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"old worm-eaten books" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
蠹简 蠹簡 dù jiǎn old worm-eaten books
Chinese Pinyin Translation
蠹 dù insect that eats into books, clothing etc / moth-eaten / worm-eaten syn
蜗杆副 蝸桿副 wō gǎn fù worm-gear pair / worm drive / worm and worm gear
蠹蛀 dù zhù to be moth-eaten / to be worm-eaten
蚛 zhòng (literary) (of a worm or insect) to nibble / to bite / worm-eaten
霉蠹 méi dù to become mildewed and worm-eaten (of books) / to mildew and rot
海肠子 海腸子 hǎi cháng zi (coll.) marine worm resembling intestines such as the spoon worm (echiuroid) or the peanut worm (Sipunculus nudus)
户枢不蠹 戶樞不蠹 hù shū bù dù lit. a door hinge never becomes worm-eaten / constant activity prevents decay (idiom) syn
管圆线虫 管圓線蟲 guǎn yuán xiàn chóng "eel worm", a parasitic worm carrying meningitis
计算机蠕虫 計算机蠕虫 jì suàn jī rú chóng computer worm / worm
丛书 叢書 cóng shū a series of books / a collection of books syn
书本 書本 shū běn book (chiefly used to refer to a plurality of books or books in general) syn
汗牛充栋 汗牛充棟 hàn niú chōng dòng lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom) / fig. many books syn
做账 做賬 zuò zhàng to keep the books / to do the accounts / (in context) to cook the books
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
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
汤圆 湯圓 tāng yuán boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival syn
吃法 chī fǎ way of eating / how something is eaten / how a dish is prepared / the way a dish is to be cooked
蟹黄 蟹黃 xiè huáng the ovary and digestive glands of a female crab (eaten as a delicacy)
糟糠 zāo kāng chaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor) / (fig.) rubbish / junk / (abbr. for 糟糠妻[zao1 kang1 qi1]) wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband syn
腊八粥 臘八粥 là bā zhōu Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar
酒足饭饱 酒足飯飽 jiǔ zú fàn bǎo to have eaten and drunk to one's heart's content
旡 jì choke on something eaten
朽蠹 xiǔ dù to decay and be eaten by worms etc / to overhoard grain so that it rots
饱绽 飽綻 bǎo zhàn to swell to bursting (after having eaten too much)
下酒菜 xià jiǔ cài dish that goes well with alcoholic drinks / snack eaten with drinks
手抓羊肉 shǒu zhuā yáng ròu hand-held mutton (mutton pieces on the bone, eaten with the fingers)
毛鸭蛋 毛鴨蛋 máo yā dàn balut (boiled duck egg with a partly-developed embryo, which is eaten from the shell)
鸭仔蛋 鴨仔蛋 yā zǐ dàn balut (boiled duck egg with a partly-developed embryo, which is eaten from the shell)
𩠌 餸 sòng dish of food, usu. to be eaten with rice (Cantonese)
钻故纸堆 鑽故紙堆 zuān gù zhǐ duī to dig into piles of outdated writings (idiom) / to study old books and papers
阿摩司书 阿摩司書 ā mó sī shū Book of Amos, one of the books of the Nevi'im and of the Christian Old Testament
摩西五经 摩西五經 mó xī wǔ jīng the Pentateuch / the five books of Moses in the Old Testament
故纸堆 故紙堆 gù zhǐ duī a pile of old books
芸帙 yún zhì (old) books
芸编 芸編 yún biān (old) books
环节 環節 huán jié (zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc) / (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc syn
虫子 蟲子 chóng zi insect / bug / worm / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1] syn
蠕虫 蠕蟲 rú chóng worm
捷足先登 jié zú xiān dēng the quick-footed climb up first (idiom) / the early bird catches the worm / first come, first served syn
套话 套話 tào huà polite phrase / conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb
蜗杆 蝸杆 wō gǎn worm (mechanical engineering)
环带 環帶 huán dài clitellum (worm anatomy)
吸虫 吸蟲 xī chóng trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, approx 6000 species, mostly parasite, incl. on humans
蛲虫 蟯蟲 náo chóng parasitic worm / human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)
萤 螢 yíng firefly / glow-worm syn
蜷 quán to curl up (like a scroll) / to huddle / Melania libertina / wriggle (as a worm) syn
蚩 chī ignorant / worm syn
蠲 juān to deduct / to show / bright and clean / glow-worm / galleyworm / millipede syn
蜮 yù mythical creature / toad / worm
蛲 蟯 náo parasitic worm / human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)
肙 yuān a small worm / to twist / to surround / empty
环节动物 環節動物 huán jié dòng wù annelid (worm)
螠 yì echiuroid (spoon worm)
穷鼠啮狸 窮鼠嚙狸 qióng shǔ niè lí a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom) / the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
豸 zhì worm-like invertebrate / mythical animal (see 獬豸[xie4 zhi4]) / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 153)
虷 gān worm
吸虫纲 吸蟲綱 xī chóng gāng Class Trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, a parasite incl. on humans
尺蠖 chǐ huò looper caterpillar, larva of moth in family Geometridae / inch worm
沙蚕 沙蠶 shā cán genus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm
灭虫宁 滅蟲寧 miè chóng nìng bephenium, anti-parasitic worm medicine
粘虫 粘蟲 nián chóng army worm (e.g. Mythimna separata or Leucania separata etc, major cereal pests)
蟠尾丝虫 蟠尾絲蟲 pán wěi sī chóng Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans
蟠尾丝虫症 蟠尾絲蟲症 pán wěi sī chóng zhèng "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus
复殖吸虫 複殖吸蟲 fù zhí xī chóng digenetic trematode worm (i.e. from Order Digenea 複殖目|复殖目)
套近乎 tào jìn hū to worm one's way into being friends with sb (usually derogatory) syn
麦地那龙线虫 Guinea worm / Dracunculus medinensis
柱头虫 acorn worm
麦地那龙线虫病 麥地那龍線蟲病 Guinea worm disease / dracunculiasis
螺旋锥蝇行动组 螺旋錐蠅行動組 Screw-worm Action Group
多毛虫 多毛蟲 tube worm
蠉 xuān wriggler / mosquito larva / to crawl / to worm along
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
图书 圖書 tú shū books (in a library or bookstore) / CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4] syn
灌水 guàn shuǐ to irrigate / to pour water into / to inject water into meat to increase its weight (plumping) / to cook the books / to post low-value messages (small talk etc) on Internet forums
书库 書庫 shū kù a store room for books / fig. an erudite person / the Bibliotheca and Epitome of pseudo-Apollodorus
书籍 書籍 shū jí books / works syn
书刊 書刊 shū kān books and periodicals / publications syn
借阅 借閱 jiè yuè to borrow books to read
秘笈 mì jí secret book or collection of books
装订 裝訂 zhuāng dìng bookbinding / to bind (books etc) syn
藏书 藏書 cáng shū to collect books / library collection
古籍 gǔ jí ancient text / antique books syn
借书 借書 jiè shū borrow books
出纳 出納 chū nà cashier / to receive and hand over payment / to lend and borrow books syn
出书 出書 chū shū to publish books
翻看 fān kàn to browse / to look over (books) syn
典籍 diǎn jí ancient books or records syn
经书 經書 jīng shū classic books in Confucianism / scriptures / sutras 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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