此起彼伏
Traditional form:
此起彼伏
Pinyin (reading):
cǐqǐbǐfú
Definitions:
- up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession
- no sooner one subsides, the next arises
- repeating continuously
- occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc)
Characters:
- 此 - this, these; in this case, then
- 起 - to begin, to initiate; to rise, to stand up
- 彼 - that, those, the other
- 伏 - to crouch, to crawl, to lie hidden, to conceal
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