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"one whole night" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
一宿 yī xiǔ one whole night / all night
Chinese Pinyin Translation
星夜 xīng yè starlit night / by night / under the night sky / through the night syn
整体 整體 zhěng tǐ whole entity / entire body / synthesis / as a whole (situation, construction, team etc) / global / macrocosm / integral / holistic / whole syn
整夜 zhěng yè the whole night / all through the night syn
一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥 yī lì lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō zhōu lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤 一顆老鼠屎壞了一鍋湯 yī kē lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō tāng lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
鞠躬尽瘁，死而后已 鞠躬盡瘁，死而後已 jū gōng jìn cuì , sǐ ér hòu yǐ to bend to a task and spare no effort unto one's dying day (idiom) / striving to the utmost one's whole life / with every breath in one's body, unto one's dying day
一世 yī shì generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings) syn
牵一发而动全身 牽一髮而動全身 qiān yī fà ér dòng quán shēn lit. pulling a single hair makes the whole body move (idiom) / fig. a small change in one part can affect the whole system
抱头 抱頭 bào tóu to put one's hands behind one's head, fingers interlaced / to hold one's head in one's hands (in dismay, fright etc) / to cover one's head with one's hands (for protection)
一面 yī miàn one side / one aspect / simultaneously... (and...) / one's whole face syn
天下 tiān xià land under heaven / the whole world / the whole of China / realm / rule syn
全场 全場 quán chǎng everyone present / the whole audience / across-the-board / unanimously / whole duration (of a competition or match)
全线 全線 quán xiàn the whole front (in a war) / the whole length (of a road or railway line)
全本 quán běn whole edition / whole performance (of Chinese opera)
成日 chéng rì all day long / the whole day / the whole time syn
整 zhěng (bound form) whole / complete / entire / (before a measure word) whole / (before or after number + measure word) exactly / (bound form) in good order / tidy / neat / (bound form) to put in order / to straighten / (bound form) to repair / to mend / to renovate / (coll.) to fix sb / to give sb a hard time / to mess with sb / (dialect) to tinker with / to do sth to syn
格斯塔 gé sī tǎ Gestalt (loanword) / coherent whole / technical word used in psychology meaning the whole is more than the sum of its parts / holistic / integrated / total / also written 格式塔
联合国合办工作人员养恤基金全基金审查 Whole Office Review of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund / Whole Office Review
全基金审查 Whole Office Review of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund / Whole Office Review
拉丁美洲和加勒比经济委员会全体委员会 拉丁美洲和加勒比經濟委員會全體委員會 Committee of the Whole of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean / ECLAC Committee of the Whole
拉加经委会全体委员会 拉加經委會全體委員會 Committee of the Whole of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean / ECLAC Committee of the Whole
玩遍 wán biàn to visit (a large number of places) / to tour around (the whole country, the whole city etc)
一路上 yī lù shàng along the way / the whole way / (fig.) the whole time
彻夜 徹夜 chè yè the whole night syn
打通宵 dǎ tōng xiāo to spend the whole night
夜里 夜裡 yè li during the night / at night / nighttime syn
傍晚 bàng wǎn in the evening / when night falls / towards evening / at night fall / at dusk syn
夜色 yè sè night scene / the dim light of night syn
通宵 tōng xiāo all night / throughout the night syn
连夜 連夜 lián yè that very night / through the night / for several nights in a row syn
夜行 yè xíng night walk / night departure / nocturnal
当夜 當夜 dàng yè that very night / the same night syn
夜游 夜遊 yè yóu to go to some place at night / to take a night trip to (a place) / to sleepwalk
三更半夜 sān gēng bàn yè in the depth of the night / very late at night syn
半夜三更 bàn yè sān gēng in the depth of night / late at night syn
守夜 shǒu yè to be on all-night duty / to be on night watch / to keep a vigil syn
通宵达旦 通宵達旦 tōng xiāo dá dàn overnight until daybreak (idiom) / all night long / day and night syn
