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"sleeping sickness" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
昏睡病 hūn shuì bìng sleeping sickness / African trypanosomiasis / see also 非洲錐蟲病|非洲锥虫病[Fei1 zhou1 zhui1 chong2 bing4]
非洲锥虫病 非洲錐蟲病 fēi zhōu zhuī chóng bìng sleeping sickness / African trypanosomiasis
Chinese Pinyin Translation
疾病 jí bìng disease / sickness / ailment syn
安眠药 安眠藥 ān mián yào sleeping pill / CL:粒[li4] syn
睡袋 shuì dài sleeping bag
熟睡 shú shuì asleep / sleeping soundly syn
睡美人 shuì měi rén Sleeping Beauty
卧房 臥房 wò fáng bedroom / a sleeping compartment (on a train) syn
落枕 lào zhěn to have a stiff neck after sleeping / (of the head) to touch the pillow
酣畅 酣暢 hān chàng unrestrained / cheerful lack of inhibition, esp. for drinking or sleeping / to drink with abandon syn
酣暢 酣畅 hān chàng unrestrained / cheerful lack of inhibition, esp. for drinking or sleeping / to drink with abandon
睡相 shuì xiàng sleeping posture
睡姿 shuì zī sleeping posture
凉席 涼席 liáng xí summer sleeping mat (e.g. of woven split bamboo) / CL:張|张[zhang1],領|领[ling3] syn
蒙胧 矇矓 méng lóng drowsy / half-asleep / half sleeping, half waking syn
积劳成疾 積勞成疾 jī láo chéng jí to accumulate work causes sickness (idiom) / to fall ill from constant overwork syn
卧车 臥車 wò chē (railroad) sleeping car syn
闹 鬧 nào noisy / cacophonous / to make noise / to disturb / to vent (feelings) / to fall ill / to have an attack (of sickness) / to go in (for some activity) / to joke syn
恙 yàng sickness syn
讳疾忌医 諱疾忌醫 huì jí jì yī hiding a sickness for fear of treatment (idiom) / fig. concealing a fault to avoid criticism / to keep one's shortcomings secret / to refuse to listen to advice syn
害喜 hài xǐ to react to pregnancy by experiencing morning sickness or a strong appetite for certain foods syn
运动病 運動病 yùn dòng bìng car sickness / motion sickness
孕吐 yùn tù morning sickness (during pregnancy) syn
瘼 mò distress / sickness syn
断袖之癖 斷袖之癖 duàn xiù zhī pǐ lit. cut sleeve (idiom) / fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書|汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve.
眷眷之心 juàn juàn zhī xīn nostalgia / home-sickness / longing for departed beloved
高山症 高山癥 gāo shān zhèng altitude sickness / acute mountain sickness
高山病 gāo shān bìng altitude sickness / acute mountain sickness syn
高原反应 高原反應 gāo yuán fǎn yìng altitude sickness / acute mountain sickness / abbr. to 高反[gao1 fan3]
轏 zhàn chariot for sleeping and conveyance
宰予昼寝 宰予晝寢 zǎi yǔ zhòu qǐn Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom) / refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures
棕绷 棕繃 zōng bēng rectangular frame with a palm fiber mat woven across it (placed on a bed frame as the sleeping surface)
卧舱 臥艙 wò cāng sleeping cabin on a boat or train
卧龙 臥龍 wò lóng sleeping dragon / (fig.) a person of outstanding talent who lives in obscurity
迷魂香 mí hún xiāng a kind of sleeping gas or smoke used by thieves to incapacitate victims
秘密同伙 mì mì tòng huǒ secret partner / sleeping partner / silent partner
认床 認床 rèn chuáng to have difficulties sleeping in a bed other than one's own
辒辌 轀輬 wēn liáng (sleeping) carriage / hearse
床笫 chuáng zǐ bed and bamboo sleeping mat / (fig.) bed as a place for intimacy
隔壁老王 gé bì lǎo wáng Mr Wang from next door (term used jocularly to refer to a neighbor who is supposedly sleeping with one's wife)
酣梦 酣夢 hān mèng sweet dream / sleeping soundly syn
瞌睡虫 瞌睡蟲 kē shuì chóng mythological insect that makes people doze off / (fig.) drowsiness / (coll.) person who loves sleeping / sleepaholic
接盘 接盤 jiē pán (of an entrepreneur) to buy up a struggling business / (finance) to snap up shares sold off by others / (neologism) (slang) to take as a girlfriend a woman who was dumped by her ex for sleeping around
靴子落地 xuē zi luò dì lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
和衣 hé yī with one's clothes on (when sleeping)
疒 nè sick / sickness / Kang Xi radical 104 / also pr. [chuang2]
殗 yè sickness / repeated
八苦 bā kǔ the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)
害月子 hài yuè zi morning sickness (in pregnancy)
放射病 fàng shè bìng radiation sickness
减压病 減壓病 jiǎn yā bìng decompression sickness / the bends / also 減壓症|减压症[jian3 ya1 zheng4]
减压症 減壓症 jiǎn yā zhèng decompression sickness / the bends / also 減壓病|减压病[jian3 ya1 bing4]
病来如山倒，病去如抽丝 病來如山倒，病去如抽絲 bìng lái rú shān dǎo , bìng qù rú chōu sī sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom) / expect to convalesce slowly
高空病 gāo kōng bìng high altitude sickness
黄脸 黃臉 huáng liǎn yellow face (due to sickness etc) / yellow-skinned people
农业工人疾病保险公约 Convention concerning Sickness Insurance for Agricultural Workers
海员疾病保险公约 Convention concerning Sickness Insurance for Seamen
运动病，晕机病，晕动病 運動病，暈機病，暈動病 motion sickness
工商业工人及家庭佣工疾病保险公约 工商業工人及家庭傭工疾病保險公約 Convention concerning Sickness Insurance for Workers in Industry and Commerce and Domestic Servants
医疗和疾病津贴公约 醫療和疾病津貼公約 Convention concerning Medical Care and Sickness Benefits
空间综合征 空間綜合征 space sickness
非洲马病 非洲馬病 African horse sickness
急性放射病 acute radiation sickness / acute radiation syndrome
蜱咬病 pí yǎo bìng tick-bite sickness / informal term for 發熱伴血小板減少綜合徵|发热伴血小板减少综合征[fa1 re4 ban4 xue4 xiao3 ban3 jian3 shao3 zong1 he2 zheng1]
高反 gāo fǎn altitude sickness / abbr. for 高原反應|高原反应[gao1 yuan2 fan3 ying4]
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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