Sentence examples for bu from inspiring English sources

The theme of the event was zhen de jia bu liao (roughly: "what is genuine cannot be counterfeited")..Yet Da Vinci is embroiled in a scandal.

Fu ze ren bu zai, "the man with the key is not here", is a common way of asking for a bribe.

If they don't want to tell you what is going on they will say vaguely they are bu qingchu: literally "I'm not clear".One feature of Chinese euphemisms comes from the tonal nature of the language.

So they will frequently reply that something is bu fangbian (not convenient).

Potential donors were gently reminded of tax breaks, and the financial advantages of getting BU to look after their papers.

"Ta kan ye bu mai!" he spits.

His hapless predecessor-bu-one, Yukio Hatoyama, botched the party's big showdown with American and Japanese diplomats over the relocation of an American Marine Corps base in Okinawa prefecture.

Of such a nature are the ghanta and dril-bu, the shaman's drum, the lamps of the Indian Diwali, and the burning of incense, which was also practiced in ancient Greece, pre-Columbian America, Morocco, and many other regions.

There are countless types of bells; the Indian ghanta, or Tibetan dril-bu, a metal handbell with a handle shaken during prayers in order to attract beneficent spirits and to frighten away evil ones, is used particularly during Brahmanic and Mahayana Buddhist ceremonies.

The victors were a raggle-taggle collection of volunteer local Korean farmers, monks and landlords led by a General Jeong Mun-bu, and the monument was raised a century later, with a detailed description of the fight against the Japanese engraved on the face of it.Near Bukgwan it stood until the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05, wasch was fought chiefly over Korea.

The biography of Shakyamuni included by the Tibetan historian Bu-ston (1290 1364) in his Chos 'byung ("History of Buddhism") differs from other traditional accounts only by its listing of the later Mahayana doctrines as part of Shakyamuni's teachings on earth.