"steam locomotive" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 蒸汽机车 蒸汽機車 | steam locomotive |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 蒸汽 | steam | syn | |
| 机动 機動 | locomotive / motorized / power-driven / adaptable / flexible (use, treatment, timing etc) | syn | |
| 机车 機車 | locomotive / train engine car / (Tw) scooter / (Tw) (slang) hard to get along with / to be a pain in the ass / (Tw) damn! / crap! | syn | |
| 喷气 噴氣 | to spurt steam (or air etc) | syn | |
| 汽笛 | steam whistle / ship horn | ||
| 热气 熱氣 | steam / heat / CL:股[gu3] | syn | |
| 驾驶室 駕駛室 | cab (of a locomotive, truck etc) / driver's compartment / wheelhouse | ||
| 火车头 火車頭 | train engine / locomotive | syn | |
| 蒸气 蒸氣 | vapor / steam | syn | |
| 汽缸 | cylinder (of steam engine or internal combustion engine) | ||
| 鸣叫 鳴叫 | to emit a sound / (of birds, insects etc) to chirp, hoot etc / (of a siren, steam whistle etc) to sound | syn | |
| 熏蒸 燻蒸 | (of sultry weather) to be stifling / (TCM) to treat a disease with fumes generated by burning medicinal herbs or with steam generated by boiling herbs / to fumigate | syn | |
| 回笼 回籠 | to steam again / to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer / to withdraw currency from circulation | syn | |
| 水汽 | water vapor / steam / moisture | syn | |
| 蒸汽机 蒸汽機 | steam engine | syn | |
| 汽轮机 汽輪機 | steam turbine | syn | |
| 机务段 機務段 | locomotive depot | ||
| 司炉 司爐 | stoker (worker operating a coal fire, esp. for a steam engine) | syn | |
| 水气 水氣 | water vapor / steam | ||
| 吐气 吐氣 | to exhale / to blow off steam / (phonetics) aspirated | ||
| 万马奔腾 萬馬奔騰 | lit. (like) ten thousand horses galloping (idiom) / fig. going full steam ahead | syn | |
| 蒸 | to evaporate / (of cooking) to steam / torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old) / finely chopped firewood (old) | syn | |
| 汽 | steam / vapor | syn | |
| 馏 餾 | to steam / to cook in a steamer / to reheat cold food by steaming it | syn | |
| 汽轮发电机 汽輪發電機 | steam turbine electric generator | ||
| 液态水 液態水 | liquid water (as opposed to steam or ice) | ||
| 机关车 機關車 | locomotive | ||
| 电力机车 電力機車 | electric locomotive | ||
| 柴电机车 柴電機車 | diesel-electric locomotive | ||
| 歊 | vapor / steam | ||
| 伴热 伴熱 | electric heat tracing / steam tracing (for maintaining the temperature of pipes etc) | ||
| 水汀 | steam (Shanghainese) | ||
| 汽阀 汽閥 | steam valve | ||
| 焗 | (dialect) to cook in salt or sand, inside a sealed pot / to steam / to bake | ||
| 蒸气重整 蒸氣重整 | steam reforming (chemistry) | ||
| 锅驼机 鍋駝機 | portable steam engine | ||
| 蒸汽炮 | steam-gun / Vaporchoc | ||
| 短焰煤 | steam coal | ||
| 锅炉煤 | steam coal | ||
| 饙 | to steam rice | ||
| 水波炉 水波爐 | superheated steam oven | ||
| 失去后劲 失去後勁 | to peter out / to lose momentum / to lose steam |