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This question is about possible translations of "振聾發聵" in English.
Figuratively, this phrase is used to describe someone's article is penetrating and insightful. I know this. Nevertheless, I am seeking after a more succinct, pithy word in English to translate it.
Thank you so much for your ideas.
A Chinese-English Dictionary
rouse the deaf, enlighten the benighted
先生这番议论, 真可谓之振聋发聩。
Xiānsheng zhè fān yìlùn, zhēn kěwèi zhī zhènlóngfākuì.
Your arguments, sir, would make a deaf man hear and a blind man see.
Make a deaf man hear and a blind man see is a nice phrase.
CC-CEDICT
lit. so loud that even the deaf can hear (idiom); rousing even the apathetic
rousing even the apathetic is nice too.
