度 dù to pass / to spend (time) / measure / limit / extent / degree of intensity / degree (angles, temperature etc) / kilowatt-hour / classifier for events and occurrences syn 温度 溫度 wēn dù temperature / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 发烧 發燒 fā shāo to have a high temperature (from illness) / to have a fever / (fig.) to be fascinated with / to obsess over / (fig.) flourishing / thriving / popular syn 体温 體溫 tǐ wēn (body) temperature 发热 發熱 fā rè to have a high temperature / feverish / unable to think calmly / to emit heat syn 气温 氣溫 qì wēn air temperature / CL:個|个[ge4] 高温 高溫 gāo wēn high temperature 低温 低溫 dī wēn low temperature 降温 降溫 jiàng wēn to become cooler / to lower the temperature / cooling / (of interest, activity etc) to decline syn 高烧 高燒 gāo shāo fever / high temperature syn 热度 熱度 rè dù level of heat / (fig.) zeal / fervor / (coll.) a temperature (i.e. abnormally high body heat) syn 升温 升溫 shēng wēn to become hot / temperature rise / (fig.) to intensify / to hot up / to escalate / to get a boost 水温 水溫 shuǐ wēn water temperature 室温 室溫 shì wēn room temperature 高位 gāo wèi high position / eminent status / top job / raised position / upper (limbs) / a high (i.e. local maximum) / high point on scale, high grade, temperature, latitude etc syn 恒温 恆溫 héng wēn constant temperature 常温 常溫 cháng wēn room temperature / ordinary temperatures 冷暖 lěng nuǎn lit. daily changes of temperature / fig. well-being / sb's comfort, health, prosperity etc syn 加温 加溫 jiā wēn to heat / to add warmth / to raise temperature / fig. to stimulate syn 温差 溫差 wēn chā difference in temperature 环境温度 環境溫度 huán jìng wēn dù environmental temperature 平均气温 平均氣溫 píng jūn qì wēn average temperature 测温 測溫 cè wēn to measure temperature 量体温 量體溫 liáng tǐ wēn to take sb's temperature 等温 等溫 děng wēn of equal temperature / isothermic 坠海 墜海 zhuì hǎi to fall into the ocean / to crash into the ocean 烧 燒 shāo to burn / to cook / to stew / to bake / to roast / to heat / to boil (tea, water etc) / fever / to run a temperature / (coll.) to let things go to one's head syn 温 溫 wēn warm / lukewarm / to warm up / (bound form) temperature / (bound form) mild / soft / tender / to review (a lesson etc) / (TCM) fever / epidemic / pestilence (old variant of 瘟[wen1]) syn 开尔文 開爾文 kāi ěr wén Lord Kelvin 1824-1907, British physicist (William Thomson) / Kelvin (temperature scale) 土温 土溫 tǔ wēn temperature of the soil syn 温标 溫標 wēn biāo temperature scale 水温表 水溫表 shuǐ wēn biǎo engine temperature gauge / coolant temperature gauge 着火点 著火點 zháo huǒ diǎn ignition point (temperature) / combustion point syn 海 hǎi ocean / sea / CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4] / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous syn 大海 dà hǎi sea / ocean syn 海洋 hǎi yáng ocean / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 太平洋 tài píng yáng Pacific Ocean 海底 hǎi dǐ seabed / seafloor / bottom of the ocean 大西洋 dà xī yáng Atlantic Ocean 大洋 dà yáng ocean / (old) silver dollar / (slang) Chinese yuan syn 斐济 斐濟 fěi jì Fiji, country in the southwest Pacific Ocean 海面 hǎi miàn the surface of the sea / ocean surface 汹涌 洶湧 xiōng yǒng to surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc) / turbulent syn 西洋 xī yáng the West (Europe and North America) / countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional) 邮轮 郵輪 yóu lún ocean liner / cruise liner syn 浪花 làng huā spray / ocean spray / spindrift / fig. happenings from one's life / CL:朵[duo3] syn 浩瀚 hào hàn vast (of ocean) / boundless syn 洋流 yáng liú ocean current syn 远洋 遠洋 yuǎn yáng distant seas / the open ocean (far from the coast) syn 寒流 hán liú cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream syn 印度洋 yìn dù yáng Indian Ocean 浪涛 浪濤 làng tāo ocean