Chinese–English dictionary

印度人

(countable) A person from India. [from 13th c.] · Yìn dù rén

印度尼西亚

A country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of Indonesia (since 1950). Capital: Jakarta. · Yìn dù ní xī yà

印度教

A religion, philosophy and culture native to India, characterized by the belief in reincarnation and a supreme oneness personified in many forms and natures. · Yìn dù jiào

印板

(molecular biology) A macromolecule which provides a pattern for the synthesis of another molecule. · yìn bǎn

印章

A distinctive marking, symbol or logo. · yìn zhāng

印象派

(arts) An art movement characterized by visible brushstrokes, ordinary subject matter, and an emphasis on light and its changing qualities. · yìn xiàng pài

印象​深刻

Emotionally moved; touched.

危

(of an, act or product) Full of risks; risky; liable to be in danger; requiring courage; rash. · wēi

危地馬拉

A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Guatemala, a Central American country. · Wēi dì mǎ lā

危地马拉

A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Guatemala, a Central American country. · Wēi dì mǎ lā

危机

A seizure or convulsion. · wēi jī

危機

A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point. · wēi jī

危险

An instance or cause of likely harm. · wēi xiǎn

危險

Exposure to likely harm; peril. · wēi xiǎn

即使

Although, despite (it) being. · jí shǐ

即兴

The act or art of composing and making music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously · jí xìng

即时的

(figurative) A short moment. · jí shí de

卵子

(cytology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell. · luǎn zǐ

卵巢

(anatomy) A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova in most animals, and in mammals, secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone. · luǎn cháo

卵形

Having the shape of an oval. · luǎn xíng

卵泡

(anatomy) A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle. · luǎn pāo

卵石

A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water. · luǎn shí

卷層雲

(meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type appearing as a whitish veil, usually fibrous but sometimes smooth, which may totally cover the sky and which often produces halo phenomena. Abbreviated Cs · juǎn céng yún

卷曲

A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet. · juǎn qū

卷须

A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes. · juǎn xū

厂

A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials. · hǎn

厄洛斯

(Greek god) The god of love and sexual desire; son of either Erebus and Nyx or Aphrodite and Ares. His Roman counterpart is Cupid. · è luò sī

厄瓜多尔

A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Ecuador. Capital: Quito. · è guā duō ěr

厄瓜多爾

A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Ecuador. Capital: Quito. · è guā duō ěr

厄運

An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable. · è yùn

历代志

(book of the bible) A book of the Jewish Tanakh, divided into two Books of Chronicles in the Christian Bible. · lì dài zhì

历史

Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history. · lì shǐ

历史学家

A writer of history. · lì shǐ xué jiā

厉害

With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly. · lì hai

压力

A pressing; a force applied to a surface. · yā lì

厌女症

Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women. · yàn nǚ zhèng

厌恶

Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike. · yàn wù

厕所

(now, historical, or, archaic) Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair. [from 17th c.] · cè suǒ

厚

Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension. · hòu

厚度

(uncountable) The property of being thick (in dimension). · hòu dù

厚顏

The characteristic of being brash. · hòu yán

原

(not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others. · yuán

原则

A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem. · yuán zé

原力

(humorous, or, science fiction, with the, often, capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note. [1977] · yuán lì

原告

One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault. · yuán gào

原因

(legal) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution. · yuán yīn

原型

An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype. [from mid 16th c.] · yuán xíng

原始的

(idiomatic) A nonconformist; an unusual or unconventional person, who may be rejected or disdained by others for this reason. · yuán shǐ de

原始的人

Wild; not cultivated or tamed. · yuán shǐ de rén

原姓

The original last name of a person, usually a woman, who has changed their last name upon marriage. · yuán xìng

原子

(chemistry, physics) The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. [from 16th c.] · yuán zǐ

原子序

(physics, chemistry) The number of protons in an atom. Symbol: Z · yuán zi xù

原子序数

(physics, chemistry) The number of protons in an atom. Symbol: Z · yuán zǐ xù shù

