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"dead man's switch" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
操作人失知制动装置 cào zuò rén shī zhī zhì dòng zhuāng zhì dead man's switch
Chinese Pinyin Translation
开关 開關 kāi guān power switch / gas valve / to open the city (or frontier) gate / to open and close / to switch on and off syn
切换 切換 qiē huàn to switch over / to switch modes or data streams / to cut (to a new scene)
捧哏 pěng gén straight man (supporting role in comic dialogue 對口相聲|对口相声[dui4kou3 xiang4sheng1]) / (of a straight man) to react with exasperation to the silliness of the funny man 逗哏[dou4gen2]
死无对证 死無對證 sǐ wú duì zhèng the dead cannot testify (idiom) / dead men tell no tales
要死不活 yào sǐ bù huó half dead / more dead than alive syn
止点 止點 zhǐ diǎn (mechanical engineering) dead point / dead center
老者 lǎo zhě old man / elderly man syn
老头子 老頭子 lǎo tóu zi (coll.) old man / (said of an aging husband) my old man syn
老汉 老漢 lǎo hàn old man / I (an old man referring to himself) syn
大丈夫 dà zhàng fu a manly man / a man of character syn
大块头 大塊頭 dà kuài tóu heavy man / fat man / lunkhead / lummox / lug syn
原人 yuán rén prehistoric man / primitive man syn
对口相声 對口相聲 duì kǒu xiàng shēng comic crosstalk / formalized comic dialogue between two stand-up comics: funny man 逗哏[dou4 gen2] and straight man 捧哏[peng3 gen2]
为仁不富 為仁不富 wéi rén bù fù the rich man cannot be benevolent (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24).
为富不仁 為富不仁 wéi fù bù rén the benevolent man cannot be rich (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24). syn
无毒不丈夫 無毒不丈夫 wú dú bù zhàng fu no poison, no great man (idiom) / A great man has to be ruthless.
一人得道，鸡犬升天 一人得道，雞犬升天 yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom) / fig. to ride on sb else's success / Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too / Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
欧吉桑 歐吉桑 ōu jí sāng older man / man of mature years (Japanese loanword)
为富不仁，为仁不富 為富不仁，為仁不富 wéi fù bù rén , wéi rén bù fù the benevolent man cannot be rich and vice versa (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24).
男人膝下有黄金 男人膝下有黃金 nán rén xī xià yǒu huáng jīn lit. the man has gold under his knees / fig. a man who does not easily kneel in front of others (owing to pride or moral integrity)
谋事在人，成事在天 謀事在人，成事在天 móu shì zài rén , chéng shì zài tiān planning is with man, accomplishing with heaven (idiom) / Man proposes but God disposes.
探雷员 探雷員 detector man / mine-detector man
授人以鱼不如授人以渔 授人以魚不如授人以漁 shòu rén yǐ yú bù rú shòu rén yǐ yú give a man a fish and you feed him for a day / teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime / knowledge is the best charity
授之以鱼不如授之以渔 授之以魚不如授之以漁 shòu zhī yǐ yú bù rú shòu zhī yǐ yú give a man a fish and you feed him for a day / teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime (idiom)
萝卜白菜，各有所爱 蘿蔔白菜，各有所愛 luó bo bái cài , gè yǒu suǒ ài one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom) / to each his own
孤男寡女 gū nán guǎ nǚ a single man and a single woman / bachelors / a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)
同妻 tóng qī (neologism c. 2009) wife of a gay man (the man may marry to conform with social expectations, and the woman often enters the marriage not knowing he is gay)
甲之蜜糖，乙之砒霜 jiǎ zhī mì táng , yǐ zhī pī shuāng one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)
大男人 dà nán rén very masculine guy / a real man / (used ironically) a grown man
异男 異男 yì nán (Tw) heterosexual man / straight man
萝卜白菜，各有所爱 蘿蔔白菜，各有所愛 luó bo - bái cài , gè yǒu suǒ ài (saying) one man's meat is another man's poison / to each his own
靴子落地 xuē zi luò dì lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
打开 打開 dǎ kāi to open / to show (a ticket) / to turn on / to switch on syn
转换 轉換 zhuǎn huàn to change / to switch / to convert / to transform syn
交换 交換 jiāo huàn to exchange / to swap / to switch (telecom) / commutative (math) / to commute syn
交换机 交換機 jiāo huàn jī switch (telecommunications)
替换 替換 tì huàn to exchange / to replace / to substitute for / to switch syn
转入 轉入 zhuǎn rù to change over to / to shift to / to switch to
刹车 剎車 shā chē to brake (when driving) / to stop / to switch off / to check (bad habits) / a brake syn
