空穴来风

空穴來風
kōngxuéláifēng
  1. lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom)
  2. fig. unfounded (story)
  3. baseless (claim)

CEDICT

  1. (of a rumour, in modern uses, sometimes proscribed) to be completely unsound; to be utterly baseless
  2. (of a rumour, literary, dated) to be not completely unsound; to have a basis for its existence
  3. to be completely unsound; to be utterly baseless
  4. to be not completely unsound; to have a basis for its existence

Wiktionary

  1. 并非完全没有根据；有根据的存在
  2. 毫无根据；完全没有根据

維基詞典

Entry Composition

=1 空穴 kòngxué electron hole (physics)
=1 空穴 kǒngxué
  1. (electronics) (positive) hole; cavity
  2. (physics, Mainland China) electron hole
  3. (positive) hole; cavity
  4. cavity; hole
  5. electron hole
  6. empty house
2 来 lái
  1. to come
  2. (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  3. hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回来 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以来 zìgǔyǐlái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after 得 dé to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来 tándelái, or after 不 bù to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来 chībulái)
3 风 fēng
  1. wind
  2. news
  3. style
  4. custom
  5. manner

classifiers: 陣, 絲

Containing this entry

空穴来风未必无因 kòngxuéláifēngwèibìwúyīn
  1. wind does not come from an empty cave without reason
  2. there's no smoke without fire (idiom)

Related entries

凭空 píngkōng
  1. baseless (lie)
  2. without foundation
悬 xuán
  1. to hang or suspend
  2. to worry
  3. public announcement
  4. unresolved
  5. baseless
  6. without foundation
四面八方都是巍峨的雪峰，將他們包圍起來，彼此交錯，一直延伸到遙遠的地平線。兩側的岩岸陡峭無比，落葉松和松樹彷彿懸在他們頭頂，只需一陣風就能轟然落下。

In every direction the great snow-capped peaks hemmed them in, peeping over each other's shoulders to the far horizon. So steep were the rocky banks on either side of them that the larch and the pine seemed to be suspended over their heads, and to need only a gust of wind to come hurtling down upon them.

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