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"the Old World" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
旧大陆 舊大陸 jiù dà lù the Old World / Eurasia as opposed to the New World 新大陸|新大陆[xin1 da4 lu4] or the Americas
东半球 東半球 dōng bàn qiú the Eastern Hemisphere / the Old World
Chinese Pinyin Translation
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
人世 rén shì the world / this world / the world of the living syn
减少自然灾害世界会议 減少自然災害世界會議 World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction - A Safer World for the 21st Century / World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction
新大陆 新大陸 xīn dà lù the New World / the Americas as opposed to the Old World 舊大陸|旧大陆[jiu4 da4 lu4] or Eurasia syn
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
下方 xià fāng underneath / below / the underside / world of mortals / to descend to the world of mortals (of gods) syn
世界各地 shì jiè gè dì all over the world / everywhere / in all parts of the world
乱世 亂世 luàn shì the world in chaos / troubled times / (in Buddhism) the mortal world syn
世界第一 shì jiè dì yī ranked number one in the world / the world's first
举世 舉世 jǔ shì throughout the world / world ranking (e.g. first) syn
世尊 shì zūn World Honored One / Revered One of the World (Buddha)
大千世界 大韆世界 dà qiān shì jiè great wide world / marvelously diverse world / (Buddhism) cosmos (abbr. for 三千大千世界[san1 qian1 da4 qian1 shi4 jie4]) syn
俗世 sú shì the mundane world / the world of mortals
下界 xià jiè lower bound (math.) / world of mortals / (of gods) to descend to the world of mortals
人情世故 rén qíng shì gù worldly wisdom / the ways of the world / to know how to get on in the world syn
人寰 rén huán world / earthly world
浊世 濁世 zhuó shì the world in chaos / troubled times / the mortal world (Buddhism) syn
四海为家 四海為家 sì hǎi wéi jiā to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own syn
看破红尘 看破紅塵 kān pò hóng chén to see through the world of mortals (idiom, of Buddhist monk) / disillusioned with human society / to reject the world for a monastic life syn
花花世界 huā huā shì jiè the teeming world / the world of sensual pleasures syn
世界最大 shì jiè zuì dà world's largest / world's biggest
世局 shì jú the world situation / the state of the world
世界水日 shì jiè shuǐ rì World Day for Water / World Water Day
世界植物遗传资源状况 State of the World's Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture / State of the World's Plant Genetic Resources
世界促进母乳喂养行动联盟 World Alliance for Breast-feeding Action / World Alliance for Breastfeeding
世界水设想－大家的共同事务 World Water Vision - Making Water Everybody's Business / World Water Vision
第叁次妇女问题世界会议 第三次婦女問題世界會議 World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace / Third World Conference on Women
老龄问题世界大会非政府组织世界论坛 老齡問題世界大會非政府組織世界論壇 World Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations for the World Assembly on Aging
争取世界和平未来世界知识分子大会 爭取世界和平未來世界知識分子大會 World Congress of Intellectuals for a Peaceful Future of the World
建立一个无核武器世界世界会议 建立一個無核武器世界世界會議 World Conference for a Nuclear-free World
第一次世界气候大会 World Climate Conference - A Conference of Experts on Climate and Mankind / First World Climate Conference
世界文化发展日 世界文化發展日 World Day for Cultural Development / Day of All the World's Cultures
世界一切文化日 World Day for Cultural Development / Day of All the World's Cultures
保护世界文化和自然遗产公约 保護世界文化和自然遺產公約 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage / World Heritage Convention
世界遗产公约 世界遺產公約 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage / World Heritage Convention
世界遗产中心 世界遺產中心 UNESCO World Heritage Centre / World Heritage Centre
第四次妇女问题世界会议 第四次婦女問題世界會議 Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace / Fourth World Conference on Women
建立世界贸易组织协定 建立世界貿易組織協定 jiàn lì shì jiè mào yì zǔ zhī xié dìng Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO) / World Trade Organization Agreement
世贸组织协定 世貿組織協定 shì mào zǔ zhī xié dìng Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO) / World Trade Organization Agreement
世界联合会世界协会 世界聯合會世界協會 World Association for World Federation
机构间工作领域工作组 機構間工作領域工作組 Inter-Agency Task Team on the World of Work / IATT on the World of Work
世界法治促进和平会议 世界法治促進和平會議 World Conference on World Peace through Law
