0 to make a short ringing sound like a bell -- 发出叮当声
1 to damage the surface of something slightly by hitting it -- 微损，损伤
2 a short ringing sound like that made by a bell -- 叮当声
3 a small damaged area on a surface where something has hit it -- 微损，损伤
The saying means that a promise given carries a lot of weight (like the literal weight of the nine heavy ding vessels).
To overcome this problem, a 'three-fix' (san-ding) scheme was tried in early 1955.
The great ding is to find out how it works.
The 'three-fix' referred to the official fixing of the grain output (ding-chan), the procurement quota (ding-gou), and the quantity supplied on resale to households with a deficit in grain (ding-xiao).
They are not, and it is just kid- ding ourselves to think they are.
Ding remarked that the arrangements for some of us to remember our sons and daughters was more reasonable than in past years, the overall surveillance is tighter.
Na-su-la-ding has a separate biography in the same chapter.
Facts are chiels that winna ding.
