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"old people's home" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
安老院 ān lǎo yuàn (dialect) old people's home / nursing home
老人院 lǎo rén yuàn nursing home / old people's home syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
居家 jū jiā to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc) syn
华沙条约 華沙條約 huá shā tiáo yuē Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the People's Republic of Albania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic, the Romanian People's Repub
华沙友好合作互助条约 華沙友好合作互助條約 Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the People's Republic of Albania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic, the Romanian People's Repub
主场 主場 zhǔ chǎng (sports) home ground / home field / (sports) home game / main venue (for a festival etc)
临门 臨門 lín mén to arrive home / facing one's home / home-coming / (soccer) facing the goalmouth
恋家 戀家 liàn jiā home-loving / to feel a strong attachment to home life / to begrudge being away from home syn
宾至如归 賓至如歸 bīn zhì rú guī guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc) / a home away from home syn
在家千日好，出门一时难 在家千日好，出門一時難 zài jiā qiān rì hǎo , chū mén yī shí nán lit. at home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort, but spending a day away from home can be challenging (idiom) / fig. there's no place like home
旧账 舊賬 jiù zhàng lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
老账 老賬 lǎo zhàng lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
敬老院 jìng lǎo yuàn senior citizens' home / old folks' home syn
叶落归根 葉落歸根 yè luò guī gēn a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home. syn
树高千丈，叶落归根 樹高千丈，葉落歸根 shù gāo qiān zhàng , yè luò guī gēn fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home
老牌 lǎo pái old, well-known brand / old style / old school / an old hand / experienced veteran syn
卿 qīng high ranking official (old) / term of endearment between spouses (old) / (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old) / honorific (old) syn
何不食肉糜 hé bù shí ròu mí lit. "Why don't they eat meat?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝|晋惠帝[Jin4 Hui4 di4] when told that his people didn't have enough rice to eat) / fig. (of people from higher class etc) to be oblivious to other people's plight
家居 jiā jū home / residence / to stay at home (unemployed) syn
出门 出門 chū mén to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married syn
家庭影院 jiā tíng yǐng yuàn home cinema / home theater
本垒 本壘 běn lěi (baseball) home base / home plate
宅 zhái residence / (coll.) to stay in at home / to hang around at home syn
四海为家 四海為家 sì hǎi wéi jiā to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own syn
打道回府 dǎ dào huí fǔ to go home (in a ceremonial procession) / to return home syn
归省 歸省 guī xǐng to go home for a visit / to return to one's parents' home to pay respects
第二回籍假国 第二回籍假國 alternative home leave country / alternate home leave country
替代回籍假国 替代回籍假國 alternative home leave country / alternate home leave country
家庭直播电视 家庭直播電視 direct-to-home television / direct-to-home broadcasting
家庭直播 direct-to-home television / direct-to-home broadcasting
在家靠父母，出外靠朋友 zài jiā kào fù mǔ , chū wài kào péng you one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
在家靠父母，出门靠朋友 在家靠父母，出門靠朋友 zài jiā kào fù mǔ , chū mén kào péng you one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
家去 jiā qù (dialect) to go home / to return home
家访 家訪 jiā fǎng to pay a home visit, esp. (of a teacher) to visit a student's home
男女老少 nán nǚ lǎo shào men, women, young and old / all kinds of people / people of all ages
蛮子 蠻子 mán zi barbarian / slave servant / (old) contemptuous term for people from southern China (used by northern Chinese people)
喜新厌旧 喜新厭舊 xǐ xīn yàn jiù lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom) / fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old syn
老骥伏枥志在千里 老驥伏櫪志在千里 lǎo jì fú lì zhì zài qiān lǐ (lit.) an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 li / (fig.) old people may still cherish high aspirations
老骥伏枥，志在千里 老驥伏櫪，志在千里 lǎo jì fú lì , zhì zài qiān lǐ lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom) / fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations
乡亲 鄉親 xiāng qīn fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home syn
云散风流 雲散風流 yún sàn fēng liú lit. clouds scatter, wind flows (idiom) / the crisis settles down / people disperse home / things return to normal
茂汶县 茂汶縣 mào wèn xiàn Maowen county in Sichuan, home of the Qiang people 羗族|羌族
远人 遠人 yuǎn rén an estranged person / sb who is alienated / people far from home
查水表 chá shuǐ biǎo (Internet slang) (of the police) to ask to be let in on the pretext of checking the water meter / to barge into people's home on false pretences
当官不为民做主不如回家卖红薯 當官不為民做主不如回家賣紅薯 dāng guān bù wèi mín zuò zhǔ bù rú huí jiā mài hóng shǔ if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes
老娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife syn
老不死 lǎo bù sǐ (derog.) old but still alive / old fart / old bastard
念旧 念舊 niàn jiù to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake syn
