Chinese–English dictionary

轟炸

The action of dropping bombs from the air. · hōng zhà

轡

(equestrian) The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins. · pèi

车

(slang) An insult or put-down; an expression of disrespect. · chē

车厢

(rail, UK, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit. · chē xiāng

车库

A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items. · chē kù

车臣

A republic and federal subject of Russia, in the northern Caucasus. Official name: Chechen Republic. Capital: Grozny. · Chē chén

车身

The outer shell of a car (or any similarly sized motor vehicle), as opposed to the chassis. · chē shēn

车辆

A conveyance: a spacious device for carrying or transporting substances, objects, people or animals. · chē liàng

轨座

(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that supports another part or reduces friction. · guǐ zuò

轨道

(astronomy, space) The path of a body as it travels through space. · guǐ dào

转世

A rebirth of a soul, in a physical life form, such as a body. · zhuǎn shì

转位

(music) The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave. · zhuǎn wèi

转变的

(figurative) Transitory, ephemeral, not lasting. · zhuǎn biàn de

转向灯

A post bearing a sign that gives information on directions. · zhuǎn xiàng dēng

转速表

A device for measuring the revolutions per minute (RPMs) of a revolving shaft, as with the driveshaft of an automobile. · zhuàn sù biǎo

轮子

(automotive) The angle of the axis around which a car's front wheels rotate when the steering wheel is turned, with a vertical axis being defined as zero caster. · lún zi

轮椅

A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person. · lún yǐ

轮胎

Tires with metal protrusions used for improved traction on snow and ice in winter. · lún tāi

轮辐

A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning. · lún fú

软

Soft; floppy. · ruǎn

软件

A complete piece of software. · ruǎn jiàn

软弱

Lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve. · ruǎn ruò

软木

(botany, uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water. · ruǎn mù

软膏剂

(medicine) A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient. · ruǎn gāo jì

软饮料

A medium, usually fluid, used to draw heat from an object. · ruǎn yǐn liào

软骨

(skeleton, uncountable) A usually translucent and somewhat elastic, dense, nonvascular connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract, in structures such as the external ear, and in the articulating surfaces of joints. It composes most of the skeleton of vertebrate embryos, being replaced by bone during ossification in the higher vertebrates. · ruǎn gǔ

轰炸机

(aviation, military) A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs. · hōng zhà jī

轻

(medicine) Not posing any serious threat to health; not particularly aggressive or recurrent. · qīng

辅音

(phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel. · fǔ yīn

输精管切除

(surgery) The surgical incision of all or part of the vas deferens as a means of male sterilization. · shū jīng guǎn qiè chú

辛巴威

A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zimbabwe. Formerly called Southern Rhodesia or Rhodesia. · Xīn bā wēi

辛迪加

(crime) A group of gangsters engaged in organized crime. · xīn dí jiā

辞呈

The act of resigning. · cí chéng

辞职

(transitive, obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit. [mid 16th – early 19th c.] · cí zhí

辣

Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; tangy. [from 17th c.] · là

辣根

(uncountable) A pungent condiment made from the root of the plant. · là gēn

辣椒

(countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking. · là jiāo

辣椒粉

A bright reddish orange colour resembling that of the ground spice. · là jiāo fěn

辨识

(transitive) To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes. · biàn shí

辫子

A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. [from 16th c.] · biàn zi

辭書學

(uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries. · cí shū xué

辭職

(chiefly, uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa. · cí zhí

辯論

(uncountable) Controversy; debate. · biàn lùn

農場

(countable) A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock. · nóng chǎng

農村的

Relating to the countryside or to agriculture. · nóng cūn de

農業

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock. · nóng yè

農民

A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm#Noun. · nóng mín

边

A sharp edge or ridge formed by the intersection of two surfaces · biān

边塞

Land near a border; marches. · biān sài

达喀尔

The capital city of Senegal. · Dá kā ěr

达尔文

The capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. · Dá ěr wén

达达主义

A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art. · dá dá zhǔ yì

迅速地

Rapidly; with speed; fast. · xùn sù dì

过

(intransitive, informal) To leave or depart. · guò

过于

To an excessive degree. · guò yú

过去

Having already happened; in the past; finished. [from 14th c.] · guò qù

过山车

An amusement ride consisting of a train on a track that rises, falls, twists and turns. · guò shān chē