wave / billows syn 北冰洋 běi bīng yáng Arctic ocean 洋面 yáng miàn ocean surface 浩荡 浩蕩 hào dàng vast and mighty (of river or ocean) / broad and powerful syn 曾经沧海 曾經滄海 céng jīng cāng hǎi lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom) / fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of life syn 中远 中遠 zhōng yuǎn China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) (abbr. for 中國遠洋運輸|中国远洋运输[Zhong1 guo2 Yuan3 yang2 Yun4 shu1]) 下西洋 xià xī yáng to sail west (from China) (used in reference to the 15th century voyages of Zheng He 鄭和|郑和[Zheng4 He2] to regions bordering the Indian Ocean) 西太平洋 xī tài píng yáng the western Pacific Ocean 沧海一粟 滄海一粟 cāng hǎi yī sù a drop in the ocean (idiom) syn 横断 橫斷 héng duàn to cross (a road, an ocean etc) / to cut across 欲海 yù hǎi ocean of lust (Buddhist term) / worldly desires 漂洋 piāo yáng to cross the ocean 中国海 中國海 zhōng guó hǎi the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea) 九牛一毛 jiǔ niú yī máo lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean syn 积少成多 積少成多 jī shǎo chéng duō (idiom) many little things add up to sth great / many little drops make an ocean syn 望洋兴叹 望洋興嘆 wàng yáng xīng tàn lit. to gaze at the ocean and lament one's inadequacy (idiom) / fig. to feel powerless and incompetent (to perform a task) syn 洋 yáng ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin syn 摩加迪沙 mó jiā dí shā Mogadishu, Indian ocean seaport and capital of Somalia 海床 hǎi chuáng seabed / seafloor / bottom of the ocean 沧 滄 cāng (bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green / (literary) cold 水圈 shuǐ quān the earth's ocean / the hydrosphere (geology) 瓦努阿图 瓦努阿圖 wǎ nǔ ā tú Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean 南冰洋 nán bīng yáng Southern Ocean 翻车鱼 翻車魚 fān chē yú ocean sunfish (Mola mola) 退冰 tuì bīng to thaw (frozen food) / to bring to room temperature 精卫填海 精衛填海 jīng wèi tián hǎi lit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom) / futile ambition / task of Sisyphus / determination in the face of impossible odds syn 邮船 郵船 yóu chuán mailboat / ocean liner syn 烟海 煙海 yān hǎi the vast ocean 瀚 hàn ocean / vastness syn 瀛 yíng ocean syn 摄氏温标 攝氏溫標 shè shì wēn biāo Celsius (centigrade) temperature scale 绝对温度 絕對溫度 jué duì wēn dù absolute temperature 绝对高度 絕對高度 jué duì gāo dù absolute temperature 热力学温度 熱力學溫度 rè lì xué wēn dù thermodynamic temperature (temperature above absolute zero) 电导率、温度、深度、盐度 電導率、溫度、深度、鹽度 conductivity, temperature, depth, salinity / salinity, conductivity, temperature, depth 洋底 yáng dǐ ocean floor / bottom of the ocean 大洋钻探计划 大洋鉆探計劃 Ocean Drilling Project / Ocean Drilling Programme 大陆地壳和海洋地壳过渡区 大陸地殼和海洋地殼過渡區 continent / ocean crust transition / continent-ocean transition 南极和南极洋合作研究中心 南極和南極洋合作研究中心 Cooperative Research Centre for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Environment / Cooperative Research Centre for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean 南极研究中心 南極研究中心 Cooperative Research Centre for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Environment / Cooperative Research Centre for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean 沧海一粟 滄海一粟 cāng hǎi - yī sù lit. one grain floating on the ocean (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean syn 温度梯度 溫度梯度 wēn dù tī dù temperature gradient 标准状况 標準狀況 biāo zhǔn zhuàng kuàng standard conditions for temperature and pressure 标准状态 標準狀態 biāo zhǔn zhuàng tài standard conditions for temperature and pressure 伴热 伴熱 bàn rè electric heat tracing / steam tracing (for maintaining the temperature of pipes etc) 冷热度数 冷熱度數 lěng rè dù shù temperature (esp. of medical patient) 凝汞温度 凝汞溫度 níng gǒng wēn dù mercury condensation temperature (physics) 列氏温标 列氏溫標 liè shì wēn biāo Réaumur temperature scale 