原子弹

(slang) Abbreviation of atomic bomb; a weapon that derives its energy from nuclear reactions and has enormous destructive power; in particular, those that rely on the uncontrolled explosive chain reaction of nuclear fission. · yuán zǐ dàn

原子核

(physics) A nucleus of an atom; consisting of protons and neutrons, surrounded by an electron cloud. · yuán zǐ hé

原子量

(proscribed) atomic weight; the average mass of atoms of an element. · yuán zǐ liàng

原教旨主義

(religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts. · yuán jiào zhǐ zhǔ yì

原文如此

Thus; as written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source. · yuán wén rú cǐ

原料

(economics) Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges. · yuán liào

原牛

An extinct European mammal, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of domestic cattle. · yuán niú

原理

A fundamental assumption or guiding belief. · yuán lǐ

原生

Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported. · yuán shēng

原諒

(transitive) To forgive, excuse or overlook (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked). · yuán liàng

原谅

(intransitive, often followed by “for”) To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends · yuán liàng

厨师

The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment. · chú shī

厨房

The rear, back, or unseen portion (of something). · chú fáng

厨房的

Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking. · chú fáng de

厭惡

An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty. · yàn wù

厰

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. [from 17th c.] · chǎng

去

(transitive, US, regional, Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device). · qù

去世

(transitive) To make indecipherable; to obliterate. · qù shì

去势的

A castrated male horse. · qù shì de

去年

(This entry is a translation hub.) · qù nián

去骨

(ambitransitive) To remove the bones from. · qù gǔ

叁

A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••). · sān

参与

A share or interest in a business or a given situation. · cān yù

参加

(archaic, intransitive) To approach; to arrive, to come forward. [15th–19th c.] · cān jiā

参孙

(biblical character) An Israelite judge in the Old Testament who performed feats of strength against the Philistines but was betrayed by Delilah his mistress. · Cān sūn

参数

A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc. · cān shù

参见

Compare; compare to; compare with. · cān jiàn

参观

(intransitive) To travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries. · cān guān

参议院

(Canada) The Senate of Canada; the upper house of the Canadian parliament; "the Senate". · cān yì yuàn

參加

(intransitive) To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something). [from 16th c.] · cān jiā

又及

(countable) An addendum to a letter, added after the author's signature. · yòu jí

叉子

Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc. · chā zi

叉车

A small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load, often on pallets, to be lifted and moved. · chā chē

及时行乐

Enjoy the present, make the most of today, (common mistranslation) seize the day. · jí shí xíng lè

友情

(formal, literary) Friendship; friendliness. · yǒu qíng

友誼

Close friendship in a group of friends or teammates. · yǒu yì

双声

The repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables. · shuāng shēng

双子座

(zodiac constellations) A constellation of the zodiac traditionally taken to represent the pair of twins Castor and Pollux in Greek mythology. It contains the stars Castor, Pollux, and Alhena. · Shuāng zǐ zuò

双工

(US, Canada, Australia) A house made up of two dwelling units. · shuāng gōng

双性恋的

(of humans, or, other animals) Sexually attracted to both same-gendered and different-gendered partners. (Compare pansexual.) · shuāng xìng liàn de

双方

Having two sides. · shuāng fāng

双曲线

(uncountable) The use of a word or phrase carrying negative connotations or imagery (especially one that is derogatory, offensive or vulgar) to replace a (more) neutral original. · shuāng qū xiàn

双筒望远镜

A hand-held device consisting of a series of lenses and prisms, used to magnify objects so that they can be better seen from a distance, and looked at through both eyes. · shuāng tǒng wàng yuǎn jìng

双簧管

(woodwind instrument) A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family. · shuāng huáng guǎn

双耳瓶

(chiefly, _, historical) A large vessel, especially a thin-necked clay vat used in ancient Greece and Rome for storing and transporting wine and oil. · shuāng ěr píng

双轮战车

A two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare. · shuāng lún zhàn chē

