澄清 chéng qīng clear (of liquid) / limpid / to clarify / to make sth clear / to be clear (about the facts) syn 清亮 qīng liàng (of sound) clear and resonant / bright / (of eyes) bright / (of water) crystal-clear / limpid / clear (in one's mind) syn 清朗 qīng lǎng clear and bright / unclouded / clear and sonorous (voice) / clear and lively (narrative) syn 清 qīng (of water etc) clear / clean / quiet / still / pure / uncorrupted / clear / distinct / to clear / to settle (accounts) syn 清楚 qīng chu clear / distinct / to understand thoroughly / to be clear about syn 可见 可見 kě jiàn it can clearly be seen (that this is the case) / it is (thus) clear / clear / visible syn 鲜明 鮮明 xiān míng (of colors) bright / fresh and clear / clear-cut / distinct syn 明了 明瞭 míng liǎo to understand clearly / to be clear about / plain / clear syn 白 bái white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera syn 泓 hóng clear / vast and deep / classifier for a body of clear water syn 口齿清楚 口齒清楚 kǒu chǐ qīng chu clear diction / clear articulation 高朗 gāo lǎng loud and clear / bright and clear 大多 dà duō for the most part / many / most / the greater part / mostly syn 多半 duō bàn most / mostly / most likely syn 出没 出沒 chū mò to come and go / to roam about (mostly unseen) / (of a ghost) to haunt (a place) / (of a criminal) to stalk (the streets) / (of the sun) to rise and set 星火 xīng huǒ spark / meteor trail (mostly used in expressions like 急如星火[ji2 ru2 xing1 huo3]) syn 十有八九 shí yǒu bā jiǔ most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority syn 问津 問津 wèn jīn to make inquiries (mostly used in the negative) syn 侗族 dòng zú Kam people, who live mostly in southern China and in the north of Laos and Vietnam 十之八九 shí zhī bā jiǔ most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority syn 大篷车 大篷車 dà péng chē covered truck / covered wagon / bus with some seating but mostly standing room 歌功颂德 歌功頌德 gē gōng sòng dé to sing sb's praises (mostly derogatory) syn 水 shuǐ water / (after a name) ... River / to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4shui3] and 水性[shui3xing4]) / (coll.) lacking in substance / shoddy / (bound form) additional cost / extra income / classifier for washings of a garment syn 吸虫 吸蟲 xī chóng trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, approx 6000 species, mostly parasite, incl. on humans 像话 像話 xiàng huà proper / appropriate (mostly used in the negative or in a rhetorical question) 太半 tài bàn more than half / a majority / most / mostly 槚 檟 jiǎ Catalpa, a genus of mostly deciduous trees / old term for Camellia sinensis, the tea plant 茶 / also called Thea sinensis / small evergreen shrub (Mallotus japonicus) 泰半 tài bàn more than half / a majority / most / mostly 汤玉麟 湯玉麟 tāng yù lín Tang Yulin (1871-1937), minor warlord in northeast China, sometime governor of Chengde 承德, mostly poor in battle but very successful at accumulating personal wealth 硅质岩 硅質岩 guī zhì yán siliceous rock (mostly composed of silica) 侧生动物 側生動物 cè shēng dòng wù parazoan (animal of the subkingdom Parazoa, mostly sponges) 圐圙 kū lüè enclosed pasture (Mongolian loanword) / now mostly replaced by 庫倫|库伦[ku4 lun2] 辜鸿铭 辜鴻銘 gū hóng míng Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857-1928), Malaysian man of letters, highly regarded for his literary works written mostly in English, and known for his monarchist views 冘 yóu (bound form) mostly used in either 冘豫[you2 yu4] or 冘疑[you2 yi2] 妘 yún surname Yun / (used in given names, mostly female names) 姈 líng (literary) (of a woman) intelligent / (used mostly in female names) 㛃 jié variant of 潔|洁[jie2] (mostly used in given names) 气候 氣候 qì hòu (meteorology) climate / (fig.) climate / prevailing conditions (in human affairs) / CL:種|种[zhong3] syn 高压 高壓 gāo yā (physics) high pressure / (meteorology) high atmospheric pressure / high voltage / systolic blood pressure / high-handed / oppressive syn 气象 氣象 qì xiàng meteorological condition / weather / meteorology / atmosphere / ambience / scene syn 狂风 狂風 kuáng fēng gale / squall / whole gale (meteorology) syn 暴风 暴風 bào fēng windstorm / (meteorology) storm (force 11 wind) syn 多云 多雲 duō yún cloudy (meteorology) 降水 jiàng shuǐ rain and snow / precipitation (meteorology) syn 降水量 jiàng shuǐ liàng precipitation (meteorology) / measured quantity of rain 强风 強風 qiáng fēng strong breeze (meteorology) syn 气象学 氣象學 qì xiàng xué meteorology 低气压 低氣壓 dī qì yā low pressure / depression (meteorology) 圣婴 聖嬰 shèng yīng El Niño (meteorology) / Holy Infant (Christianity) 冷锋 冷鋒 lěng fēng cold front (meteorology) 锋面 鋒面 fēng miàn front (meteorology) 极光 極光 jí guāng aurora (meteorology) 水龙卷 水龍卷 shuǐ lóng juǎn waterspout (meteorology) 静止锋 靜止鋒 jìng zhǐ fēng stationary front (meteorology) 风切变 風切變 fēng qiē biàn wind shear (meteorology) 锢囚锋 錮囚鋒 gù qiú fēng occluded front (meteorology) 气象学和气候学特殊应用委员会 Commission for Special Applications of Meteorology and Climatology 日地物理学和气象学 Solar-Terrestrial Physics-Meteorology 环境、气象和森林技术委员会 環境、氣象和森林技術委員會 Technical Committee on Environment, Meteorology and Forestry 农业气象学 nóng yè qì xiàng xué Agro-meteorology 南极气象工作组 南极气象工作組 nán jí qì xiàng gōng zuò zǔ Working Group on Antartic Meteorology 天气学 天气學 tiān qì xué synoptic meteorology 英联邦气象学研究中心 英聯邦氣象學研究中心 Commonwealth Meteorology Research Centre 空间气象学 空間氣象學 space meteorology 南共体运输、通信和气象议定书 南共體運輸、通信和氣象議定書 SADC Protocol on Transport, Communications and Meteorology 农业气象方案 農業气象方案 nóng yè qì xiàng fāng àn Agricultural Meteorology Programme 农业气象学委员会 農業氣象學委員會 Commission for Agricultural Meteorology 航空气象学委员会 航空氣象學委員會 Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology 国际气象学和大气物理学协会 國際氣象學和大氣物理學協會 International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics 气象和能源技术会议 氣象和能源技術會議 Technical Conference on Meteorology and Energy 世界气象数据中心 世界氣象數據中心 World Data Centres for Meteorology 航空气象学方桉 航空氣象學方案 Aeronautical Meteorology Programme 热带气象方案 熱帶气象方案 rè dài qì xiàng fāng àn Tropical Meteorology Programme 气象学应用方桉 氣象學應用方案 Applications of Meteorology Programme 无线电气象学联盟间委员会 無線電氣象學聯盟間委員會 Inter-Union Commission on Radio Meteorology 平流层和中层气象学小组 平流層和中層氣象學小組 Panel on Meteorology of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere 海洋学和海洋气象学联合委员会 海洋學和海洋氣象學聯合委員會 Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology 加勒比气象和水文研究所 加勒比氣象和水文研究所 Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology 海洋气象学委员会 海洋氣象學委員會 Commission for Marine Meteorology 热带气象和热带气旋训练班 熱帶氣象和熱帶氣旋訓練班 Training Course on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclone 低压带 低壓帶 dī yā dài low-pressure zone / depression (meteorology) 反圣婴 反聖嬰 fǎn shèng yīng La Niña (counterpart of El Niño in meteorology) 囚锢锋 囚錮鋒 qiú gù fēng occluded front (meteorology) 暖锋 暖鋒 nuǎn fēng warm front (meteorology) 滞留锋 滯留鋒 zhì liú fēng stationary front (meteorology) 体感温度 體感溫度 tǐ gǎn wēn dù apparent temperature (meteorology) 日较差 日較差 rì jiào chā (meteorology) diurnal range (temperature, humidity etc) 暴风圈 暴風圈 bào fēng quān (meteorology) storm area (area exposed to winds of force 7 or higher during a typhoon) / (fig.) area particularly badly affected by a crisis 明显 明顯 míng xiǎn clear / distinct / obvious syn 明白 míng bai clear / obvious / unequivocal / sensible / reasonable / to understand / to realize syn 明确 明確 míng què clear-cut / definite / explicit / to clarify / to specify / to make definite syn 清除 qīng chú to clear away / to eliminate / to get rid of syn 表明 biǎo míng to make clear / to make known / to state clearly / to indicate / known syn 清晰 qīng xī clear / distinct syn 不详 不詳 bù xiáng not in detail / not quite clear syn 清理 qīng lǐ to clear up / to tidy up / to dispose of syn 清醒 qīng xǐng clear-headed / sober / awake syn 不明 bù míng not clear / unknown / to fail to understand syn 分明 fēn míng clear / distinct / evidently / clearly syn 