联合国系统世界青年论坛 聯合國系統世界青年論壇 World Youth Forum of the United Nations System / World Youth Forum
世界青年论坛 世界青年論壇 World Youth Forum of the United Nations System / World Youth Forum
世界女童子军协会世界会议 世界女童子軍協會世界會議 World Conference of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
世界联邦主义者世界协会 世界聯邦主義者世界協會 World Association of World Federalists
二人世界 èr rén shì jiè world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple) / romantic couple's world
世界性古老问题 世界性古老問題 shì jiè xìng gǔ lǎo wèn tí a problem as old as the world itself
世运 世運 shì yùn World Games (abbr. for 世界運動會|世界运动会[Shi4jie4 Yun4dong4hui4]) / (old) (Tw, HK) Olympic Games
博士 bó shì doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician
小子 xiǎo zǐ (literary) youngster / (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation) / (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders) syn
老头 老頭 lǎo tóu old fellow / old man / father / husband syn
古老 gǔ lǎo ancient / old / age-old syn
打发 打發 dǎ fa to dispatch sb to do sth / to make sb leave / to pass (the time) / (old) to make arrangements / (old) to bestow (alms etc) syn
老头子 老頭子 lǎo tóu zi (coll.) old man / (said of an aging husband) my old man syn
老将 老將 lǎo jiàng lit. old general / commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess / fig. old-timer / veteran syn
老汉 老漢 lǎo hàn old man / I (an old man referring to himself) syn
老家伙 老傢伙 lǎo jiā huo (coll.) old fellow / old codger syn
老式 lǎo shì old-fashioned / old type / outdated syn
古风 古風 gǔ fēng old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗[gu3 ti3 shi1] syn
喜新厌旧 喜新厭舊 xǐ xīn yàn jiù lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom) / fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old syn
食道 shí dào esophagus / gullet / (old) the proper way to eat / (old) food transportation route syn
白头偕老 白頭偕老 bái tóu xié lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom) / to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part syn
者 zhě (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this syn
寿终正寝 壽終正寢 shòu zhōng zhèng qǐn to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life syn
老态 老態 lǎo tài old and frail / decrepit / doddering / decrepitude / infirmities of old age syn
解 xiè acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old) / variant of 懈[xie4] and 邂[xie4] (old) syn
旧称 舊稱 jiù chēng old term / old way of referring to sth
宿怨 sù yuàn an old grudge / old scores to settle syn
士 shì member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker syn
京 jīng capital city of a country / big / algebraic term for a large number (old) / artificial mound (old) syn
老马识途 老馬識途 lǎo mǎ shí tú an old horse knows the way (idiom) / an experienced worker knows what to do / an old hand knows the ropes syn
州 zhōu prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland)
曹 cáo class or grade / generation / plaintiff and defendant (old) / government department (old) syn
牧 mù to herd / to breed livestock / to govern (old) / government official (old) syn
穆 mù solemn / reverent / calm / burial position in an ancestral tomb (old) / old variant of 默
卢 盧 lú (old) rice vessel / black / old variant of 廬|庐[lu2] / (slang) (Tw) troublesome / fussy
岂 豈 kǎi old variant of 愷|恺[kai3] / old variant of 凱|凯[kai3] syn
廉 lián incorruptible / honest / inexpensive / to investigate (old) / side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old) syn
蒸 zhēng to evaporate / (of cooking) to steam / torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old) / finely chopped firewood (old) syn
牟 móu barley / to moo / to seek or obtain / old variant of 侔[mou2] / old variant of 眸[mou2] syn
桢 楨 zhēn (old) privet (genus Ligustrum) / (bound form) (old) wooden support placed at the ends of a wall during construction / (fig.) mainstay / pillar / backbone
叟 sǒu old gentleman / old man syn
嬴 yíng old variant of 贏|赢[ying2], to win, to profit / old variant of 盈[ying2], full
邕 yōng city surrounded by a moat / old variant of 雍[yong1] / old variant of 壅[yong1]
姒 sì wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
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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