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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

[shēng]
  1. 1. verb [生育] give birth to
    孩子
    have a baby
  2. 2. verb [长] grow
    take root
  3. 3. verb [活] live
    life and death
  4. 4. verb [患] get
    get ill
  5. 5. verb [点] light
    light a fire
  6. 6. noun [生命] life
    eke out a living
  7. 7. noun [生平] life
    this life
  8. 8. noun [学生] student
    new student
    小学
    primary school pupil (英)
  9. 9. noun [学生] elementary school student (美)
  10. 10. adjective [活的] living
    living things
  11. 11. adjective [未熟的] unripe
    苹果
    unripe apples
  12. 12. adjective [未煮的] raw
    鱼片
    slices of raw fish
  13. 13. adjective [未加工的] crude
    crude iron
  14. 14. adjective [生疏] unfamiliar
    stranger
  15. 15. adjective [生硬] stiff
    这个句子是凑的。
    This sentence is awkwardly put together.
  16. 16. adverb very
    very painful

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

[shēng]
  1. 1. verb give birth to; bear
    孩子
    give birth to a child
  2. 2. verb be born; come into existence
    下来不多日子,她妈就死了。
    Her mother died soon after she was born.
  3. 3. verb grow
    sprout
  4. 4. verb be afflicted with; get; have
    疖子
    get boils
  5. 5. verb light (a fire)
    炉子
    light a stove
  6. 6. noun life; living
    seek a livelihood; make a living
  7. 7. noun pupil; student
    留级
    a pupil who is repeating the year's work
  8. 8. noun intellectual; scholar
    intellectual; scholar
  9. 9. noun male role (one of the four main roles in traditional opera)
  10. 10. noun noun suffix, used in names of occupations or stations of persons
    doctor
  11. 11. adjective alive; living
    龙活虎
    doughty as a dragon and lively as a tiger—brimming (or bursting) with energy; full of vim and vigour
  12. 12. adjective unripe; green
    的苹果
    a green apple
    这些桃子还是的。
    The peaches are not ripe yet.
  13. 13. adjective raw; uncooked
    raw meat
    黄瓜可以吃。
    Cucumbers can be eaten raw.
  14. 14. adjective unprocessed; unrefined; crude
    石膏
    plaster stone
  15. 15. adjective unfamiliar; unacquainted; strange
    刚到这里,工作还很
    I've only just come here. I'm still not familiar with the work.
  16. 16. adjective stiff; mechanical
    mechanically put together (disconnected words and phrases); arbitrarily dish up (unrelated facts)
  17. 17. adverb (used before certain words indicating feeling or perception) very; much
    very painful

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

[shēng]
  1. 1. 植物长出来;泛指物体长出
    这块地只野草,不长庄稼
    蝌蚪已经了脚
    长。
  2. 2.
    孩子
  3. 3.
    于北京
    1978年
  4. 4. 古代指有学问有道德的人;也是读书人的通称
  5. 5. ;学习的人
    研究
  6. 6. 传统戏曲里的一个行当,扮演男子,包括小、老、武等。
  7. 7. 指从事某些工作的人
    阴阳
  8. 8. ;发
    熟能
    财。
  9. 9. 点燃
    炉子。
  10. 10. 活着;
    入死
  11. 11.
    之年
    取义
  12. 12. 命力的;活的
    龙活虎
    猪。
  13. 13. 存的过程;一辈子
    前半
  14. 14. 维持存的手段
    教书为
  15. 15. (食物)没有做熟的;(果实)没有成熟的
    西瓜还着呢,不能摘。
  16. 16. 没有经过加工、锻制或训练的
    石灰
    荒地
    马驹。
  17. 17. 不熟悉
    地不熟
  18. 18. 不熟悉的人
  19. 19. 硬;勉强
    搬硬套
    拉硬拽
    造词语。
  20. 20. 硬是
    好好的一对,给拆散了。
  21. 21. 表示程度深(只用在某些表示感情或感觉的词的前面)
    怕别人不知道
    肩膀压得疼。
  22. 22. ""作左偏旁时,最后一画横要改写成提,如"甥"。

Examples

不知何故缺席。
The reason for the student's absence remains unknown.
他们一计不成,又一计。
Their first ruse having failed, they tried another.
看我的脸面,不要他的气了。
For my sake, don't get angry with him.
那孩子得眉清目秀,十分俊雅。
The boy was remarkably handsome, with finely chiselled features.
宁可站着死,绝不跪着
would rather die on one's feet than live on one's knees
障碍性贫血
aplastic anaemia
这些桃子还是的。
The peaches are not ripe yet.
不要造谁也不懂的词语。
Do not coin words and expressions that nobody can understand.
这位老教授态度严肃,令人望而畏。
The old professor seemed stern and forbidding.

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