夜阑人静 夜闌人靜 yè lán rén jìng the still of the night (idiom) / late at night syn
人定 rén dìng middle of the night / the dead of night
夜阑 夜闌 yè lán late at night / in the dead of night
宵征 xiāo zhēng night journey / punitive expedition by night
挑灯夜战 挑燈夜戰 tiǎo dēng yè zhàn to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom) / fig. to work into the night / to burn the midnight oil syn
更鼓 gēng gǔ drum marking night watches / night watchman's clapper
没日没夜 沒日沒夜 méi rì méi yè day and night / regardless of the time of day or night syn
连宵 連宵 lián xiāo the same night / that very night / successive nights
夜视装置 yè shì zhuāng zhì night observation device / night vision device
夜视瞄准具 夜視瞄准具 yè shì miáo zhǔn jù night-viewing weapon sight / night-vision weapon sight
三更半夜 sān gēng - bàn yè (idiom) in the depth of the night / very late at night syn
大夜 dà yè the second half of the night / early morning (cf. 小夜[xiao3ye4], evening) / (fig.) eternal rest / death / (Buddhism) the night before the cremation of a monk
小年夜 xiǎo nián yè (coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve / (Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (either lunisolar or Gregorian) / (old) Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd or 24th of the 12th lunisolar month, when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god)
夤夜 yín yè (literary) late at night / in the dead of night
竖起 豎起 shù qǐ to erect (a tent etc) / to prick up (one's ears) / to raise (one's eyebrows) / to stick up (one's thumb) / to turn up (one's collar) / (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers) syn
本分 běn fèn (to play) one's part / one's role / one's duty / (to stay within) one's bounds / dutiful / keeping to one's role syn
改口 gǎi kǒu to change one's tune / to modify one's previous remark / to change the way one addresses sb (as when one marries and starts to call one's husband's parents 爸爸[ba4 ba5] and 媽媽|妈妈[ma1 ma5]) syn
虚岁 虛歲 xū suì one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]
百胜难虑敌，三折乃良医 百勝難慮敵，三折乃良醫 bǎi shèng nán lǜ dí , sān zhé nǎi liáng yī (a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡[Liu2 Yu3 xi1]) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor / (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes
一 yī one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire / whole / all / throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit syn
一网打尽 一網打盡 yī wǎng dǎ jìn lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom) / fig. to scoop up the whole lot / to capture them all in one go syn
满心 滿心 mǎn xīn one's whole heart / from the bottom of one's heart syn
化整为零 化整為零 huà zhěng wéi líng to break up the whole into pieces (idiom) / dealing with things one by one / divide and conquer
以身报国 以身報國 yǐ shēn bào guó to give one's body for the nation (idiom) / to spend one's whole life in the service of the country
死而后已 死而後已 sǐ ér hòu yǐ until death puts an end (idiom) / one's whole life / unto one's dying day syn
一马勺坏一锅 一馬勺壞一鍋 yī mǎ sháo huài yī guō one ladle (of sth bad) spoils the (whole) pot (idiom) / one bad apple spoils the barrel
只有 zhǐ yǒu only have ... / there is only ... / (used in combination with 才[cai2]) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 只有通過治療才能痊愈|只有通过治疗才能痊愈[zhi3 you3 tong1 guo4 zhi4 liao2 cai2 neng2 quan2 yu4] "the only way to cure it is with therapy") / it is only ... (who ...) (Example: 只有男性才有此需要[zhi3 you3 nan2 xing4 cai2 you3 ci3 xu1 yao4] "only men would have such a requirement") / (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 只有屈服[zhi3 you3 qu1 fu2] "the only thing you can do is give in") syn
归属 歸屬 guī shǔ to belong to / to be affiliated to / to fall under the jurisdiction of / a place where one feels that one belongs / one's final destination (where one need look no further) syn
上头 上頭 shàng tóu (of alcohol, love etc) to go to one’s head / (of an idea, a song etc) to get into one's head / to capture one's attention / (old) (of a girl on her wedding day) to start wearing one's hair in a bun (rather than a plait) syn
量力而行 liàng lì ér xíng to assess one's capabilities and act accordingly (idiom) / to act within one's competence / One does what one can.
