国际葡语日 國際葡語日 International Day of the Portuguese Language 语言誓约 語言誓約 yǔ yán shì yuē language pledge (to speak only the target language in a language school) 葡萄牙语 葡萄牙語 pú táo yá yǔ Portuguese (language) 葡萄牙文 pú táo yá wén Portuguese (language) 葡萄牙语为官方语言的非洲国家 African countries using Portuguese as an official language 葡萄牙文股 Portuguese Language Unit 葡萄语 葡萄語 pú táo yǔ Portuguese (language) 葡文 pú wén Portuguese (language) 葡语 葡語 pú yǔ Portuguese (language) 日益 rì yì day by day / more and more / increasingly / more and more with each passing day syn 日趋 日趨 rì qū (increasing) day by day / (more critical) with every passing day / gradually syn 日渐 日漸 rì jiàn to progress (or increase, change etc) day by day / more (or better etc) with each passing day syn 光棍节 光棍節 guāng gùn jié Singles' Day (November 11), originally a day of activities for single people, but now also the world's biggest annual retail sales day 江河日下 jiāng hé rì xià rivers pour away by the day (idiom) / going from bad to worse / deteriorating day by day syn 黄金週 黃金週 Golden Week / refers to three 7-day holiday periods at New Year 春節|春节, Labor day 勞動節|劳动节, National day 國慶|国庆 / also written 黃金周|黄 节礼日 節禮日 jié lǐ rì Boxing Day, holiday on 26th December (the day after Christmas Day) in some countries 口语 口語 kǒu yǔ colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip / CL:門|门[men2] 普通话 普通話 pǔ tōng huà Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech syn 会话 會話 huì huà (language learning) conversation / dialog / to converse (in a non-native language) / (computing) session / CL:個|个[ge4],次[ci4] syn 母语 母語 mǔ yǔ native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language 粗口 cū kǒu swear words / obscene language / foul language 粗话 粗話 cū huà vulgar language / coarse language syn 藏文 zàng wén Tibetan script / Tibetan written language / Tibetan language 文饰 文飾 wén shì to polish a text / rhetoric / ornate language / to use florid language to conceal errors / to gloss over syn 语料 語料 yǔ liào (linguistics) language material / language data 北京语言学院 北京語言學院 běi jīng yǔ yán xué yuàn Beijing Language Institute / former name of 北京語言大學|北京语言大学[Bei3 jing1 Yu3 yan2 Da4 xue2] Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) 电脑语言 電腦語言 diàn nǎo yǔ yán programming language / computer language 人造语言 人造語言 rén zào yǔ yán artificial language / constructed language / conlang 祖语 祖語 zǔ yǔ proto-language / parent language (linguistics) 阿富汗语 阿富汗語 ā fù hàn yǔ Afghan (language) / Pashto language 语文资格考试 Language Proficiency Examination / Language Proficiency Exam 国家汉办 國家漢辦 guó jiā hàn bàn Office of Chinese Language Council International (known colloquially as "Hanban"), an organ of the PRC government which develops Chinese language and culture teaching resources worldwide, and has established Confucius Institutes 孔子學院|孔子学院[Kong3 zi3 Xue2 yuan4] internationally / abbr. to 漢辦|汉办[Han4 ban4] 西语 西語 xī yǔ western language / Spanish (language) 台山话 台山話 tái shān huà Taishanese, a language of the Yue language group 粵語|粤语[Yue4 yu3] spoken in Jiangmen 江門|江门[Jiang1 men2] and in the Chinatowns of North America 空耳 kōng ěr to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi") 葡萄牙人 pú táo yá rén Portuguese (person) 麦哲伦 麥哲倫 mài zhé lún Magellan (1480-1521), Portuguese explorer 石斑鱼 石斑魚 shí bān yú grouper (Portuguese: garoupa) / also called 鮨 / Epinephelinae (subfamily of Serranidae, fish family including grouper) 鮨 qí sushi / grouper (Portuguese: garoupa) / Epinephelus septemfasciatus 埃斯库多 埃斯庫多 āi sī kù duō escudo (Spanish and Portuguese: shield), former currency of Portugal and other countries 罗纳尔多 羅納爾多 luó nà ěr duō Ronaldo (name) / Cristiano Ronaldo (1985-), Portuguese soccer player 葡萄牙的欧元硬币 葡萄牙的歐元硬幣 pú tao yá de ōu yuán yìng bì Portuguese 桑帕约 桑帕約 sāng pà yuē Sampaio (name) / Jorge Sampaio (1939-), Portuguese lawyer and politician, president of Portugal 1996-2006 / Sampaio, town in Brazil 佛朗机 佛朗機 fó lǎng jī Portuguese (Ming era loanword) 巴罗佐 巴羅佐 bā luó zuǒ José Manuel Durão Barroso (1956-), Portuguese politician, prime minister of Portugal 2002-04, president of EU Commission from 