"(fig.) running dogs" Chinese-English Dictionary

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鹰犬 鷹犬 yīng quǎn hawks and hounds / (fig.) running dogs / hired thugs syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
赛跑 賽跑 sài pǎo race (running) / to race (running)
日行灯 日行燈 daytime running lights / daytime running lamps
落水 luò shuǐ to fall into water / to sink / overboard / fig. to degenerate / to sink (into depravity) / to go to the dogs syn
鸡犬不宁 雞犬不寧 jī quǎn bù níng lit. not even the chickens and dogs are left undisturbed (idiom) / fig. great commotion / pandemonium syn
蜀犬吠日 shǔ quǎn fèi rì lit. Sichuan dogs bark at the sun (idiom) / fig. a simpleton will marvel at even the most common things / alludes to the Sichuan foggy weather where it's uncommon to see a sunny day syn
鸡犬升天 雞犬升天 jī quǎn shēng tiān lit. poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom) / fig. to ride on sb else's success / Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too / Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it syn
一人得道,鸡犬升天 一人得道,雞犬升天 yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom) / fig. to ride on sb else's success / Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too / Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
鸟不生蛋,狗不拉屎 鳥不生蛋,狗不拉屎 niǎo bù shēng dàn , gǒu bù lā shǐ lit. (a place where) birds don't lay eggs and dogs don't defecate (idiom) / fig. god-forsaken / remote and desolate
鸡飞狗跳 雞飛狗跳 jī fēi gǒu tiào lit. chickens flying and dogs jumping (idiom) / fig. in chaos / in disarray
一人得道,鸡犬升天 一人得道,雞犬升天 yī rén - dé dào , jī quǎn - shēng tiān lit. when a person attains enlightenment and immortality, even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. when somebody attains a position of power and influence, their relatives and friends also benefit
鸡犬不留 雞犬不留 jī quǎn - bù liú lit. not even chickens and dogs are spared (idiom) / fig. mass slaughter syn
鸡犬升天 雞犬升天 jī quǎn - shēng tiān lit. (when a person attains enlightenment and immortality), even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. (when somebody attains a position of power and influence), their relatives and friends also benefit / (2nd half of the saying 一人得道,雞犬升天|一人得道,鸡犬升天[yi1ren2-de2dao4, ji1quan3-sheng1tian1]) syn
团团转 團團轉 tuán tuán zhuàn to go round and round / running around in circles / fig. frantically busy syn
走狗 zǒu gǒu hunting dog / hound / (fig.) running dog / lackey syn
完了 wán le to be finished / to be done for / ruined / gone to the dogs / oh no syn
饲养员 飼養員 sì yǎng yuán zookeeper / stockman / breeder (of livestock, dogs or poultry etc) syn
狐群狗党 狐群狗黨 hú qún gǒu dǎng a skulk of foxes, a pack of dogs (idiom) / a gang of rogues syn
qìn to vomit (of dogs and cats) / to rail against / to talk nonsense syn
yín snarling of dogs
事事拗违 事事拗違 shì shì ào wéi everything has gone to the dogs (idiom)
吽牙 ōu yá sound of dogs fighting, also written 吽呀[ou1 ya2]
媒合 méi hé to match up (employers and jobseekers, men and women seeking a partner, blind people and guide dogs etc)
良心喂狗 liáng xīn wèi gǒu to have fed one's conscience to the dogs (idiom) / devoid of conscience
吽牙 óu yá (onom.) the barking of dogs fighting
掐架 qiā jià (of dogs, roosters etc) to fight / to tussle / (of people) to have an altercation with sb (physical or verbal)
累计 累計 lěi jì to calculate the running total / cumulative / the total / in total syn
流水 liú shuǐ running water / (business) turnover syn
解说 解說 jiě shuō to explain (verbally) / to give a running commentary syn
挂机 掛機 guà jī to hang up (a phone) / to leave a computer etc running (idling, downloading, or playing a game in one's stead etc)
营运 營運 yíng yùn running / operation (of airport, bus service, business etc)