望子成龙 望子成龍 wàng zǐ chéng lóng lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom) / fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life / to have great hopes for one's offspring / to give one's child the best education as a career investment syn
孝悌忠信 xiào tì zhōng xìn Confucian moral injunctions of fidelity / piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends
戴盆望天 dài pén wàng tiān lit. viewing the sky with a basin on one's head / it is hard to get a clear view of the sky while carrying a platter on one's head / fig. it is hard to get on in one's career while encumbered by family obligations / one can't perform a major task while bothered by other duties syn
量力而为 量力而為 liàng lì ér wéi to weigh one's abilities and act accordingly / to act according to one's means / to cut one's coat according to one's cloth
一个个 一個個 yī gè gè a number of / each and every one / one by one / one after another
一一映射 yī yī yìng shè bijective map (i.e. map between sets in math. that is one-to-one and onto) / one-to-one correspondence
四德 sì dé four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德[de2], physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功
深藏若虚 深藏若虛 shēn cáng ruò xū to hide one's treasure away so that no-one knows about it (idiom) / fig. modest about one's talents / to hide one's light under a bushel syn
道高一尺，魔高一丈 dào gāo yī chǐ , mó gāo yī zhàng (idiom) as one climbs higher on the path of righteousness, one faces ever greater challenges from evil / no sooner does one overcome one obstacle than another arises
一村一品 yī cūn yī pǐn One Village One Product / One Village One Product Movement
剃头挑子一头热 剃頭挑子一頭熱 tì tóu tiāo zi yī tóu rè lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom) / fig. one-sided enthusiasm / one party is interested, but the other, not so much / (Note: In former days, street barbers carried their equipment on a pole, with tools and a stool at one end and a brazier at the other.)
屁股决定脑袋 屁股決定腦袋 pì gu jué dìng nǎo dai lit. the butt governs the head (idiom) / fig. where one stands depends on where one sits / one's views are shaped by one's circumstances
端起碗吃肉，放下筷子骂娘 端起碗吃肉，放下筷子罵娘 duān qǐ wǎn chī ròu , fàng xià kuài zi mà niáng lit. to eat meat from one's bowl, then put down one's chopsticks and scold one's mother (idiom) / fig. to complain despite being privileged / to be ungrateful for what one has been given
背着抱着一般重 bēi zhe bào zhe yī bān zhòng lit. whether one carries it on one's back or in one's arms, it's equally heavy (idiom) / fig. one can't avoid the burden
一对一 一對一 yī duì yī one-to-one / one-on-one syn
一周 yī zhōu one week / all the way around / a whole cycle
满脸 滿臉 mǎn liǎn across one's whole face syn
满面 滿面 mǎn miàn across one's whole face / (smiling) from ear to ear
生平 shēng píng life (a person's whole life) / in one's entire life syn
满月 滿月 mǎn yuè full moon / whole month / baby's one-month old birthday syn
有生以来 有生以來 yǒu shēng yǐ lái since birth / for one's whole life syn
毕其功于一役 畢其功于一役 bì qí gōng yú yī yì to accomplish the whole task at one stroke (idiom) syn
仰屋著书 仰屋著書 yǎng wū zhù shū lit. to stare at the ceiling while writing a book (idiom) / to put one's whole body and soul into a book
合而为一 合而為一 hé ér wéi yī to merge together (idiom) / to unify disparate elements into one whole syn
威凤一羽 威鳳一羽 wēi fèng yī yǔ lit. one phoenix feather / fig. a glimpse that reveals the whole
独霸一方 獨霸一方 dú bà yī fāng to exercise sole hegemony (idiom) / to dominate a whole area (market, resources etc) / to hold as one's personal fiefdom
略见一斑 略見一斑 lüè jiàn yī bān lit. to glimpse just one spot (of the leopard) (idiom) / fig. to get an inkling of the whole picture syn
一着不慎，满盘皆输 一著不慎，滿盤皆輸 yī zhāo bù shèn , mǎn pán jiē shū One careless move and the whole game is lost. (idiom)
覆巢之下无完卵 覆巢之下無完卵 fù cháo zhī xià wú wán luǎn lit. when the nest is upset no egg is left intact (idiom) / fig. when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed
一个 一個 yī ge a / an / one / the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
更 gēng to change or replace / to experience / one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided / watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard) syn
俾昼作夜 俾晝作夜 bǐ zhòu zuò yè to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs) / fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
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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