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"bunch (of grapes)" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
果穗 guǒ suì ear (of corn or sorghum etc) / bunch (of grapes) / infructescence
Chinese Pinyin Translation
串 chuàn to string together / to skewer / to connect wrongly / to gang up / to rove / string / bunch / skewer / classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of / to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus) / to move across syn
吃不到葡萄说葡萄酸 喫不到葡萄說葡萄酸 chī bù dào pú tao shuō pú tao suān sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them
说葡萄酸 說葡萄酸 shuō pú tao suān sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them
成串 chéng chuàn to be lined up (like a chain of islands, a string of pearls etc) / to form a cluster (like a bunch of grapes) / to come one after the other (like a series of sighs)
嘟噜 嘟嚕 dū lu bunch / cluster / classifier for bunched objects / to hang down in a bunch / to droop syn
酸葡萄 suān pú tao sour grapes
色酒 shǎi jiǔ colored wine (made from grapes or other fruit, as opposed to a rice wine etc)
精选 精選 jīng xuǎn carefully chosen / handpicked / best of the bunch / choice (product) / concentration (mining) / to concentrate / to winnow syn
黑帮 黑幫 hēi bāng bunch of gangsters / criminal gang / organized crime syndicate syn
把 bǎ to hold / to grasp / to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate / handlebar / classifier: handful, bundle, bunch / classifier for things with handles / (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}) syn
束 shù to bind / bunch / bundle / classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc / to control syn
綑 kǔn variant of 捆|捆[kun3] / a bunch / to tie together / bundle
庸人自扰 庸人自擾 yōng rén zì rǎo lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom) / fig. to get upset over nothing / to make problems for oneself syn
废话连篇 廢話連篇 fèi huà lián piān a bunch of nonsense / verbose and rambling
矮子里拔将军 矮子裡拔將軍 ǎi zi li bá jiāng jūn lit. choose a general from among the dwarfs / fig. choose the best person available (out of a mediocre bunch)
穴播 xué bō bunch planting
燕雀乌鹊 燕雀烏鵲 yàn què wū què lit. sparrow and swallow, crow and magpie / fig. any Tom, Dick or Harry / a bunch of nobodies
花簇 huā cù bunch of flowers / bouquet
崒 cuì to come together / to bunch up / to concentrate
一派胡言 yī pài hú yán a bunch of nonsense
一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥 yī lì lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō zhōu lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤 一顆老鼠屎壞了一鍋湯 yī kē lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō tāng lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
鲜花插在牛粪上 鮮花插在牛糞上 xiān huā chā zài niú fèn shàng lit. a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure / fig. a terrible shame (as when a lovely woman marries an odious man)
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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