2004-2014 葡萄牙语国家共同体 葡萄牙語國家共同體 Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries 葡语国家青年事务部长会议 Conference of Youth Ministers of the Portuguese-Speaking Countries 葡语国家共同体打击国际恐怖主义宣言 Declaration of the Community of Portuguese-speaking countries on the fight against international terrorism 关于葡萄牙统治领土的宣言 關於葡萄牙統治領土的宣言 Declaration on Territories under Portuguese Domination 支持葡属殖民地人民国际会议 支持葡屬殖民地人民國際會議 International Conference in Support of the Peoples of Portuguese Colonies 葡语国家外交和对外关系部长会议 葡語國家外交和對外關系部長會議 Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and External Relations of the Portuguese-Speaking Countries 美丽岛 美麗島 měi lì dǎo Formosa (from Ilha Formosa, "Beautiful Isle", the name given to Taiwan Island by passing Portuguese mariners in 1544) C罗 C羅 C luó nickname of Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo 葡挞 葡撻 pú tà Portuguese-style egg tart (pastel de nata) 僧帽水母 sēng mào shuǐ mǔ (zoology) Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis) 葡式 pú shì Portuguese-style 阿拉伯文日 Arabic Language Day 俄文日 é wén rì Russian Language Day 法文日 fǎ wén rì French Language Day 中文日 Chinese Language Day 西班牙文日 xī bān yá wén rì Spanish Language Day 英文日 yīng wén rì English Language Day 国际母语日 國際母語日 International Mother Language Day 经常 經常 jīng cháng frequently / constantly / regularly / often / day-to-day / everyday / daily syn 那天 nà tiān that day / the other day 日常 rì cháng day-to-day / daily / everyday syn 白天 bái tiān daytime / during the day / day / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 整天 zhěng tiān all day long / whole day syn 当日 當日 dàng rì that very day / the same day syn 初一 chū yī first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school syn 日月 rì yuè the sun and moon / day and month / every day and every month / season / life and livelihood syn 初二 chū èr 2nd year in junior middle school / 2nd day of a lunar month / 2nd day of lunar New Year 纪念日 紀念日 jì niàn rì day of commemoration / memorial day syn 改天 gǎi tiān another day / some other time / to find another day (for appointment etc) / to take a rain check syn 一天到晚 yī tiān dào wǎn all day long / the whole day syn 整日 zhěng rì all day long / the whole day syn 成日 chéng rì all day long / the whole day / the whole time syn 连日 連日 lián rì day after day / for several days running syn 劳动节 勞動節 láo dòng jié International Labor Day (May Day) syn 艳阳天 艷陽天 yàn yáng tiān bright sunny day / blazing hot day 逐日 zhú rì day-by-day / daily / on a daily basis syn 佳期 jiā qī wedding day / day of tryst syn 吉日 jí rì propitious day / lucky day syn 青年节 青年節 qīng nián jié Youth Day (May 4th), PRC national holiday for young people aged 14 to 28, who get half a day off 改日 gǎi rì another day / some other day syn 日臻 rì zhēn to reach day after day for 日 rì sun / day / date, day of the month syn 植树节 植樹節 zhí shù jié Arbor Day (March 12th), also known as National Tree Planting Day 全民義務植樹日|全民义务植树日[Quan2 min2 Yi4 wu4 Zhi2 shu4 ri4] 国际劳动节 國際勞動節 guó jì láo dòng jié May Day / International Labor Day (May 1) 流水账 流水賬 liú shuǐ zhàng day-to-day account / current account 七夕节 七夕節 qī xī jié Qixi Festival or Double Seven Festival on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month / girls' festival / Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女[niu2 lang3 zhi1 nu:3] are allowed their annual meeting 大后天 大後天 dà hòu tiān three days from now / day after day after tomorrow 日复一日 日復一日 rì fù yī rì day after day 念日 niàn rì memorial day / commemoration day 光明节 光明節 guāng míng jié Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar) / also called 哈努卡節|哈努卡节 and simply 哈努卡 全民义务植树日 全民義務植樹日 quán mín yì wù zhí shù rì National Tree Planting Day (March 12th), as known as Arbor Day 植樹節|植树节[Zhi2 shu4 jie2] 冰冻三尺，非一日之寒 冰凍三尺，非一日之寒 bīng dòng sān chǐ , fēi yī rì zhī hán three feet of ice does not form in a single day (idiom) / Rome wasn't built in a day 半日工作 bàn rì gōng zuò part-time work in which one works each day for a half-day, typically a morning or an afternoon 哈努卡 hā nǔ kǎ Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar) / also called 光明節|光明节 and 哈努卡節|哈努卡节 