"lightning bug" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 萤火虫 螢火蟲 | firefly / glowworm / lightning bug | syn |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 电 電 | lightning / electricity / electric (bound form) / to get (or give) an electric shock / phone call or telegram etc / to send via telephone or telegram etc | syn | |
| 虫子 蟲子 | insect / bug / worm / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1] | syn | |
| 闪电 閃電 | lightning / CL:道[dao4] | syn | |
| 故障 | malfunction / breakdown / defect / shortcoming / fault / failure / impediment / error / bug (in software) | ||
| 窃听器 竊聽器 | tapping device / bug | ||
| 飞快 飛快 | very fast / at lightning speed / (coll.) razor-sharp | syn | |
| 雷电 雷電 | thunder and lightning | syn | |
| 划破 劃破 | to cut open / to rip / to streak across (lightning, meteor etc) / to pierce (scream, searchlight etc) | ||
| 神速 | lightning speed / amazingly rapid / incredible pace of development | syn | |
| 雷击 雷擊 | lightning strike / thunderbolt | ||
| 电光 電光 | electric light / lightning / electro-optical | ||
| 电闪 電閃 | lightning flashes | syn | |
| 避雷针 避雷針 | lightning rod | ||
| 风驰电掣 風馳電掣 | fast as lightning | syn | |
| 白蜡 白蠟 | white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela) | ||
| 划过 划過 | (of a meteor etc) to streak across (the sky) / (of a searchlight, lightning etc) to play across (the sky) | ||
| 避雷器 | lightning arrester | ||
| 劈手 | with a lightning move of the hand | syn | |
| 闪击 閃擊 | lightning attack / Blitzkrieg | syn | |
| 闪 閃 | to dodge / to duck out of the way / to beat it / shaken (by a fall) / to sprain / to pull a muscle / lightning / spark / a flash / to flash (across one's mind) / to leave behind / (Internet slang) (of a display of affection) "dazzlingly" saccharine | syn | |
| 劈 | to hack / to chop / to split open / (of lightning) to strike | syn | |
| 闪击战 閃擊戰 | lightning war / Blitzkrieg | syn | |
| 电光朝露 電光朝露 | flash of lightning, morning dew (idiom) / fig. ephemeral / impermanent | ||
| 潮虫 潮蟲 | woodlouse (suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda) / a.k.a. roly-poly, pill bug, sow bug etc | ||
| 落雷 | lightning bolt / lightning strike | ||
| 白蜡虫 白蠟蟲 | Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela) | syn | |
| 网蝽 網蝽 | lace bug / Tingidae | ||
| 虫白蜡 蟲白蠟 | white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela) | ||
| 虫蜡 蟲蠟 | white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela) | ||
| 蜡虫 蠟蟲 | Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela) | syn | |
| 网络爬虫 | web bug | ||
| 盲蝽 | capsid bug | ||
| 转基因微生物 轉基因微生物 | designer bug | ||
| 人造病原体 | designer bug | ||
| 藒车 藒車 | a variety of aromatic herb used as a fragrance or bug repeller (old) | ||
| 蛜蝛 | woodlouse / pill bug | ||
| 鼠妇 鼠婦 | woodlouse / pill bug | ||
| 程错 程錯 | (computing) glitch / bug | ||
| 列缺 | lightning (archaic word) | ||
| 列缺霹雳 列缺霹靂 | lightning and thunder | ||
| 闪电式结婚 閃電式結婚 | lightning wedding / to get married on the spur of the moment / abbr. to 閃婚|闪婚 | ||
| 雷电计 雷電計 | brontometer / apparatus to measure thunder and lightning | ||
| 雷电计图 雷電計圖 | brontograph / record of thunder and lightning | ||
| 雷电行动 雷電行動 | Operation Lightning Thunder | ||
| 杀进杀出 殺進殺出 | to execute a lightning raid / (investment) to buy, then quickly sell / (tourism) to visit a destination for only a short stay |