Chinese–English dictionary

例子

Something that is representative of all such things in a group. · lì zi

侍者

A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar. · shì zhě

侏儒

(pejorative) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish. · zhū rú

侏儒妖

The fictional dwarf who is the title character of that story. · zhū rú yāo

侏罗纪

A mountain range on the border of France and Switzerland, extending into Germany; in full, Jura Mountains. · Zhū luó jì

供应商

One who, or that which, provides a service, commodity, or the means for subsistence. · gōng yìng shāng

供电

(uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals. · gōng diàn

供給

To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish. · gōng jǐ

供認

An open declaration of affirmation or admission of knowledge. · gòng rèn

依

Indicates a means of classification or organisation. · yī

依法的

(informal) Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid. [from 20th c.] · yī fǎ de

依赖性

A dependence, especially a strong one. · yī lài xìng

侠客

A knight in a medieval romance who wanders in search of adventure and opportunities to prove his chivalry. · xiá kè

侦探

(figurative, informal) A detective or other person skilled at finding people or clues. · zhēn tàn

侧面

(nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing. · cè miàn

侮辱

(slang) To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour. · wǔ rǔ

侯爵

Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors. · hóu jué

侵占

A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government. · qīn zhàn

侵權

(transitive) To enter by force, usually in order to conquer. · qīn quán

侵略者

The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. · qīn lüè zhě

侵蚀作用

(uncountable) The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face. · qīn shí zuò yòng

便亭

A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand. · biàn tíng

便便

(British, slang) A punch; a blow with the fist. · biàn bian

便利商店

A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of items such as staples, junk food, and drugstore items, and which is open long hours for the convenience of shoppers. · biàn lì shāng diàn

便士

(historical) In the United Kingdom and Ireland and many other countries, a unit of currency worth 1⁄240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d. · biàn shì

便宜

Of good omen; indicating future success. · biàn yí

便服

(uncountable, AU, British, New Zealand) A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform. · biàn fú

便服#穆夫提

(countable, Islam) A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.

便池

A plumbing fixture intended for standing urination, typically by men and boys. · biàn chí

便當

Synonym of bento box (“a partitioned, traditionally lacquered, lunchbox in which a Japanese takeaway lunch is served”). · biàn dāng

便秘

A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces. · biàn mì

俄克拉何马

A state in the central United States, formerly a territory. Capital: Oklahoma City. · é kè lā hé mǎ

俄狄浦斯

(Greek mythology) A son of Laius and Jocasta, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. · é dí pǔ sī

俄罗斯

A transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. Official name: Russian Federation. Capital and largest city: Moscow. It borders the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas. Part of the Soviet Union from 1917 through 1991. · é luó sī

俄羅斯

A transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. Official name: Russian Federation. Capital and largest city: Moscow. It borders the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas. Part of the Soviet Union from 1917 through 1991. · é luó sī

俄羅斯人

(countable) An ethnic Russian; a member of the East Slavic ethnic group which is native to, and constitutes the majority of the population of, Russia. · é luó sī rén

俄耳甫斯

(Greek mythology) A Thracian musician and poet, who failed to retrieve his wife Eurydice from Hades. · é ěr fǔ sī

俄語

Of or pertaining to Russia or Russians. · é yǔ

俄语

Of or pertaining to Russia or Russians. · é yǔ

俚語

Glib and rapid speech, such as from an auctioneer or a sports commentator. · lǐ yǔ

俚语

Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register. · lǐ yǔ

保加利亚

A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Bulgaria. Capital and largest city: Sofia. · Bǎo jiā lì yà

保加利亚人

(countable) A native of Bulgaria. · bǎo jiā lì yà rén

保加利亚的

Relating to Bulgaria, its people, or the Bulgarian language. · bǎo jiā lì yà de

保加利亚语

Relating to Bulgaria, its people, or the Bulgarian language. · bǎo jiā lì yà yǔ

保加利亞語

(uncountable) The official language of Bulgaria. · bǎo jiā lì yà yǔ

保姆

A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians. · bǎo mǔ

保守主义

A political philosophy that advocates traditional values. · bǎo shǒu zhǔ yì

保护

Protection or patronage. · bǎo hù

保护主义

(politics, economics) A system or policy of protecting the domestic producers of a product from foreign competition by imposing tariffs, quotas, duties or other barriers on importations. · bǎo hù zhǔ yì

