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Chinese to English Dictionary (1-5 of 63)

[jiù]
  • 1. move close to
  • 2. take … up
  • 3. accomplish
  • 4. take the opportunity
  • 5. eat … with
  • 6. shortly
  • 7. already
  • 8. as soon as
  • 9. then
  • 10. as much as
  • 11. only
  • 12. already
  • 13. simply
  • 14. exactly
  • 15. even though
  • 16. even if
  • 17. on

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拟物
[nǐwù]
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  • A kind of rhetorical device, which is to describe a person as if he were an animal or a thing, to describe A as if it were B.

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数量级
[shùliànɡjí]
  • The order of magnitude; concept for measuring or estimating the magnitude of a physical quantity. When being represented as an exponent with 10 as the base number, the number of the exponent is the order of magnitude of this physical quantity. For example, the area of Guangdong Zhaoqing Dinghu Mountain nature reserve is 1.14×107 m2, that is, 1.14×10 km2, if counted in m2, its order of magnitude is 7, while if counted in km2 , the order of magnitude is 1.

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是可忍孰不可忍
[shìkěrěn shúbúkěrěn]
  • 1. from "The Analects of Confucius." Often translated as "If he can bear to do this, what may he notbear to do?"
  • 2. If this can be tolerated, then what can be called intolerable?
  • 3. If this can be endured, what else cannot be endured?

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[rú]
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  • 1. comply with
  • 2. be like
  • 3. be as good as
  • 4. as
  • 5. if

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Examples (1-5 of 83)

《诗》云:“战战兢兢,如临深渊,如履薄冰。”
The Songs says:"In fear and trembling, as if approaching a deep abyss, as if walking on thin ice."
如因势利导,则如水之就下,极为自然。
If we guide the matter along its course of development, it will proceed as naturally as water flows downwards.
人员不断更换,就像走马灯似的。
Personnel were shifted about as often as if they were on a running horse lantern (or a merry-go-round). 走马灯
如有舛讹, 请速告知。
If anything happens, please inform us as soon as possible. 舛误
他发表过很多小说, 可谓著作等身了。
He has published many novels, if you stack them up, they are as tall as he is. 等身

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as if
from 毓臻's Vocab List
  • 好像

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