴魂不散
yīn hún bù sàn
lit. the soul of a deceased has not yet dispersed (idiom) / fig. the influence still lingers on / the spirit (of some doctrine) is still alive
clean flowing water / (fig.) (literary) honorable person, untainted by association with disreputable influences / scholars who (in former times) kept themselves aloof from the corrupting influence of those in power
王化
wáng huà
beneficial influence of the sovereign
裙带风
qún dài fēng
the practice of favoring sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative / (by extension) culture of favoritism towards relatives, friends and associates
贯气
guàn qì
(feng shui) beneficial influence, esp. from one's ancestral graves / to confer a beneficial influence
More moral strength increases one's safety, more power and influence increases one's danger (idiom, from Records of the Historian 史記|史记). cf Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it (William Pitt the Elder, 1770).
酒后驾驶
jiǔ hòu jià shǐ
driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI)
酒言酒语
jiǔ yán jiǔ yǔ
words spoken under the influence of alcohol (idiom)
钻谋
zuān móu
to use influence to get what one wants / to find a way through (esp. corrupt) / to succeed by means fair or foul
official who gained his position through the influence of a female relative
刻奇
kè qí
(loanword) kitsch, in a sense that originates in the writing of Milan Kundera: getting emotional about sth due to the influence of social conditioning
霸妻
bà qī
to use one's power and influence to take another man's wife for oneself
瞿秋白
Qú Qiū bái
Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March
反渗透法
Fǎn shèn tòu fǎ
(Tw) Anti-infiltration Act (2020), which regulates the influence of entities deemed foreign hostile forces
撬动
qiào dòng
to shift sth with a crowbar etc / (fig.) to influence by applying leverage
shì