关掉 關掉 guān diào to switch off / to shut off syn
转而 轉而 zhuǎn ér to turn to (sth else) / to switch to
改用 gǎi yòng to change over to / to switch to / to use (sth different)
断开 斷開 duàn kāi to break / to sever / to turn off (electric switch)
通电 通電 tōng diàn to set up an electric circuit / to electrify / to switch on / to be connected to an electricity grid / open telegram
转接 轉接 zhuǎn jiē (telephony etc) to switch / to connect / to transfer syn
拧开 擰開 nǐng kāi to unscrew / to twist off (a lid) / to turn on (a faucet) / to switch on (by turning a knob) / to turn (a door handle) / to wrench apart
交换器 交換器 jiāo huàn qì (telecom or network) switch
配电柜 配電櫃 pèi diàn guì power cabinet / switch box
门 門 mén 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
半路出家 bàn lù chū jiā switch to a job one was not trained for syn
道岔 dào chà railroad switch syn
电闸 電閘 diàn zhá electric switch / circuit breaker syn
电门 電門 diàn mén electric switch syn
电钮 電鈕 diàn niǔ push button (electric switch) syn
朝秦暮楚 zhāo qín mù chǔ serve Qin in the morning Chu in the evening (idiom) / quick to switch sides syn
换 換 huàn to exchange / to change (clothes etc) / to substitute / to switch / to convert (currency) syn
闸 閘 zhá sluice / sluice gate / to dam up water / (coll.) brake / (coll.) electric switch syn
前倨后恭 前倨後恭 qián jù hòu gōng to switch from arrogance to deference (idiom)
改换门庭 改換門庭 gǎi huàn mén tíng to improve one's family's social status by moving up in the world / to switch one's allegiance to a new patron
扳道 bān dào railroad switch
扳道岔 bān dào chà railroad switch
气动开关 氣動開關 qì dòng kāi guān pneumatic switch
总开关 總開關 zǒng kāi guān main switch
起动钮 起動鈕 qǐ dòng niǔ starter button / on switch
跳闸 跳閘 tiào zhá (of a circuit breaker or switch) to trip / to jump a turnstile
闸盒 閘盒 zhá hé electric fusebox / switch box
电键 電鍵 diàn jiàn electric key / switch syn
点火开关 點火開關 diǎn huǒ kāi guān ignition switch
诱导转向法 bait and switch
分组接转网络 packet-switch network
光敏开关 光敏開關 guāng mǐn kāi guān light-sensitive switch
特洛伊木马启动开关 特洛伊木馬啟動開關 Trojan horse kill switch
叉簧 chā huáng switch hook (button or cradle of a telephone, whose function is to disconnect the call)
改学 改學 gǎi xué to switch from one major or faculty to another (at a university)
跳电 跳電 tiào diàn (of a circuit breaker or switch) to trip
转作 轉作 zhuǎn zuò (agriculture) to switch to growing a different crop
闭麦 閉麥 bì mài to switch one's microphone to "mute" / (fig.) to go silent
尸体 屍體 shī tǐ corpse / dead body syn
好事 hǎo shì good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed") / charity / happy occasion / Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead syn
没了 沒了 méi le to be dead / not to be, or cease to exist
再生 zài shēng to be reborn / to regenerate / to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person) / recycling / regeneration syn
死人 sǐ rén dead person / (coll.) to die / (of a death) to happen syn
死者 sǐ zhě the dead / the deceased syn
落叶 落葉 luò yè dead leaves / to lose leaves (of plants) / deciduous
千古 qiān gǔ for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead) syn
去死 qù sǐ go to hell! / drop dead!
遗体 遺體 yí tǐ remains (of a dead person) syn
靖国神社 靖國神社 jìng guó shén shè Yasukuni Shrine, Shinto shrine in Tokyo to Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals
死伤 死傷 sǐ shāng casualties / dead and injured syn
击毙 擊斃 jī bì to kill / to shoot dead
白骨 bái gǔ bones of the dead syn
半死 bàn sǐ half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc) / (tired) to death / (terrified) out of one's wits / (beaten) to within an inch of one's life / (knock) the daylights out of sb syn
死角 sǐ jiǎo gap in coverage / gap in protection or defenses / neglected or overlooked area / dead end
不在了 bù zài le to be dead / to have passed away
死路 sǐ lù dead end / (fig.) the road to disaster syn
异物 異物 yì wù rarity / rare delicacy / foreign matter / alien body / the dead / ghost / monstrosity / alien life-form syn
幽魂 yōu hún ghost / spirit (of the dead) syn
夜深人静 夜深人靜 yè shēn rén jìng in the dead of night (idiom) syn
枪毙 槍斃 qiāng bì to execute by firing squad / to shoot dead / fig. to discard / to get rid of syn
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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