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"to spy out" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
淘汰 táo tài to wash out / (fig.) to cull / to weed out / to eliminate / to die out / to phase out syn
间谍 間諜 jiàn dié spy syn
发出 發出 fā chū to issue (an order, decree etc) / to send out / to dispatch / to produce (a sound) / to let out (a laugh) syn
出局 chū jú (of a batter) to be put out (in baseball) / to be dismissed (in cricket) / (of a player or team) to be eliminated from a competition / (fig.) to be weeded out / to get the chop (in a competitive environment)
整理 zhěng lǐ to arrange / to tidy up / to sort out / to straighten out / to list systematically / to collate (data, files) / to pack (luggage) syn
爆发 爆發 bào fā to break out / to erupt / to explode / to burst out syn
展开 展開 zhǎn kāi to unfold / to spread out / to open up / to launch / to carry out syn
底线 底線 dǐ xiàn bottom line / the limit of what one is prepared to accept / (sports) baseline / (sewing) under thread / spy / informer / plant syn
着手 著手 zhuó shǒu to put one's hand to it / to start out on a task / to set out syn
取出 qǔ chū to take out / to extract / to draw out
百分之百 bǎi fēn zhī bǎi a hundred percent / out and out / absolutely syn
透顶 透頂 tòu dǐng out-and-out / thoroughly syn
漏掉 lòu diào to miss / to leave out / to omit / to be omitted / to be missing / to slip through / to leak out / to seep away syn
出头 出頭 chū tóu to get out of a predicament / to stick out / to take the initiative / remaining odd fraction after a division / a little more than syn
伸手 shēn shǒu to reach out with one's hand / to hold out a hand / (fig.) to beg / to get involved / to meddle syn
偏偏 piān piān (indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately / as it happened / (indicating that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly / contrarily / against reason / (indicating that sb or a group is singled out) precisely / only / of all people syn
彻头彻尾 徹頭徹尾 chè tóu chè wěi lit. from head to tail (idiom) / thoroughgoing / through and through / out and out / from top to bottom syn
熄灭 熄滅 xī miè to stop burning / to go out (of fire) / to die out / extinguished syn
半死 bàn sǐ half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc) / (tired) to death / (terrified) out of one's wits / (beaten) to within an inch of one's life / (knock) the daylights out of sb syn
试探 試探 shì tàn to sound out / to probe / to feel out / to try out syn
挤出 擠出 jǐ chū to squeeze out / to extrude / to drain / to find the time / to burst out syn
倾倒 傾倒 qīng dào to dump / to pour out / to empty out syn
江湖 jiāng hú rivers and lakes / all corners of the country / remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law / the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3xia2]) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc / demimonde / (in modern times) triads / secret gangster societies / underworld syn
出炉 出爐 chū lú to take out of the furnace / fresh out of the oven / fig. newly announced / recently made available
熄灯 熄燈 xī dēng turn out the lights / lights out
眼线 眼線 yǎn xiàn informer / snitch / spy / scout / (cosmetics) eye line syn
不合 bù hé to not conform to / to be unsuited to / to be out of keeping with / should not / ought out syn
熄火 xī huǒ (of fire, lamp etc) to go out / to put out (fire) / (fig.) to die down / (of a vehicle) to stall
窥探 窺探 kuī tàn to pry into or spy on / to snoop / to peep / to poke one's nose into / to peer / to get a glimpse of syn
特务 特務 tè wu special assignment (military) / special agent / operative / spy syn
不折不扣 bù zhé bù kòu a hundred percent / to the letter / out-and-out syn
放风 放風 fàng fēng to allow in fresh air / to allow a prisoner out for exercise / to give out information syn
窥视 窺視 kuī shì to peep at / to spy on / to peek syn
舒展 shū zhǎn to roll out / to extend / to smooth out / to unfold syn
叫唤 叫喚 jiào huan to cry out / to bark out a sound syn
探子 tàn zi intelligence gatherer / spy / detective / scout / sound (medical instrument) / long and narrow probing and sampling utensil syn
侦察兵 偵察兵 zhēn chá bīng a scout / spy syn
奸细 奸細 jiān xi a spy / a crafty person syn
刺探 cì tàn to pry into / to spy on / to probe into syn
理顺 理順 lǐ shùn to straighten out / to sort out / to organize syn
侦察机 偵察機 zhēn chá jī surveillance aircraft / spy plane
涌出 湧出 yǒng chū to gush / to gush out / to pour out syn
拿出 ná chū to take out / to put out / to provide / to put forward (a proposal) / to come up with (evidence) syn
谍报 諜報 dié bào spy report / intelligence syn
拉平 lā píng to bring to the same level / to even up / to flare out / to flatten out syn
呕心沥血 嘔心瀝血 ǒu xīn lì xuè lit. to spit out one's heart and spill blood (idiom) / to work one's heart out / blood, sweat and tears syn
在野 zài yě to be out of (political) office / to be out of power syn
开挖 開挖 kāi wā to dig out / to excavate / to scoop out / to start digging syn
侦察员 偵察員 zhēn chá yuán detective / investigator / scout / spy syn
知难而退 知難而退 zhī nán ér tuì lit. to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom) / fig. to back out of an awkward situation / to get out on finding out what it's really like syn