自来水 自來水 zì lái shuǐ running water / tap water
一连 一連 yī lián in a row / in succession / running syn
长跑 長跑 cháng pǎo long-distance running
连日 連日 lián rì day after day / for several days running syn
续续 續續 xù xù continuous / on and on / running
对开 對開 duì kāi running in opposite direction (buses, trains, ferries etc)
起跑 qǐ pǎo to start running / the start of a race syn
行书 行書 xíng shū running script / semicursive script (Chinese calligraphic style)
跑步机 跑步機 pǎo bù jī treadmill / running machine
运行状况 運行狀況 yùn xíng zhuàng kuàng operational state / running state
治军 治軍 zhì jūn running of armed forces / military management / to govern armed forces / to direct troops
通水 tōng shuǐ to have running water (in a house etc)
跑鞋 pǎo xié running shoes syn
碾过 碾過 niǎn guò to crush sth by running over it
河西走廊 hé xī zǒu láng Hexi Corridor (or Gansu Corridor), a string of oases running the length of Gansu, forming part of the Northern Silk Road
停航 tíng háng to stop running (of flight of shipping service) / to suspend service (flight, sailing) / to interrupt schedule
流弊 liú bì malpractice / long-running abuse syn
跑垒 跑壘 pǎo lěi running between bases (in baseball)
gèn extending all the way across / running all the way through
zhòu crupper (harness strap running over a horse's hindquarters and under its tail)
健步如飞 健步如飛 jiàn bù rú fēi running as fast as flying syn
越野赛跑 越野賽跑 yuè yě sài pǎo cross-country running
连镳并轸 連鑣並軫 lián biāo bìng zhěn lit. reins together and carriages level (idiom) / keeping exactly abreast of one another / running neck and neck
哼哧 hēng chī to puff hard (e.g. after running) syn
枪版 槍版 qiāng bǎn amateur pirated DVD, made e.g. by shooting a running movie
竞选副手 競選副手 jìng xuǎn fù shǒu election assistant / running mate
竞选搭档 競選搭檔 jìng xuǎn dā dàng election partner / running mate
誙誙 kēng kēng (arch.) rushing / running competitively
越野跑 yuè yě pǎo cross country running
运行方式 運行方式 yùn xíng fāng shì operating method / running mode
飞针走线 飛針走線 fēi zhēn zǒu xiàn flying needle and running seam (idiom) / skillful needlework syn
活套 huó tào noose / running knot
移动平均数 移動平均數 moving average / running average / rolling average / sliding average / overlapping mean
重迭平均数 重叠平均數 moving average / running average / rolling average / sliding average / overlapping mean
自由犬 free-running dog
自由走动的嗅雷犬 自由走動的嗅雷犬 free-running dog
跑法 pǎo fǎ running style / racing technique
事业线 事業線 shì yè xiàn (palmistry) fate line / career prospects line (running vertically up the palm to the base of the middle finger) / (slang) cleavage
勤俭持家 勤儉持家 qín jiǎn chí jiā hardworking and thrifty in running one's household syn
捷兔 jié tù Hash House Harriers (international running club)
配速 pèi sù (loanword) pace (running)
停驶 停駛 tíng shǐ (of trains, buses or ferries etc) to stop running (temporarily or permanently)
开花 開花 kāi huā to bloom / to blossom / to flower / (fig.) to burst / to split open / (fig.) to burst with joy / (fig.) to spring up everywhere / to flourish syn
热腾腾 熱騰騰 rè téng téng steaming hot / (fig.) bustling / hectic / (fig.) excited / stirred up / (fig.) created only a short time before / freshly minted / hot off the press / (coll.) also pr. [re4 teng1 teng1] syn
鬼扯脚 鬼扯腳 guǐ chě jiǎo lit. ghost pulls your leg / involuntary tug of muscles / fig. very unlucky / fig. argumentative / fig. can't help doing it
外溢 wài yì (of liquid) to spill out / to overflow / (of gas) to leak out / (fig.) to spill over / to spread (to new areas) / (fig.) (of wealth etc) to drain / to flow outward (esp. overseas) / (fig.) (of talent) to show / to be revealed
目光 mù guāng gaze / (fig.) attention / expression in one's eyes / look / (lit. and fig.) sight / vision syn
