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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

冷淡 [lěngdàn]
  1. 1. adjective cold
  2. 2. verb cold-shoulder
    多炒几个菜,别冷淡了客人。
    Make sure you do enough food – we don't want our guests to feel slighted.

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

冷淡 [lěngdàn]
  1. 1. cheerless; desolate; indifference
  2. 2. cold; indifferent; cool; frosty; unsympathetic; aloof; chilly; remote; distant;lukewarm
    冷淡的态度
    a frigid manner
    对倡议表示冷淡
    show indifference towards a proposal
    反应冷淡
    a cold response
  3. 3. treat coldly; cold-shoulder; slight; distance
    他强打着精神说话,怕冷淡了朋友。
    He forced himself to perk up and make conversation so that his friend wouldn't feel he'd been given the cold shoulder.

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

冷淡 [lěngdàn]
  1. 1. 淡漠;不热情
    待人冷淡
  2. 2. 冷清;不兴旺
    生意冷淡
    市面冷淡
  3. 3. 使受到冷淡的待遇
    不要冷淡了客人。

Examples

冷淡的待遇
cold reception; cold shoulder
反应冷淡
The response was far from warm.
对倡议表示冷淡
show indifference towards a proposal
他强打着精神说话,怕冷淡了朋友。
He forced himself to perk up and make conversation so that his friend wouldn't feel he'd been given the cold shoulder.
现在生意冷淡,饭馆里没有多少吃客。
Business in the restaurant is slow right now, there are only a few customers.
你对他那么冷淡,他自然不会再来了。
Since you were so cold to him, he naturally won't want to come again.
冷淡

Collocations

态度冷淡
an indifferent attitude
反应冷淡
the reaction is cheerless
对人冷淡
to be cheerless to others
格外冷淡
particularly cheerless
冷淡客人
a cheerless guest
冷淡朋友
a cheerless friend
冷淡下去
becoming cold
气氛冷淡
an apathetic atmosphere
生意冷淡
business apathy

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