"tectonic setting" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
构造背景 gòu zào bèi jǐng tectonic setting
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
场景 場景 chǎng jǐng scene / scenario / situation / setting syn
场合 場合 chǎng hé situation / occasion / context / setting / location / venue syn
设定 設定 shè dìng to set / to set up / to install / setting / preferences
构造 構造 gòu zào structure / composition / tectonic (geology) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
夕阳 夕陽 xī yáng sunset / the setting sun syn
默认 默認 mò rèn to agree tacitly / tacit approval / default (setting)
板块 板塊 bǎn kuài slab / (geology) tectonic plate / (fig.) sector (of the stock market or of industry) / (economic) bloc
落日 luò rì setting sun syn
情境 qíng jìng situation / context / setting / environment syn
斜阳 斜陽 xié yáng setting sun syn
夕照 xī zhào glow of the setting sun syn
德治 dé zhì rule by virtue / rule by setting virtuous example (Confucian ideal)
背景音乐 背景音樂 bèi jǐng yīn yuè background music (BGM) / soundtrack / musical setting
缺省 quē shěng default (setting)
先进集体 先進集體 xiān jìn jí tǐ (official accolade) pace-setting team / exemplary group
掩映 yǎn yìng hidden from view / alternately hidden and visible / setting off each other syn
横排 héng pái horizontal setting (printing) syn
课间操 課間操 kè jiān cāo setting-up exercises during the break (between classes)
余光 餘光 yú guāng (out of) the corner of one's eyes / peripheral vision / residual light / light of the setting sun
招股书 招股書 zhāo gǔ shū prospectus (setting out a share offer)
(arch.) religious ritual on setting out for war
问罪之师 問罪之師 wèn zuì zhī shī punitive force / a person setting out to deliver severe reproach
回光反照 huí guāng fǎn zhào final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)
回光返照 huí guāng fǎn zhào final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)
东兔西乌 東兔西烏 dōng tù xī wū lit. the sun setting and the moon rising (idiom) / fig. the passage of time
构造运动 構造運動 gòu zào yùn dòng tectonic movement / movement of earth's crust
潜没 潛沒 qián mò to submerge / to subduct (of tectonic plates)
构造加积 构造加積 gòu zào jiā jī tectonic accretion
构造增生 gòu zào zēng shēng tectonic accretion
构造板块 構造板塊 tectonic plate / lithospheric plate
挡位 擋位 dǎng wèi (in a manual car) gear (i.e. reverse, neutral, 1st, 2nd etc) / (automatic car) transmission mode (P, R, N, D etc) / (electric fan, cooker etc) setting / mode
九份 jiǔ fèn Jiufen (or Jioufen or Chiufen), mountainside town in north Taiwan, former gold mining town, used as the setting for two well-known movies
制定标准 制定標準 zhì dìng biāo zhǔn standard-setting
确定目标 确定目標 què dìng mù biāo target-setting
采伐单元 采伐單元 cutting unit / setting
初始组 初始組 setting-out party
收入补助 收入補助 off-setting income support
规范和标准制定措施 規範和標準制定措施 norm- and standard-setting measures
制定国家残疾人政策 -行动议程国际会议 制定國家殘疾人政策 -行動議程國際會議 International Conference on Setting National Disability Policies - An Agenda for Action
初始通道 setting-out lane
碰瓷 pèng cí (coll.) to scam sb by setting up an "accident" in which one appears to have sustained damage or injury caused by the scam victim, then demanding compensation (variations include putting "expensive" porcelain in a place where it is likely to be knocked over by passers-by, and stepping into the path of a slow-moving car)
孤男寡女 gū nán guǎ nǚ a single man and a single woman / bachelors / a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)
崦嵫 yān zī (old) name of a mountain in Gansu, where the setting sun was supposed to enter the earth
直排 zhí pái vertical setting (printing)
择日不如撞日 擇日不如撞日 zé rì bù rú zhuàng rì lit. carefully setting an auspicious date does not beat seizing an opportunity (idiom) / fig. seize the occasion
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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