保护国

(UK, historical) Government by a protector; especially, The Protectorate: government of England, Scotland, and Ireland between 1653 and 1659 under the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell, later his son Richard Cromwell. · bǎo hù guó

保持

(ambitransitive) To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent. · bǎo chí

保温瓶

A vacuum flask; a vessel which keeps its contents hotter or cooler than their environment without the need to modify the pressure, by interposing an evacuated region to provide thermal insulation between the contents and the environment. · bǎo wēn píng

保真度

(archaic) Truth. · bǎo zhēn dù

保罗

In the New Testament, Saul, Apostle to the Gentiles and author of fourteen epistles. · Bǎo luó

保羅

A en given name of biblical origin. · Bǎo luó

保荐

Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted. · bǎo jiàn

保藏

To protect; to keep from harm or injury. · bǎo cáng

保衛

(transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard. · bǎo wèi

保護

(ambitransitive) To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to. · bǎo hù

保证

Something which validates or confirms the authenticity of something; or the process of doing so. · bǎo zhèng

保险柜

A strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe. · bǎo xiǎn guì

保險

(insurance) Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Assurance is used in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited. · bǎo xiǎn

保險絲

(electrical engineering) A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it. · bǎo xiǎn sī

保養

Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service. · bǎo yǎng

保齡球

A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling · bǎo líng qiú

信

(chiefly, literary, or, humorous) A letter, especially one which is formal or issued publicly. · xìn

信仰

Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered. · xìn yǎng

信任

The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee. · xìn rèn

信使

A person who delivers messages. · xìn shǐ

信号

An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something. · xìn hào

信天翁

Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings. · xìn tiān wēng

信封

Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of. [from ca. 1150–1350] · xìn fēng

信度

The quality of being reliable, dependable, or trustworthy. · xìn dù

信徒

A person who believes; especially regarding religion. · xìn tú

信心

Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret. · xìn xīn

信息

Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.] · xìn xī

信息素

(biology) A chemical secreted by an animal, especially an insect, that affects the development or behavior of other members of the same species, functioning often as a means of attracting a member of the opposite sex. · xìn xī sù

信息论

(informatics) Initialism of information technology. · xìn xī lùn

信條

(countable) Something believed. · xìn tiáo

信箱

A collection point for mail intended for onward delivery, a secure box or receptacle for this purpose. · xìn xiāng

修

(transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. · xiū

修剪

(transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive. · xiū jiǎn

修女

A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister. · xiū nǚ

修復

(transitive, North America, construction) To restore or repair (a vehicle, building); to make habitable or usable again. [from 19th c.] · xiū fù

修改

(transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing. · xiū gǎi

修正

(transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from. · xiū zhèng

修正条款

In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits. · xiū zhèng tiáo kuǎn

修理

An understanding, grasp of something. · xiū lǐ

修订

(transitive, rare) To revise or make corrections to a publication. · xiū dìng

修辞

(archaic) Relating to, or used in, debate or argument. · xiū cí

修辞学

The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade. · xiū cí xué

修道会

An order or command. · xiū dào huì

修道院

The dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.] · xiū dào yuàn

俱乐部

(countable) An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation. · jù lè bù

俳句

A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme. · pái jù

俺们

(philosophy) The mind or intellect, reason, both rational and emotional · ǎn men

俾格米

(often, _, capitalized) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature. · bǐ gé mǐ

倉庫

A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions. · cāng kù

倉鼠

In particular, a rodent of the species Mesocricetus auratus (the golden hamster) or of a species of the genera Cricetiscus and Phodopus (the dwarf hamsters), often kept as a pet or used in scientific research. · cāng shǔ

