Buddhist glossary : idiom > in a capricious and jumpy wood
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Imagi Heart ape
  Explanation: Describe the thoughts variable, like monkeys jumping, running horse, like losing control.
  Usage: Joint type; as the predicate attribute; containing derogatory
  Source: Han Wei Boyang "Tong Qi" Zhuxin ape volatile, meaning four-Chi Ma. "Tang Xu Hun" title Du Jushi "poetry machine dedicated ape-volt, God Imagi free line."
  Examples: ~ Ying dream, river fish day care geese sound book. ★ Qing Wu Jian "Twenty years Strange" The Fifth
yì mǎ xīn yuán
  See "distracted"
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Still distracted
  Still distracted. Song Zhu Yi "sleep Xuan" Poetry: "meaning ape horse heart not busy packing solution depth of sleep." Ming Anonymous "Xia 笺 sound was actually recorded exploration": "Credit goes to bow Ho Cheng Wei Chen, Patton intended to teach people Ma heart ape cited. "" Zai "seventh three times:" what to say, three years of solitary mining Gan Shou-yi, which when the intention to be tied down horse heart ape. "Tian Han," by Tiger Night ":" This my brother , in particular the Italian horse heart moving ape, I will not be extraordinary. "
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No. 4
  意马心猿
  yì mǎ xīn yuán
  〖释义〗原为佛教用语.用猿腾马比喻凡心无常.无定而多空.后来用来比喻心思不专,心神不定.又称"心猿意马".
  〖出处〗汉·魏伯阳《参同契》注:“心猿不定,意马四驰。”唐·许浑《题杜居士》诗:“机尽心猿伏,神闲意马行。”
  〖示例〗~萦梦寐,河鱼天雁托音书。(清·吴趼人《二十年目睹之怪现状》第五回)
  〖用法〗作谓语、定语;多用来形容用心不专,浮躁。
  〖近义词〗心猿意马
成语词典
  成语名称 意马心猿 汉语拼音 yì mǎ xīn yuán 成语释义 形容心思不定,好象猴子跳、马奔跑一样控制不住。 成语出处 汉·魏伯阳《参同契》注:“心猿不定,意马四驰。”唐·许浑《题杜居士》诗:“机尽心猿伏,神闲意马行。” 使用例句 意马心猿萦梦寐,河鱼天雁托音书。
  ★清·吴趼人《二十年目睹之怪现状》第五回
佛教百科
  【意马心猿】 (譬喻)心地观经八曰:“心如猿猴,游五欲树,暂不住故。”赵州录遗表曰:“心猿罢跳,意马休驰。”
佛教百科
  【意马心猿】(喻)心神驰逐不定。
English Expression
  1. n.:  in a capricious and jumpy wood,  be fanciful and fickle,  indecisive,  wavering,  restless
Thesaurus
echo, work by fits and starts, Yibaoshihan, work by fits and starts, restless and whimsical; be fanciful and fickle; in a capricious and jumpy wood, Not the end for the German
Antonym Group
be willing to toil, spare no effort; go all out; do one's best, have a good command of through diligent study, From all over the town Out, turn out in full strength, body and soul, one's mind is perturbed to forcibly restrain one's temper, application curiousness, constancy, keep one's end up, adhere not to change, granite, persevere, Breathless, go full steam ahead, Gan shi Xiaoyi, The first white north, continue to study even in old age, Hoary head Poor by, Time does not peep Park Garden, exert, Since the 1, have a style of one's own, have a mind of one's own