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"(idiom) poor people" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
升斗小民 shēng dǒu xiǎo mín (idiom) poor people / those who live from hand to mouth
Chinese Pinyin Translation
扶贫济困 扶貧濟困 fú pín jì kùn to help the poor / almsgiving for the needy / to assist poor households or poor regions syn
华沙条约 華沙條約 huá shā tiáo yuē Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the People's Republic of Albania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic, the Romanian People's Repub
华沙友好合作互助条约 華沙友好合作互助條約 Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the People's Republic of Albania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic, the Romanian People's Repub
穷人 窮人 qióng rén poor people / the poor syn
人穷志不穷 人窮志不窮 rén qióng zhì bù qióng (idiom) poor but with great ambitions / poor but principled
贫下中农 貧下中農 pín xià zhōng nóng (category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)
小城镇利贫水和废水综合管理项目 Integrated Pro-poor Water and Wastewater Management in Small Towns / Pro-poor Water and Wastewater Management in Small Towns
除暴安良 chú bào ān liáng to root out the strong and give people peace (idiom) / to rob the rich and give to the poor syn
光脚的不怕穿鞋的 光腳的不怕穿鞋的 guāng jiǎo de bù pà chuān xié de lit. the barefooted people are not afraid of those who wear shoes (idiom) / fig. the poor, who have nothing to lose, do not fear those in power
何不食肉糜 hé bù shí ròu mí lit. "Why don't they eat meat?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝|晋惠帝[Jin4 Hui4 di4] when told that his people didn't have enough rice to eat) / fig. (of people from higher class etc) to be oblivious to other people's plight
贫民 貧民 pín mín poor people syn
富农 富農 fù nóng rich peasant / social class of people farming their own land, intermediate between land-owner class 地主[di4 zhu3] and poor peasant 貧農|贫农[pin2 nong2]
时间穷人 時間窮人 time-poor people
深入人心 shēn rù rén xīn to enter deeply into people's hearts / to have a real impact on the people (idiom)
万众一心 萬眾一心 wàn zhòng yī xīn millions of people all of one mind (idiom) / the people united syn
掩人耳目 yǎn rén ěr mù to fool people (idiom) / to pull the wool over people's eyes syn
杀人如麻 殺人如麻 shā rén rú má lit. to kill people like scything flax (idiom) / fig. to kill people like flies syn
仗势欺人 仗勢欺人 zhàng shì qī rén to take advantage of one's position to bully people (idiom) / to kick people around syn
政通人和 zhèng tōng rén hé efficient government, people at peace (idiom) / all is well with the state and the people syn
官逼民反 guān bī mín fǎn a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom) / a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people syn
民以食为天 民以食為天 mín yǐ shí wéi tiān Food is the God of the people. (idiom) / People view food as the primary need. / Food first, ethical niceties second syn
民脂民膏 mín zhī mín gāo lit. the fat and wealth of the people (idiom) / the nation's hard-won wealth (esp. as an object of unscrupulous exploitation) / the people's blood, sweat and tears syn
率兽食人 率獸食人 shuài shòu shí rén lit. to lead beasts to eat the people (idiom) / fig. tyrannical government oppresses the people
解民倒悬 解民倒懸 jiě mín dào xuán lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius) / to save the people from dire straits
薰莸不同器 薰蕕不同器 xūn yóu bù tóng qì lit. fragrant herbs and foul herbs do not go into the same vessel (idiom) / bad people and good people do not mix
知人善任 zhī rén shàn rèn (idiom) expert at appointing people according to their abilities / to put the right people in the right places
一条绳上的蚂蚱 一條繩上的螞蚱 yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zha lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom) / fig. people who are in it together for better or worse / people who will sink or swim together
不是一家人不进一家门 不是一家人不進一家門 bù shì yī jiā rén bù jìn yī jiā mén people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom) / marriages are predestined / people marry because they share common traits
瘦死的骆驼比马大 瘦死的駱駝比馬大 shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people
一家人不说两家话 一家人不說兩家話 yī jiā rén bù shuō liǎng jiā huà lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise)
杀人如麻 殺人如麻 shā rén - rú má lit. to kill people like scything flax (idiom) / fig. to kill people like flies syn
家徒四壁 jiā tú sì bì lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched syn
锄强扶弱 鋤強扶弱 chú qiáng fú ruò to root out the strong and support the weak (idiom) / to rob the rich and give to the poor syn
安富恤穷 安富恤窮 ān fù xù qióng to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
安富恤贫 安富恤貧 ān fù xù pín to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
家贫如洗 家貧如洗 jiā pín rú xǐ extreme poverty (idiom) / destitute / penniless / poor as church mice
强将手下无弱兵 強將手下無弱兵 qiáng jiàng shǒu xià wú ruò bīng there are no poor soldiers under a good general (idiom)
打富济贫 打富濟貧 dǎ fù jì pín to rob the rich to help the poor (idiom)
扶弱抑强 扶弱抑強 fú ruò yì qiáng to support the weak and restrain the strong (idiom) / robbing the rich to help the poor
穷当益坚 窮當益堅 qióng dāng yì jiān poor but ambitious (idiom) / hard-pressed but determined / the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back syn
蓬户瓮牖 蓬戶甕牖 péng hù wèng yǒu thatched house, broken urn windows (idiom) / poor person's house / humble home syn
蓬门筚户 蓬門篳戶 péng mén bì hù overgrown gate, wicker windows (idiom) / poor person's house / humble home
裒多益寡 póu duō yì guǎ to take from the rich and give to the poor (idiom)
