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"time is gold" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
一刻千金 yī kè qiān jīn time is gold / every minute counts syn
一刻千金 yī kè - qiān jīn (idiom) time is gold / every minute is precious syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴 一寸光陰一寸金，寸金難買寸光陰 yī cùn guāng yīn yī cùn jīn , cùn jīn nán mǎi cùn guāng yīn lit. an interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time (saying) / fig. time is precious
寸金难买寸光阴 寸金難買寸光陰 cùn jīn nán mǎi cùn guāng yīn An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom) / Money can't buy you time. / Time is precious.
时日 時日 shí rì time / auspicious time / time and date / long period of time / this day syn
限时 限時 xiàn shí to set a time limit / for a limited time / time-limited / limited period of time
时间是把杀猪刀 時間是把殺豬刀 shí jiān shì bǎ shā zhū dāo lit. time is a butcher's knife / fig. time marches on, relentless and unforgiving / nothing gold can stay
金矿 金礦 jīn kuàng gold mine / gold ore syn
金字 jīn zì gold lettering / gold characters
淘金者 táo jīn zhě gold panner / prospector for gold
足金 zú jīn pure gold / solid gold syn
镏金 鎦金 liú jīn gold-plating / gilded / gold-plated
纸黄金 紙黃金 zhǐ huáng jīn gold contract / special drawing right (SDR) / paper gold (finance)
黄金海岸 黃金海岸 huáng jīn hǎi àn name of various places including Gold Coast (Australian city), Gold Coast (former British colony in Africa) and Costa Daurada (area on the coast of Catalonia, Spain)
足赤 zú chì pure gold / solid gold
金银箔 金銀箔 jīn yín bó gold and silver foil / gold and silver leaf syn
开金 開金 kāi jīn carated gold (alloy containing stated proportion of gold)
时间 時間 shí jiān (concept of) time / (duration of) time / (point in) time syn
期间 期間 qī jiān period of time / time / time period / period / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
一向 yī xiàng a period of time in the recent past / (indicating a period of time up to the present) all along / the whole time syn
一度 yī dù for a time / at one time / one time / once syn
计时 計時 jì shí to measure time / to time / to reckon by time
久而久之 jiǔ ér jiǔ zhī over time / as time passes / in the fullness of time syn
天时 天時 tiān shí the time / the right time / weather conditions / destiny / course of time / heaven's natural order syn
走时 走時 zǒu shí (of a watch or clock) to keep time / (physics) propagation time / travel time (of a wave)
抓功夫 zhuā gōng fu to maximize one's time / to catch some time out / to find enough time / (also 抓工夫)
抓工夫 zhuā gōng fu to maximize one's time / to catch some time out / to find enough time / (also 抓功夫)
格林尼治平时 格林尼治平時 gé lín ní zhì píng shí Universal Coordinated Time / Greenwich Mean Time / Coordinated Universal Time
致死时间 致死時間 lethal time / survival time / time-to-death
黄金 黃金 huáng jīn gold / golden (opportunity) / prime (time) syn
时候 時候 shí hou time / length of time / moment / period syn
随时 隨時 suí shí at any time / at all times / at the right time / whenever necessary syn
首次 shǒu cì first / first time / for the first time syn
时刻 時刻 shí kè time / juncture / moment / period of time / CL:個|个[ge4],段[duan4] / constantly / always syn
一时 一時 yī shí a period of time / a while / for a short while / temporary / momentary / at the same time syn
期限 qī xiàn time limit / deadline / allotted time syn
时光 時光 shí guāng time / era / period of time syn
多久 duō jiǔ (of time) how long? / (not) a long time
时空 時空 shí kōng time and place / world of a particular locale and era / (physics) space-time syn
不时 不時 bù shí from time to time / now and then / occasionally / frequently syn
长久 長久 cháng jiǔ long-time / long-term / lasting / enduring / permanent / for a long time syn
截至 jié zhì up to (a time) / by (a time) syn
北京时间 北京時間 běi jīng shí jiān Beijing Time (BJT) / China Standard Time (CST)
定时 定時 dìng shí to fix a time / fixed time / timed (of explosive etc)
届时 屆時 jiè shí when the time comes / at the scheduled time syn
来得及 來得及 lái de jí to have enough time / can do it in time / can still make it syn
工夫 gōng fu period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort syn
时段 時段 shí duàn time interval / work shift / time slot / the twelve two-hour divisions of the day syn
时而 時而 shí ér occasionally / from time to time syn
早晚 zǎo wǎn morning and evening / (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later / one of these days / (coll.) (this, or that) point of time / (dialect) at some time in the future syn
限期 xiàn qī to set a time limit / time limit / deadline syn
时不时 時不時 shí bù shí from time to time syn
历来 歷來 lì lái always / throughout (a period of time) / (of) all-time syn
久违 久違 jiǔ wéi (haven't done sth) for a long time / a long time since we last met syn
