永不生锈的螺丝钉
Traditional form:
永不生銹的螺絲釘
Pinyin (reading):
yǒngbùshēngxiùdeluósīdīng
Definitions:
- a "screw that never rusts" — sb who selflessly and wholeheartedly serves the Communist Party, like Lei Feng 雷鋒／雷锋 ( Léi Fēng), to whom the metaphor is attributed
Characters:
- 永 - long; perpetual, eternal; forever
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
- 锈 - to rust, to corrode
- 的 - aim, goal; of; possessive particle; -self suffix
- 螺 - spiral shell, conch; spiral
- 丝 - silk, fine thread; wire; strings
- 钉 - nail, spike
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