What does toss and turn mean? Idioms and detailed explanations
The first style ㄓㄢ ㄓㄨㄢ ㄓㄨㄢ ㄈㄢ ㄘㄜˋ Chinese Pinyin zhǎn zhuǎn fǎn cè Synonyms 轉辗反侧 展转反侧 出处 Poetry ˙ Zhou Nan ˙ Guan Ju: "Seek not to be able to, at any time to think of serving, leisurely and leisurely, tossing and turning side to side." The Poetry Scriptures. Guan Ju (关雎) describes a man in a river. Guan Ju" describes a man who met a girl of good character and good looks by the river, so he thought about her day and night and could not forget her, wanting to form a good relationship with her, so much so that he "tossed and turned". Manifold Lights˙Seventy-third episode: "Tossing and turning is really knowing that both warblers and swallows can be loved, but fighting for the bears and fish cannot be combined. Ming Lu Cai (陆采), Huai Xiang Ji (怀香記), 8th episode: "I love him very much, so I pine and faint in the daytime and toss and turn at night." Qing Dynasty - Wang Tao, "Songbin Zaoshan - Tian Lishang": "I heard that the girl was tossing and turning for a long time without sleep." Three Kingdoms: Volume 60: Biography of Zhou Bream in the Book of Wu: "Whenever I look to the west, I am always awake and sighing, and I am tossing and turning". Interpretation: "Tossing and turning" and "turning sideways" both refer to restless sleep and tossing and turning. Later, the idiom of "tossing and turning" was used to describe a person who tossed and turned because of a heavy heart and could not sleep. It is also called "展转反侧" and "转辗反侧". 例句 Lao Wang was tossed and turned by the lawsuit and could not sleep at night. Xiao Ming is going abroad for sightseeing tomorrow, and he is tossing and turning until dawn. He was tossing and turning and was too nervous to sleep when he took the test the day after tomorrow. I thought of my mother's hard work, and I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, wanting to get up and be with her. (邹韬奋《我的母亲》) Usage 联合式;作谓语、状语;用于书面语;指睡不着觉 用在「反复难眠」的表述上。