- up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession
- no sooner one subsides, the next arises
- repeating continuously
- occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc)
Characters
- 此 (此): this; these
- 起 (起): to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
- 彼 (彼): that; those; (one) another
- 伏 (伏): surname Fu
Resources
- Wiktionary: 此起彼伏
- MDBG: 此起彼伏
- Examples with 此起彼伏 on Tatoeba
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