双重性

(projective geometry) The interchangeability of points and planes. · shuāng zhòng xìng

双马尾

Carpiodes cyprinus, a freshwater fish of the sucker family with a long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin, native to the eastern and central United States. · shuāng mǎ wěi

双鱼座

(zodiac constellations) The Fish, a Greco-Roman constellation of the zodiac named for its presumed resemblance to a pair of fish · Shuāng yú zuò

反乌托邦

A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc. · fǎn wū tuō bāng

反动

Fanatically opposing progress or reform. · fǎn dòng

反基督

(Christianity, Islam) A false messiah who, under direct control of the Devil, will usher in the abomination in the end times; a false prophet. · fǎn Jī dū

反射

(usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. · fǎn shè

反對

Against, opposed to. · fǎn duì

反常

The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. [First attested in the mid 19th century.] · fǎn cháng

反常性

(uncountable) The condition or state of being unusual. · fǎn cháng xìng

反应

(literal) A suddenly reversed or backward motion, such as of a rope or elastic band when it snaps under tension. · fǎn yìng

反應

An action or statement in response to a stimulus or other event. · fǎn yìng

反應堆

(chemistry, engineering) A structure used to contain chemical or other reactions. · fǎn yìng duī

反應過度

A reaction that is excessive. · fǎn yìng guò dù

反抗

The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being. · fǎn kàng

反派

A deliberate scoundrel. · fǎn pài

反物质

(physics) Matter that is composed of the antiparticles of those that constitute normal matter. · fǎn wù zhì

反犹太主义

(narrower sense) Prejudice, discrimination, hostility or political or religious opposition directed against ethnic or religious Jews or against Judaism; antijudaism; judeophobia. · fǎn Yóu tài zhǔ yì

反粒子

(particle) A subatomic particle corresponding to another particle with the same mass, spin and mean lifetime but with charge, parity, strangeness and other quantum numbers flipped in sign; a particle that has a reversed world line to another. · fǎn lì zǐ

反红

(particle physics) One of the three possible colours of an antiquark, corresponding to red in a quark. · fǎn hóng

反英雄

(literature, RPG) A protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals. · fǎn yīng xióng

反蓝

(not comparable, particle physics) Describing one of the three possible colours of an antiquark, corresponding to blue in a quark. · fǎn lán

反語

(rhetoric) The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context. · fǎn yǔ

反转

(transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction. · fǎn zhuǎn

反駁

(transitive) To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute. · fǎn bó

反駁​聲明

(legal) A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate.

反驳

To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation. · fǎn bó

发

(intransitive) To put on a public display. · fā

发动机

A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion. · fā dòng jī

发圈

(idiomatic, informal, usually, derogatory) The favorite, especially a young one, especially of someone in power; a fair-haired boy (US), (Australian). · fà quān

发型

A hairdo. · fà xíng

发型 髮型

The style in which someone's hair has been cut and arranged.

发射

Something which is emitted or sent out; issue. · fā shè

发明者

One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation. · fā míng zhě

发热

A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad. · fā rè

发现

To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing. · fā xiàn

发生

(intransitive) To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself. · fā shēng

发电机

Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. · fā diàn jī

发票

A sweet and flaky yeast-raised roll made from a dough using butter or margarine and filled with remonce (butter and sugar) or custard. · fā piào

发誓

(chiefly, US, colloquial) To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely. · fā shì

发酵

Fermentation. · fā jiào

发音

(uncountable) The act of mispronouncing. · fā yīn

取

(transitive) To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive. · qǔ

取保候审

The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial. · qǔ bǎo hòu shěn

取出

(chiefly, clothing) To remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried). · qǔ chū

取得

The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment. · qǔ dé

取得一致

Joined into a single entity. · qǔ dé yī zhì

取樣

(transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of. · qǔ yàng

取消

To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.] · qǔ xiāo

受体

Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such. [from 19th c.] · shòu tǐ

受动

(countable, broadly, by extension) A submissive partner in a sexual relationship. · shòu dòng