过敏

(medicine, immunology, broadly) A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma; any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance. · guò mǐn

过敏的

Of or pertaining to allergy. · guò mǐn de

过时的

Out of date, old-fashioned, antiquated. · guò shí de

过氧化物

(inorganic chemistry) A divalent radical or anion containing two oxygen atoms linked by a covalent bond; any substance containing this group yields hydrogen peroxide when treated with an acid. · guò yǎng huà wù

迈阿密

A number of townships in the United States, including five in Ohio, listed under Miami Township. · Mài ā mì

运动

(countable, uncountable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. · yùn dòng

运动员

(US, Canada) A person who actively participates in physical sports, especially with great skill; a sportsperson. · yùn dòng yuán

运河

An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation. · yùn hé

运输

An act or instance of conveying. · yùn shū

近

In a close manner. · jìn

近日点

(astronomy) The point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun. · jìn rì diǎn

近視

(figurative) A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning. · jìn shì

还

To even the slightest extent, at all. · hái

还原号

(music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮. [from 18th c.] · huán yuán hào

还是

Introduces a simple indirect question (without a correlative). · hái shi

还有

Used to express an official plan, arrangement, or scheduled event. · hái yǒu

这

Of this, that, or it. · zhè

这儿

(location) In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there. · zhè r

这边

(telephone) Indication that the person requested is the same as the one who is currently speaking. · zhè biān

这里

(location) In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there. · zhè lǐ

进

To or towards the inside of. · jìn

进入

(uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage. · jìn rù

进展

A forward move; improvement or progression. · jìn zhǎn

进步

(accounting) The total monetary amount owed to a financial entity due to debts arising from sales on credit or on account. · jìn bù

进步主义

A political ideology that favours progress towards better conditions in society. · jìn bù zhǔ yì

进行

To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically. · jìn xíng

进行曲

A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies. · jìn xíng qǔ

远

At, to, or from a great distance; far away. · yuǎn

远地点

(astronomy) The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is farthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter. · yuǎn dì diǎn

远程

At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. · yuǎn chéng

连

(not comparable) Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical. · lián

连接号

The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line. · lián jiē hào

连浊

(linguistics) In the Japanese language, a phenomenon which governs the voicing of the initial consonant of the non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word. An example is 時々 (ときどき, tokidoki), where the second, iterative element "-toki" becomes "-doki" and 折り紙 (おりがみ, origami) where the word 紙 (かみ, kami; paper) becomes "gami". · lián zhuó

连衣裙

The official robe of certain professionals, clerics, and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc. · lián yī qún

连裤袜

Having a tendency to cling. · lián kù wà

连词

(astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects. · lián cí

连音

(phonology) Any of a wide variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries, such as the fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of sounds due to neighboring sounds or due to the grammatical function of adjacent words. · lián yīn

迟到

(idiomatic) Late, arriving late. · chí dào

迦南

A historic region of the Middle East, roughly equivalent to Palestine/Israel. · Jiā nán

迦太基

(historical) An ancient city in North Africa, in modern Tunisia. [16th cent.] · Jiā tài jī

迦太基人

A native or inhabitant of Carthage. · jiā tài jī rén

迪拜

A city in the United Arab Emirates; the capital of Dubai emirate. · Dí bài

迫害

The act of persecuting, especially a specific group of people; an instance of persecution. · pò hài

迭代冪次

(arithmetic) The arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation, by analogy with exponentiation being repeated multiplication and multiplication being repeated addition, ^ba denoting a to the power of a to the power of \ldots to the power of a, in which a appears b times. · dié dài mì cì