味道 wèi dao flavor / taste / (fig.) feeling (of ...) / sense (of ...) / hint (of ...) / (fig.) interest / delight / (dialect) smell / odor syn
塑造 sù zào to model / to mold / (fig.) to create (a character, a market, an image etc) / (fig.) (literature) to portray (in words) syn
规矩 規矩 guī ju lit. compass and set square / fig. established standard / rule / customs / practices / fig. upright and honest / well-behaved syn
发烧 發燒 fā shāo to have a high temperature (from illness) / to have a fever / (fig.) to be fascinated with / to obsess over / (fig.) flourishing / thriving / popular syn
挂钩 掛鉤 guà gōu to couple / to link / to hook together / (fig.) (preceded by 與|与[yu3] + {entity}) to establish contact (with {entity}) / (Tw) to collude (with {entity}) / (fig.) to link (marketing efforts with production etc) / to peg (welfare payments to inflation etc) / to tie (remuneration to performance etc) / hook (on which to hang sth) / latch hook / coupling syn
架空 jià kōng to build (a hut etc) on stilts / to install (power lines etc) overhead / (fig.) unfounded / impractical / (fig.) to make sb a mere figurehead syn
出轨 出軌 chū guǐ to be derailed / to go off the rails / (fig.) to overstep the bounds / (fig.) to have an extramarital affair
鱼肉 魚肉 yú ròu flesh of fish / fish and meat / (fig.) victims of oppression / (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up) syn
封顶 封頂 fēng dǐng to put a roof (on a building) / to cap the roof (finishing a building project) / fig. to put a ceiling (on spending, prize, ambition etc) / to top off / fig. to reach the highest point (of growth, profit, interest rates) / to stop growing (of plant bud or branch)
中招 zhòng zhāo (martial arts) to get hit / to get taken down / (fig.) to get infected (disease or computer virus) / (fig.) to fall for sb's trap / to be taken in
小白兔 xiǎo bái tù small white rabbit / (fig.) innocent and naive person / (fig.) (slang) breast
出笼 出籠 chū lóng (of food) to be taken out of the steamer / (fig.) (often used with 紛紛|纷纷[fen1 fen1]) (of products, information etc) to appear / to emerge / to come out / (fig.) to dump / to inundate the market
松柏 sōng bǎi pine and cypress / fig. chaste and undefiled / fig. tomb syn
搅和 攪和 jiǎo huo to mix / to blend / (fig.) to spoil / to mess up things / (fig.) to run around with (sb) / to get involved with / to mix (with other people) syn
脱胎 脫胎 tuō tāi to be born / (fig.) to develop out of sth else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc) / (fig.) to shed one's body (to be reborn) / bodiless (e.g. lacquerware)
走后门 走後門 zǒu hòu mén (lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings / to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex syn
瞻前顾后 瞻前顧後 zhān qián gù hòu lit. to look forward and back (idiom) / fig. to consider carefully / to weigh the pros and cons / fig. to be overcautious and indecisive syn
遮羞布 zhē xiū bù loincloth / (fig.) fig leaf / CL:塊|块[kuai4] syn
矮化 ǎi huà (plant pathology) to become stunted / (horticulture) to dwarf / to reduce in size (by pruning, breeding etc) / (fig.) to diminish the status of / to disparage / (fig.) to downplay
熔断 熔斷 róng duàn (of fuse wire) to melt / to blow / (fig.) to halt stock trading / (fig.) to suspend an airline from operating flights on a given route (as a penalty, e.g. for bringing in more than a specified number of passengers who test positive for COVID) syn
浊流 濁流 zhuó liú turbid flow / muddy waters / fig. a contemptible person / fig. corrupt or disgraceful social trends syn
雏儿 雛兒 chú ér newly hatched bird / fig. inexperienced person / fig. chick (slighting term for young woman) / bimbo syn
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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