脱销 脫銷 tuō xiāo to sell out / to run out (of supplies) / deficient / lack of supplies syn
出笼 出籠 chū lóng (of food) to be taken out of the steamer / (fig.) (often used with 紛紛|纷纷[fen1 fen1]) (of products, information etc) to appear / to emerge / to come out / (fig.) to dump / to inundate the market
豢养 豢養 huàn yǎng to keep (an animal) / to look after the needs of (a person or an animal) / (fig.) to keep (a spy, lackey etc) in one's pay syn
万人空巷 萬人空巷 wàn rén kōng xiàng the multitudes come out from everywhere, emptying every alleyway (to celebrate) / the whole town turns out syn
赤膊上阵 赤膊上陣 chì bó shàng zhèn lit. to go into battle bare-breasted (idiom) / fig. to go all out / to come out in the open syn
开票 開票 kāi piào to open ballot boxes / to count votes / to make out a voucher or invoice etc / to write out a receipt
冬笋 冬筍 dōng sǔn winter bamboo shoots (smaller and tenderer as a result of being dug out before they come out of the soil) syn
点题 點題 diǎn tí to bring out the main theme / to make the point / to bring out the substance concisely
窥伺 窺伺 kuī sì to spy upon / to lie in wait for (an opportunity) syn
上线 上線 shàng xiàn to go online / to put sth online / to reach a specific standard / to put into production / handler (person who oversees and directs the activities of another person in a gang, spy ring etc)
掏出 tāo chū to fish out / to take out (from a pocket, bag etc)
想出 xiǎng chū to figure out / to work out (a solution etc) / to think up / to come up with (an idea etc)
喷出 噴出 pēn chū spout / spray / belch / to well up / to puff out / to spurt out
发飙 發飆 fā biāo to flip out / to act out violently
线人 線人 xiàn rén spy / informer
打爆 dǎ bào to blow out / to blow off / (computer games) to zap / (phone) to ring off the hook / to be jammed / to max out (credit card etc)
细作 細作 xì zuò (old) spy / secret agent syn
寻出 尋出 xún chū to find out / to search out / to uncover / to discover
售罄 shòu qìng to be completely sold out / to sell out syn
断档 斷檔 duàn dàng sold out / to be out of stock
内鬼 內鬼 nèi guǐ mole / spy / rat / traitor
倒 dào to invert / to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out / to dump / inverted / upside down / reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect / but / yet syn
演 yǎn to perform (a play etc) / to stage (a show) / (bound form) to develop / to play out / to carry out (a task) syn
抽 chōu to draw out / to pull out from in between / to remove part of the whole / (of certain plants) to sprout or bud / to whip or thrash syn
吐 tǔ to spit / to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc) / to say / to pour out (one's grievances) syn
租 zū to hire / to rent / to charter / to rent out / to lease out / rent / land tax syn
拔 bá to pull up / to pull out / to draw out by suction / to select / to pick / to stand out (above level) / to surpass / to seize syn
灭 滅 miè to extinguish or put out / to go out (of a fire etc) / to exterminate or wipe out / to drown syn
熄 xī to extinguish / to put out (fire) / to quench / to stop burning / to go out (of fire, lamp etc) / to come to an end / to wither away / to die out / Taiwan pr. [xi2] syn
择 擇 zhái to choose / to pick over / to pick out / to take out / to eliminate syn
尽心尽力 盡心盡力 jìn xīn jìn lì making an all-out effort (idiom) / to try one's heart out / to do one's utmost syn
蹿 躥 cuān to leap up / (coll.) to gush out / to spurt out syn
谍 諜 dié to spy
狙 jū macaque / to spy / to lie in ambush
发飚 發飆 fā biāo to flip out / to act out violently / also written 發飆|发飚[fa1 biao1]
剜 wān to scoop out / to gouge out syn
伺 sì to watch / to wait / to examine / to spy
觑 覷 qù to spy / watch for syn
挤垮 擠垮 jǐ kuǎ to squash / to crush / to squeeze out of business / to drive out
倒空 dào kōng to empty (a bag) / to turn inside out / to turn out
套问 套問 tào wèn to sound sb out / to find out by tactful indirect questioning
抉 jué to pick out / to single out
觇 覘 zhān keep at / to spy syn
觇 覘 chān to observe / to spy on / Taiwan pr. [zhan1] syn
一 yī one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire / whole / all / throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit syn
看 kàn to see / to look at / to read / to watch / to visit / to call on / to consider / to regard as / to look after / to treat (a patient or illness) / to depend on / to feel (that) / (after a verb) to give it a try / to watch out for syn
开 開 kāi to open (transitive or intransitive) / (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start / to turn on / to put in operation / to operate / to run / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / (directional complement) away / off / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1er3wen2] / abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1ben3], book format syn
发生 發生 fā shēng to happen / to occur / to take place / to break out syn
起 qǐ to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group syn
放 fàng to put / to place / to release / to free / to let go / to let out / to set off (fireworks) syn
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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