迴響

To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing. · huí xiǎng

迷

(transitive) To pull toward without touching. · mí

迷人

having to power to allure · mí rén

迷住

(idiomatic) Something of particular interest or concern; an obsession. · mí zhu

迷信

A belief or beliefs, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that events may be influenced by one's behavior in some magical or mystical way. · mí xìn

迷宫

A structure similar to a maze, but containing only one path with no branches, as distinguished from a maze which contains multiple branching paths · mí gōng

迷宮

(anatomy) A complex structure in the inner ear which contains the organs of hearing and balance, consisting of bony cavities (the bony labyrinth) filled with fluid and lined with sensitive membranes (the membranous labyrinth). · mí gōng

迷彩樣式

(textiles) A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces. · mí cǎi yàng shì

迷思

A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality. · mí sī

迷迭香

A variety of the Romani language (or occasionally) the Romani macrolanguage. · mí dié xiāng

追求

(transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed. · zhuī qiú

追求者

One who pursues someone, especially a woman, for a romantic relationship or marriage; a wooer; one who falls in love with or courts someone. · zhuī qiú zhě

退休

The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career. [from 17th c.] · tuì xiū

退休金

(finance) An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes. [from 16th c.] · tuì xiū jīn

退出

(idiomatic) To resign, or leave, with one's credibility or reputation still intact. · tuì chū

退化

(transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities. · tuì huà

送

To bring or transport something to its destination. · sòng

适合

To suit; to befit. · shì hé

适应性

Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable. · shì yìng xìng

适度

Unwilling or with reluctance. · shì dù

逃亡者

A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal their identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution, or to avoid some other unwanted situation. · táo wáng zhě

逃学

(British, India) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off'). · táo xué

逃生

(intransitive) To get free; to free oneself. · táo shēng

逃跑

(intransitive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away. [From mid 16th century.] · táo pǎo

选举的

Of, or relating to elections. · xuǎn jǔ de

选单

The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare. · xuǎn dān

透明

(textiles) Very thin or transparent. · tòu míng

透明度

(uncountable) The quality of being transparent. · tòu míng dù

透析

(chemistry) A method of separating molecules or particles of different sizes by differential diffusion through a semipermeable membrane. · tòu xī

透石膏

(astronomy) Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon. · tòu shí gāo

透视

The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision. · tòu shì

透镜

(optics) An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it. · tòu jìng

途中

On the way. · tú zhōng

逗号

(colloquial) A mark of a soiled finger wiped on a surface. · dòu hào

逗哏

Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable. · dòu gén

逗號

(typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. · dòu hào

這

The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby). · zhè

通俗

In certain socialist states: of, from, or controlled (at least in name) by the common people rather than a ruling elite. · tōng sú

通奸

(narrowly) Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry · tōng jiān

通常的

Familiar with something through repeated experience; adapted to existing conditions. (of a person) · tōng cháng de

通心粉

(uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes, typically boiled and served in soup, with a sauce, or in melted cheese; a dish of this. [from 18th c.] · tōng xīn fěn

通才

A person with a broad general knowledge, especially one with more than superficial knowledge in several areas and the ability to combine ideas from diverse fields. · tōng cái

通数国语文的人

(also, figuratively) One who has mastered (especially when able to speak) several languages. · tōng shù guó yǔ wén de rén

通晓

Knowledgeable or skilled, either through study or experience; familiar; practiced. · tōng xiǎo

通气管

(underwater diving) A hollow tube, held in the mouth, or mounted on and opening into a diving mask, used by swimmers for breathing underwater. · tōng qì guǎn

通灵术

A philosophical doctrine, established in France in the mid nineteenth century, postulating that humans are essentially immortal spirits that temporarily inhabit physical bodies, and may have influence on the physical world. · tōng líng shù

通知

(transitive) To formally give information or notice to; to inform or counsel. [with of ‘what is communicated’] · tōng zhī

通行費

A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc. · tōng xíng fèi

通货紧缩

(economics) A decrease in the general price level, that is, in the nominal cost of goods and services as well as wages. · tōng huò jǐn suō