分身 fēn shēn (of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time / a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet) / to spare some time for a separate task / to cut a corpse into pieces / to pull a body apart by the four limbs / parturition syn
车程 車程 chē chéng travel time / expected time for a car journey
耗时 耗時 hào shí time-consuming / to take a period of (x amount of time)
回回 huí huí time and again / every time
时隔 時隔 shí gé separated in time (usu. followed by a quantity of time)
空档 空檔 kòng dàng gap (between two objects) / interval of time (between events) / opening in one's schedule / free time / (fig.) gap (in the market etc)
反反复复 反反復復 fǎn fǎn fù fù repeatedly / time and time again syn
自习 自習 zì xí to study outside of class time (reviewing one's lessons) / to study in one's free time / individual study syn
时差 時差 shí chā time difference / time lag / jet lag
头一回 頭一回 tóu yī huí the first time / for the first time syn
扶正 fú zhèng to set sth upright or straight / to promote an employee from part-time to full-time (or from deputy to principal) / (old) to raise from concubine to wife status
双管齐下 雙管齊下 shuāng guǎn qí xià lit. to paint holding two brushes (idiom) / fig. to work on two tasks at the same time / to attack one problem from two angles at the same time syn
交货期 交貨期 jiāo huò qī delivery time (time between ordering goods and receiving the delivery) / date of delivery
去 qù to go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation) syn
毁于一旦 毀於一旦 huǐ yú yī dàn (idiom) ruined in a short time (esp. of sth that took a long time or great effort to achieve) syn
蹉跎 cuō tuó (literary) to slip / (of looks etc) to fade away / (of time) to slip away / to squander (time, opportunities) / to dillydally syn
死期 sǐ qī time of death / limited to a fixed period of time / fixed term
时点 時點 shí diǎn point of time (in time-based systems)
到点 到點 dào diǎn it's time (to do sth) / the time has come syn
消闲 消閒 xiāo xián to spend one's leisure time / to idle away the time syn
次 cì next in sequence / second / the second (day, time etc) / secondary / vice- / sub- / infra- / inferior quality / substandard / order / sequence / hypo- (chemistry) / classifier for enumerated events: time syn
光阴似箭 光陰似箭 guāng yīn sì jiàn time flies like an arrow (idiom) / How time flies! syn
天时地利人和 天時地利人和 tiān shí dì lì rén hé the time is right, geographical and social conditions are favorable (idiom) / a good time to go to war
盛极一时 盛極一時 shèng jí yī shí all the rage for a time / grand fashion for a limited time syn
期 qī a period of time / phase / stage / classifier for issues of a periodical, courses of study / time / term / period / to hope / Taiwan pr. [qi2] syn
瞿秋白 qū qiū bái Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March
大器晚成 dà qì wǎn chéng lit. it takes a long time to make a big pot (idiom) / fig. a great talent matures slowly / in the fullness of time a major figure will develop into a pillar of the state / Rome wasn't built in a day syn
度日如年 dù rì rú nián a day drags past like a year (idiom) / time hangs heavy / time crawls when one is wretched syn
生不逢时 生不逢時 shēng bù féng shí born at the wrong time (idiom) / unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate) / born under an unlucky star / ahead of his time syn
猴年马月 猴年馬月 hóu nián mǎ yuè long time off / time that will never come
空儿 空兒 kòng r spare time / free time syn
在这期间 在這期間 zài zhè qī jiān during time / in this time
宅男 zhái nán a guy who stays at home all the time, typically spending a lot of time playing online games (derived from Japanese "otaku")
时有所闻 時有所聞 shí yǒu suǒ wén heard from time to time / one keeps hearing that... syn
番番 fān fān time and time again
发稿时 發稿時 fā gǎo shí time of publication / at the time of going to press
秋后算帐 秋後算帳 qiū hòu suàn zhàng lit. settle accounts after the autumn harvest (idiom) / to wait until the time is ripe to settle accounts / to bide one's time for revenge
花时间 花時間 huā shí jiān to take up time / to spend time
费时 費時 fèi shí to take time / time-consuming syn
超迁 超遷 chāo qiān (literary) to be promoted more than one grade or rank at a time / to be promoted ahead of time
赶得及 趕得及 gǎn dé jí there is still time (to do sth) / to be able to do sth in time / to be able to make it syn
头回 頭回 tóu huí for the first time / on the previous occasion / last time (something occurred)
冬令时 冬令時 dōng lìng shí standard time (as opposed to daylight saving time 夏令時|夏令时[xia4 ling4 shi2])
停留时间 停留時間 tíng liú shí jiān residence time (1) / lifetime / chemical residence time
滞留时间 滯留時間 zhì liú shí jiān residence time (1) / lifetime / chemical residence time
法相时基金会 Dharma Nature Time / International Foundation for Dharma Nature Time
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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