故道 gù dào old road / old way / old course (of a river)
甲 jiǎ first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° syn
童叟无欺 童叟無欺 tóng sǒu wú qī cheating neither old nor young (idiom) / treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike. syn
翻老账 翻老賬 fān lǎo zhàng to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds
翻旧账 翻舊賬 fān jiù zhàng to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds
老少无欺 老少無欺 lǎo shào wú qī cheating neither old nor young / treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike. syn
旧病复发 舊病復發 jiù bìng fù fā old illness recurs (idiom) / a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem syn
游学 遊學 yóu xué to study away from home or abroad (old)
旧居 舊居 jiù jū old residence / former home syn
识途老马 識途老馬 shí tú lǎo mǎ lit. an old horse knows the way home (idiom) / fig. in difficulty, trust an experience colleague syn
落叶归根 落葉歸根 luò yè guī gēn lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / fig. all things go back to their source eventually / in old age, an expatriate returns home syn
回娘家 huí niáng jiā (of a wife) to return to her parental home / (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
亵服 褻服 xiè fú informal wear / home clothes (old) / women's underwear / lingerie
人家 rén jia other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people") syn
民间 民間 mín jiān among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments
万人 萬人 wàn rén ten thousand people / all the people / everyman
人民法院 rén mín fǎ yuàn people's court (of law) / people's tribunal syn
世人 shì rén people (in general) / people around the world / everyone syn
两会 兩會 liǎng huì National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
大多数人 大多數人 dà duō shù rén most people / the majority of people
民生 mín shēng people's livelihood / people's welfare
有心人 yǒu xīn rén resolute person / person with aspirations / people who feel / people who use their heads syn
口子 kǒu zi hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent syn
深入人心 shēn rù rén xīn to enter deeply into people's hearts / to have a real impact on the people (idiom)
民情 mín qíng circumstances of the people / popular sentiment / the mood of the people / popular customs syn
食人 shí rén man-eating (beast) / to eat people / fig. to oppress the people
普通老百姓 pǔ tōng lǎo bǎi xìng common people / average people / hoi polloi
亲民 親民 qīn mín in touch with the people / sensitive to people's needs
良民 liáng mín good people / ordinary people (i.e. not the lowest class) syn
嶙峋 lín xún bony (of people) / craggy / rugged (of terrain) / upright (of people) syn
万众一心 萬眾一心 wàn zhòng yī xīn millions of people all of one mind (idiom) / the people united syn
掩人耳目 yǎn rén ěr mù to fool people (idiom) / to pull the wool over people's eyes syn
杀人如麻 殺人如麻 shā rén rú má lit. to kill people like scything flax (idiom) / fig. to kill people like flies syn
仗势欺人 仗勢欺人 zhàng shì qī rén to take advantage of one's position to bully people (idiom) / to kick people around syn
政通人和 zhèng tōng rén hé efficient government, people at peace (idiom) / all is well with the state and the people syn
官逼民反 guān bī mín fǎn a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom) / a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people syn
辈 輩 bèi lifetime / generation / group of people / class / classifier for generations / (literary) classifier for people syn
民以食为天 民以食為天 mín yǐ shí wéi tiān Food is the God of the people. (idiom) / People view food as the primary need. / Food first, ethical niceties second syn
民生主义 民生主義 mín shēng zhǔ yì principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade)
民脂民膏 mín zhī mín gāo lit. the fat and wealth of the people (idiom) / the nation's hard-won wealth (esp. as an object of unscrupulous exploitation) / the people's blood, sweat and tears syn
率兽食人 率獸食人 shuài shòu shí rén lit. to lead beasts to eat the people (idiom) / fig. tyrannical government oppresses the people
听见风就是雨 聽見風就是雨 tīng jiàn fēng jiù shì yǔ lit. on hearing wind, to say rain / to agree uncritically with whatever people say / to parrot other people's words / to chime in with others
解民倒悬 解民倒懸 jiě mín dào xuán lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius) / to save the people from dire straits
薰莸不同器 薰蕕不同器 xūn yóu bù tóng qì lit. fragrant herbs and foul herbs do not go into the same vessel (idiom) / bad people and good people do not mix
知人善任 zhī rén shàn rèn (idiom) expert at appointing people according to their abilities / to put the right people in the right places
尊贤爱物 尊賢愛物 zūn xián ài wù to honor the wise and love the people / respecting noble talent while protecting the common people
河洛人 hé luò rén Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
萨米人 薩米人 sà mǐ rén the Sami people, indigenous people in northern Scandinavia
认人 認人 rèn rén to recognize people (of babies) / to be able to tell people apart
鹤佬人 鶴佬人 hè lǎo rén Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
森林居民 sēn lín jū mín forest people / forest-dwelling people
民间和平进程 people-to-people peace process
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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