亲疏贵贱 親疏貴賤 qīn shū guì jiàn close and distant, rich and poor (idiom) / everyone / all possible relations
买椟还珠 買櫝還珠 mǎi dú huán zhū to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom) syn
没吃没穿 沒吃沒穿 méi chī méi chuān to be without food or clothing (idiom) / to be very poor
柴门小户 柴門小戶 chái mén xiǎo hù woodcutter's cottage (idiom) / poor person's hovel / fig. my humble house
穷当益坚，老当益壮 窮當益堅，老當益壯 qióng dāng yì jiān , lǎo dāng yì zhuàng poor but ambition, old but vigorous (idiom) / robust and determined to hold one's position despite poverty and old age
蓬门荜户 蓬門蓽戶 péng mén bì hù overgrown gate, wicker windows (idiom) / poor person's house / humble home syn
访贫问苦 訪貧問苦 fǎng pín wèn kǔ to visit the poor and ask about their suffering (idiom)
贫不足耻 貧不足恥 pín bù zú chǐ it is no disgrace to be poor (idiom)
救急不救穷 救急不救窮 jiù jí bù jiù qióng help the starving but not the poor (idiom)
嫌贫爱富 嫌貧愛富 xián pín ài fù to favor the rich and disdain the poor (idiom) / snobbish
穷家薄业 窮家薄業 qióng jiā bó yè lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom) / fig. destitute
花钱受气 花錢受氣 huā qián shòu qì (idiom) to have a bad experience as a customer / to encounter poor service
人家 rén jia other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people") syn
民间 民間 mín jiān among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments
万人 萬人 wàn rén ten thousand people / all the people / everyman
人民法院 rén mín fǎ yuàn people's court (of law) / people's tribunal syn
世人 shì rén people (in general) / people around the world / everyone syn
两会 兩會 liǎng huì National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
大多数人 大多數人 dà duō shù rén most people / the majority of people
民生 mín shēng people's livelihood / people's welfare
有心人 yǒu xīn rén resolute person / person with aspirations / people who feel / people who use their heads syn
口子 kǒu zi hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent syn
民情 mín qíng circumstances of the people / popular sentiment / the mood of the people / popular customs syn
食人 shí rén man-eating (beast) / to eat people / fig. to oppress the people
普通老百姓 pǔ tōng lǎo bǎi xìng common people / average people / hoi polloi
亲民 親民 qīn mín in touch with the people / sensitive to people's needs
良民 liáng mín good people / ordinary people (i.e. not the lowest class) syn
嶙峋 lín xún bony (of people) / craggy / rugged (of terrain) / upright (of people) syn
辈 輩 bèi lifetime / generation / group of people / class / classifier for generations / (literary) classifier for people syn
民生主义 民生主義 mín shēng zhǔ yì principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade)
听见风就是雨 聽見風就是雨 tīng jiàn fēng jiù shì yǔ lit. on hearing wind, to say rain / to agree uncritically with whatever people say / to parrot other people's words / to chime in with others
尊贤爱物 尊賢愛物 zūn xián ài wù to honor the wise and love the people / respecting noble talent while protecting the common people
河洛人 hé luò rén Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
男女老少 nán nǚ lǎo shào men, women, young and old / all kinds of people / people of all ages
萨米人 薩米人 sà mǐ rén the Sami people, indigenous people in northern Scandinavia
蛮子 蠻子 mán zi barbarian / slave servant / (old) contemptuous term for people from southern China (used by northern Chinese people)
认人 認人 rèn rén to recognize people (of babies) / to be able to tell people apart
鹤佬人 鶴佬人 hè lǎo rén Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
森林居民 sēn lín jū mín forest people / forest-dwelling people
民间和平进程 people-to-people peace process
民间外交 民間外交 people-to-people diplomacy
人与人的接触 人與人的接觸 people-to-people
民间社会支持巴勒斯坦人民国际会议 民間社會支持巴勒斯坦人民國際會議 United Nations International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People / International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People
欧洲委员会残疾行动计划 歐洲委員會殘疾行動計劃 Council of Europe Action Plan to promote the rights and full participation of people with disabilities in society: improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in Europe 2006-2015 / Council of Europe Disability Action Plan
印度尼西亚人民协商会议 印度尼西亞人民協商會議 Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly / People's Consultative Assembly
联合国民间社会支援巴勒斯坦人民会议 聯合國民間社會支援巴勒斯坦人民會議 United Nations Meeting of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People / Meeting of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People
埃塞俄比亚人民革命民主阵线 埃塞俄比亞人民革命民主陣線 Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front / Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
平头百姓 平頭百姓 píng tóu bǎi xìng common people / ordinary people
本省人 běn shěng rén people of this province / (in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants
住海边 住海邊 zhù hǎi biān (fig.) (slang) to stick one's nose in other people's affairs (i.e. the scope of other people's business that one concerns oneself with is as wide as an ocean vista)
群嘲 qún cháo (neologism c. 2011) to deride a group of people / (of a group of people) to deride (sb)
摇人 搖人 yáo rén to call people over / to rally people together
者流 zhě liú (after a personal attribute) people who have that attribute / people of that type
垃圾 lā jī trash / refuse / garbage / (coll.) of poor quality / Taiwan pr. [le4 se4] syn
恶劣 惡劣 è liè vile / nasty / of very poor quality syn
扶贫 扶貧 fú pín assistance to the poor / poverty alleviation 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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