"a contrast" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 陪衬 陪襯 | to serve as a foil / to set off / a foil / a contrast | syn |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 而 | and / as well as / and so / but (not) / yet (not) / (indicates causal relation) / (indicates change of state) / (indicates contrast) | syn | |
| 比较 比較 | to compare / to contrast / comparatively / relatively / quite / comparison | syn | |
| 则 則 | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but / then / (bound form) standard / norm / (bound form) principle / (literary) to imitate / to follow / classifier for written items | syn | |
| 对比 對比 | to contrast / contrast / ratio / CL:個|个[ge4] | syn | |
| 对照 對照 | to contrast / to compare / to place side by side for comparison (as parallel texts) / to check | syn | |
| 比照 | according to / in the light of / contrast | syn | |
| 映衬 映襯 | to set off by contrast / antithesis / analogy parallelism (linguistics) | syn | |
| 对比度 對比度 | contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup) / degree of contrast | ||
| 反差 | contrast / discrepancy | syn | |
| 反观 反觀 | by contrast / but as for this... / viewed from another angle / subjectively / introspection | syn | |
| 正室 | primary wife (in contrast to concubine) / legal wife | ||
| 衬 襯 | (of garments) against the skin / to line / lining / to contrast with / to assist financially | syn | |
| 烘 | to bake / to heat by fire / to set off by contrast | syn | |
| 时至今日 時至今日 | (idiom) up to the present / even now / now (in contrast with the past) / at this late hour | syn | |
| 显影剂 顯影劑 | developer (photographic processing) / contrast medium (medical imaging) | ||
| 对比色 對比色 | color contrast | syn | |
| 超声造影成像 超聲造影成像 | contrast-enhanced | ||
| 今昔对比 今昔對比 | to contrast past suffering with present happiness (idiom) | ||
| 声阻抗对比 | acoustic impedance contrast | ||
| 哪像 | unlike / in contrast to | ||
| 烘衬 烘襯 | to set off / to highlight by contrast | syn | |
| 相衬 相襯 | to contrast / to set off one another / to go well with | ||
| 黑白分明 | lit. black and white clearly contrasted (idiom) / fig. unambiguous / black-and-white / in sharp contrast / to distinguish clearly right from wrong | syn | |
| 反衬 反襯 | to serve as a foil / to highlight through contrast | syn | |
| 好报 好報 | karmic reward (resulting from good deeds, in contrast to karmic retribution 惡報|恶报[e4 bao4]) |