個性

The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind; selfhood; the sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themselves. · gè xìng

倒

(transitive) To discard. · dǎo

倒台

Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor. · dǎo tái

倒扑

A promotional or instructive leaflet inserted into a magazine, newspaper, tape or disk package, etc. · dǎo pū

倒挂金钟

A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers. · dǎo guà jīn zhōng

倒数

The opposite or reverse. · dào shǔ

倒数第二

(UK, in, _, US, _, usually, formal) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc. · dǎo shù dì èr

倖存

(transitive) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive. · xìng cún

候

(transitive) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for. · hòu

候选人

One who applies for something; one who makes a request; a petitioner. · hòu xuǎn rén

借

To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. · jiè

借译

(also, attributive, uncountable) Thin typing paper used together with carbon paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document; (countable) a sheet of such paper. · jiè yì

倡议

A proposal that has been made. · chàng yì

倫敦

The capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England, within Greater London. Situated on the tidal River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000. · Lún dūn

值得

(transitive) To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have. · zhí de

值机

The act of contacting another person in order to keep them informed of one's situation. · zhí jī

倾刻的

Lasting for only a moment. · qīng kè de

假

(workplace) Amount of time expressed as the number of days per year that an employee is entitled to be away from work. · gēi

假发

A false substitute for a person's hair; a toupee or wig. · jiǎ fà

假名

The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji. · jiǎ míng

假如

(music) The seventh note in the C major scale. · jiǎ rú

假小子

(informal) A young woman who behaves in a laddish manner, namely being boisterous and loud and drinking to excess. · jiǎ xiǎo zi

假日

(UK, Ireland) A weekday, often a Monday, on which most businesses are closed, and granted to workers as a national holiday. · jià rì

假期

A day declared free from work by the state or government. · jià qī

假聲

(singing, uncountable) The "false" (singing) voice in any human, usually airy and lacking a purity of vowels; created by using the next highest vocal folds above those used for speech and normal range singing. It is commonly confused with the head voice register. · jiǎ shēng

假設

(ambitransitive, obsolete, only survives in "creeded") To believe; to credit. · jiǎ shè

假设

The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim. · jiǎ shè

假髮

A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying. · jiǎ fà

偎抱

An act of putting arms around someone and bringing the person close to the chest; a hug. · wēi bào

偏執狂

The obsolete name for a psychotic disorder, now called delusional disorder, often (in one of six subtypes) characterized by delusions of persecution and a perceived threat against the individual affected with the disorder, and often associated with false accusations and a general mistrust of others · piān zhí kuáng

偏头痛

(pathology) A severe, disabling headache, usually affecting only one side of the head, and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia and visual disturbances. · piān tóu tòng

偏頗

(figurative) biased; not balanced between points of view · piān pō

偏頭痛

(pathology) A headache affecting one side of the head. · piān tóu tòng

做

(intransitive) To accumulate; to amount to. · zuò

做插图

(figurative) To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison. · zuò chā tú

做菜

(intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot. · zuò cài

做飯

(ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients. · zuò fàn

做饭

(transitive, cooking) To cook with steam. · zuò fàn

停

(intransitive) To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone. · tíng

停住

(transitive, slang) To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime. · tíng zhù

停战

An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time. · tíng zhàn

停戰協定

(countable, military) A formal agreement, especially between nations, to end combat. · tíng zhàn xié dìng

停止

(rail) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom. · tíng zhǐ

停止支付

(transitive) To invalidate or annul something. · tíng zhǐ zhī fù

停車

(transitive) To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place. · tíng chē

停车场

Space in which to park a car or other vehicle, such as a parking lot or curbside parking. · tíng chē chǎng

停顿

A break, especially between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly. · tíng dùn

健康

The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness. [from 11th c.] · jiàn kāng

健身

(especially, weightlifting) A sports facility specialized for lifting weights, cardio machines, and other exercise (culturally differentiated from sense 1). · jiàn shēn

健身房

(formal) A large room or building for indoor sports. · jiàn shēn fáng