三七开 三七開 sān qī kāi ratio seventy to thirty / thirty percent failure, seventy percent success 三七开定论 三七開定論 sān qī kāi dìng lùn thirty percent failure, seventy percent success, the official PRC verdict on Mao Zedong 天才出自勤奋 天才出自勤奮 tiān cái chū zì qín fèn genius comes from hard effort / Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration (Thomas Edison) 百强 百強 bǎi qiáng top 100 (e.g. top 100 towns) 公亩 公畝 gōng mǔ are (1 are = 1⁄100 hectare, or 100 m²) 赢利 贏利 yíng lì gain / profit / to make a profit syn 营利 營利 yíng lì for profit / to seek profit syn 唯利是图 唯利是圖 wéi lì shì tú (idiom) to be bent solely on profit / to put profit before everything else syn 损公肥私 損公肥私 sǔn gōng féi sī to damage the public interest for personal profit (idiom) / personal profit at public expense / venal and selfish behavior syn 殖利 zhí lì to generate a profit / profit / yield 非牟利公司 fēi móu lì gōng sī non-profit corporation / not-for-profit corporation 非营利公司 非營利公司 fēi yíng lì gōng sī non-profit corporation / not-for-profit corporation 之一 zhī yī one of (sth) / one out of a multitude / one (third, quarter, percent etc) syn 十分 shí fēn very / completely / utterly / extremely / absolutely / hundred percent / to divide into ten equal parts syn 十足 shí zú ample / complete / hundred percent / a pure shade (of some color) syn 百分之 bǎi fēn zhī percent 百分百 bǎi fēn bǎi one hundred percent / totally (effective) 八成 bā chéng eighty percent / most probably / most likely syn 百分之百 bǎi fēn zhī bǎi a hundred percent / out and out / absolutely syn 过半 過半 guò bàn over fifty percent / more than half syn 九成 jiǔ chéng nine-tenths / ninety percent 不折不扣 bù zhé bù kòu a hundred percent / to the letter / out-and-out syn 百分 bǎi fēn percent / percentage 十二分 shí èr fēn exceedingly / hundred percent / everything and more syn 百分率 bǎi fēn lǜ percentage / percent 折半 zhé bàn to reduce by fifty percent / half-price syn 趴 pā to lie on one's stomach / to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc) / (Tw) percent syn 滴水不羼 dī shuǐ bù chàn not diluted by one drop / hundred percent 百分之九十 bǎi fēn zhī jiǔ shí 90 percent 百分之十 bǎi fēn zhī shí ten percent 百分之五十 bǎi fēn zhī wǔ shí fifty percent 百分之一百 bǎi fēn zhī yī bǎi one hundred percent / totally (effective) 百分号 百分號 bǎi fēn hào percent sign % (punct.) 超基性岩 chāo jī xìng yán ultrabasic rock (geology, rock containing less than 45 percent silicates) 巴仙 bā xiān percent (loanword) 巴先 bā xiān percent (loanword) % pā percent (Tw) 钞票 鈔票 chāo piào paper money / a bill (e.g. 100 yuan) / CL:張|张[zhang1],紮|扎[za1] syn 纯棉 純棉 chún mián pure cotton / 100% cotton 汉书 漢書 hàn shū History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Ban Gu 班固[Ban1 Gu4] in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls 翻一番 fān yī fān to increase by 100% / to double 恺撒 愷撒 kǎi sǎ Caesar (name) / Gaius Julius Caesar 100-42 BC / by extension, emperor, Kaiser, Tsar 排名榜 pái míng bǎng ranking / ordered list / top 20 / roll of honor / to come nth out of 100 syn 合 gě 100 ml / one-tenth of a peck / measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗 syn 十日谈 十日談 shí rì tán Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘[Bo2 jia1 qiu1] 宋书 宋書 sòng shū History of Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4] or Liu Song 劉宋|刘宋[Liu2 Song4], sixth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled by Shen Yue 沈約|沈约[Shen3 Yue1] in 488 during Liang of the Southern Dynasties 南朝梁[Nan2 chao2 Liang2], 100 scrolls / (not to be confused with 宋史[Song4 shi3]) 五十步笑百步 wǔ shí bù xiào bǎi bù lit. the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom) / fig. the pot calls the kettle black syn 担 擔 dàn picul (100 catties, 50 kg) / two buckets full / carrying pole and its load / classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole syn 亿 億 yì 100 million syn 吊 弔 diào a string of 100 cash (arch.) / to lament / to condole with / variant of 吊[diao4] syn 链 鏈 liàn chain / cable (unit of length: 100 fathoms, about 185 m) / chain (unit of length: 66 feet, about 20 m) / to chain / to enchain syn 顷 頃 qǐng unit of area equal to 100 畝|亩[mu3] or 6.67 hectares / a short while / a little while ago / circa. (for approximate dates) syn 酇 zàn group of 100 families / place name 酂 酇 zàn group of 100 families / place name 百米赛跑 百米賽跑 bǎi mǐ sài pǎo 100-meter dash 魏伯阳 魏伯陽 wèi bó yáng Wei Boyang (c. 100-170), Chinese author and alchemist 前汉书 前漢書 qián hàn shū History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Ban Gu 班固[Ban1 Gu4] in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls 北史 běi shǐ History of the Northern Dynasties, fifteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled by Li Yanshou 李延壽|李延寿[Li3 Yan2 shou4] in 659 during Tang Dynasty, 100 scrolls 十六国春秋 十六國春秋 shí liù guó chūn qiū history of the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 by Cui Hong 崔鴻|崔鸿, written towards the end of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏, 100 scrolls 市顷 市頃 shì qǐng unit of area equal to 100 畝|亩[mu3] or 6.67 hectares 白香词谱 白香詞譜 bái xiāng cí pǔ Anthology of ci poems tunes (1795), edited by Xu Menglan 舒夢蘭|舒梦兰, with 100 accessible poems from Tang through to Qing times 金融时报指数 金融時報指數 jīn róng shí bào zhǐ shù Financial Times stock exchange index (FTSE 100 or footsie) 阿耳戈斯 ā ěr gē sī Argus / in Greek mythology, a monster with 100 eyes, transformed into peacock's tail 地地道道 dì dì dào dào thoroughgoing / authentic / 100% / to the core syn 工作人员细则100号编 工作人員細則100號編 100 Series of the Staff Rules 公担 公擔 gōng dàn quintal (100 kg) 富时 富時 fù shí FTSE (British provider of stock exchange indices such as FTSE 100) 假一赔十 假一賠十 jiǎ yī péi shí lit. if one is fake, I shall compensate you for ten of them / fig. (of goods) 100% genuine 市担 市擔 shì dàn Chinese unit of weight equal to 100 jin (or 50 kg) 恺撒 愷撒 kǎi sā Caesar (name) / Gaius Julius Caesar 100-42 BC / by extension, emperor, Kaiser, Tsar 百兆 bǎi zhào (computer networking) 100 megabits per second / 100Base-T 成果 chéng guǒ result / achievement / gain / profit / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 好处 好處 hǎo chu benefit / advantage / merit / gain / profit / also pr. [hao3chu4] syn 收益 shōu yì earnings / profit syn 收获 收穫 shōu huò to harvest / to reap / to gain / crop / harvest / profit / gain / bonus / reward syn 盈利 yíng lì profit / gain / to make profits syn 受益 shòu yì to benefit from / profit syn 获利 獲利 huò lì profit / to obtain benefits / benefits obtained syn 净利润 淨利潤 jìng lì rùn net profit syn 赚取 賺取 zhuàn qǔ to make a profit / to earn a packet syn 利润率 利潤率 lì rùn lǜ profit margin 名利 míng lì fame and profit syn 盈余 盈餘 yíng yú surplus / profit syn 牟利 móu lì to gain profit (by underhand means) / to exploit / exploitation syn 损益 損益 sǔn yì profit and loss / increase and decrease syn 获益 獲益 huò yì to profit from sth / to get benefit 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) 出息 chū xi future prospects / profit / to mature / to grow up syn 出息 chū xī to yield interest, profit etc / to exhale (Buddhism) syn 毛利 máo lì gross profit 盈亏 盈虧 yíng kuī profit and loss / waxing and waning syn 油水 yóu shuǐ grease / profit / ill-gotten gains 热钱 熱錢 rè qián hot money, money flowing from one currency to another in the hope of quick profit 倒卖 倒賣 dǎo mài to resell at a profit / to speculate syn 断送 斷送 duàn sòng to forfeit (future profit, one's life etc) / ruined syn 牟取 móu qǔ to gain profit (by underhand means) / to exploit / see also 謀取|谋取[mou2 qu3] syn 利己 lì jǐ personal profit / to benefit oneself syn 集思广益 集思廣益 jí sī guǎng yì collecting opinions is of wide benefit (idiom) / to pool wisdom for mutual benefit / to profit from widespread suggestions 非营利 非營利 fēi yíng lì nonprofit / not for profit 