"Watergate scandal" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 水门事件 水門事件 | Watergate scandal |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 门 門 | gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal / derived from Watergate) | syn | |
| 曝光 | exposure (e.g. of photosensitive material) / to expose (a scandal to the public) | syn | |
| 丑闻 醜聞 | scandal | syn | |
| 绯闻 緋聞 | sex scandal | syn | |
| 丑事 醜事 | scandal | syn | |
| 遮羞 | to cover up one's embarrassment / to hush up a scandal | syn | |
| 曝光 | to expose (photography) / (fig.) to expose (a scandal) / (advertising) exposure / Taiwan pr. [pu4 guang1] | syn | |
| 李陵 | Li Ling (-74 BC), Han dynasty general whose defeat by the Xiongnu 匈奴 in 104 BC led to a major scandal | ||
| 丑行 醜行 | scandal | ||
| 满城风雨 滿城風雨 | lit. wind and rain sweeping through the town (idiom) / fig. a big scandal / an uproar / the talk of the town | syn | |
| 家丑 家醜 | family scandal / skeleton in the closet | ||
| 毒奶粉 | poisoned milk powder / refers to 2008 PRC scandal involving milk powder adulterated with melamine 三聚氰胺[san1 ju4 qing2 an4] | ||
| 三鹿集团 三鹿集團 | Sanlu Group, Chinese state-owned dairy products company involved in the 2008 melamine poisoning scandal | ||
| 好事不出门，恶事传千里 好事不出門，惡事傳千里 | lit. good deeds do not go beyond the door, evil deeds spread a thousand miles / a good deed goes unnoticed, but scandal spreads fast (idiom) | ||
| 德雷福斯案件 | Dreyfus affair 1894-1906, notorious political scandal in France case involving antisemitism and miscarriage of justice | ||
| 恶事传千里 惡事傳千里 | evil deeds spread a thousand miles (idiom) / scandal spreads like wildfire | ||
| 成何体统 成何體統 | What a scandal! / Whatever next? | ||
| 扒粪 扒糞 | muckraking / to stir up scandal / to expose (corruption) | ||
| 桃色新闻 桃色新聞 | sex scandal | syn | |
| 桃色案件 | case involving sex scandal (law) | ||
| 毒奶 | poisoned milk / contaminated milk / refers to 2008 PRC scandal involving milk products adulterated with melamine 三聚氰胺[san1 ju4 qing2 an4] | ||
| 诽闻 誹聞 | scandal / gossip | ||
| 电话门 電話門 | "Phone Gate", corruption scandal unearthed through telephone records | ||
| 弊案 | scandal | ||
| 塌房 | (neologism c. 2020) (of a celebrity) to have one's reputation tank due to a scandal | ||
| 扒粪 扒糞 | muckraking / to stir up scandal / to expose (corruption) |