"badly battered" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 鼻青脸肿 鼻青臉腫 | a bloody nose and a swollen face / badly battered |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 涂鸦 塗鴉 | graffiti / scrawl / poor calligraphy / to write badly / to scribble | syn | |
| 焦头烂额 焦頭爛額 | lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom) / fig. hard-pressed / under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc) | syn | |
| 残缺 殘缺 | badly damaged / shattered | syn | |
| 头破血流 頭破血流 | lit. head broken and blood flowing / fig. badly bruised | syn | |
| 引以为戒 引以為戒 | to take sth as a warning (idiom) / to draw a lesson from a case where things turned out badly | syn | |
| 狼狈不堪 狼狽不堪 | battered and exhausted / stuck in a dilemma | syn | |
| 窄 | narrow / narrow-minded / badly off | syn | |
| 慢待 | to slight (treat badly) | ||
| 风吹雨打 風吹雨打 | lit. windswept and battered by rain / to undergo hardship (idiom) | syn | |
| 以汤沃沸 以湯沃沸 | to manage a situation badly (idiom) | ||
| 收残缀轶 收殘綴軼 | to gather and patch up sth that is badly damaged (idiom) | ||
| 被殴打的妻子 被毆打的妻子 | battered wife / battered woman | ||
| 被殴打的妇女 被毆打的婦女 | battered wife / battered woman | ||
| 涂鸭 塗鴨 | variant of 塗鴉|涂鸦[tu2 ya1] / graffiti / scrawl / poor calligraphy / to write badly / to scribble | ||
| 征彸 | scared / badly frightened | ||
| 血肉模糊 | to be badly mangled or mutilated (idiom) | ||
| 满地找牙 滿地找牙 | to be looking for one's teeth all over the floor / (fig.) to get beaten up badly / to beat the crap out of (sb) | ||
| 后果自负 後果自負 | to take responsibility for the consequences of risky behavior / to have only oneself to blame if things go badly | ||
| 吃席 | to attend a banquet (funeral, wedding etc) / (neologism c. 2020) (slang) (jocular) lit. to attend sb's funeral banquet (used to imply that things are going to go badly for sb) | ||
| 暴风圈 暴風圈 | (meteorology) storm area (area exposed to winds of force 7 or higher during a typhoon) / (fig.) area particularly badly affected by a crisis | ||
| 血肉模糊 | (idiom) badly mangled or mutilated / gruesome |