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"ups and down" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
低昂 dī áng ups and down / rise and fall
Chinese Pinyin Translation
沉浮 chén fú lit. sinking and floating / to bob up and down on water / ebb and flow / fig. rise and fall / ups and downs of fortune / vicissitudes syn
起伏 qǐ fú to move up and down / to undulate / ups and downs syn
起落 qǐ luò to rise and fall / takeoff and landing / ups and downs syn
压住 壓住 yā zhù to press down / to crush down / to restrain (anger) / to keep down (voice)
垂 chuí to hang (down) / droop / dangle / bend down / hand down / bequeath / nearly / almost / to approach syn
风风雨雨 風風雨雨 fēng fēng yǔ yǔ trials and tribulations / ups and downs syn
浮沉 fú chén ups and downs (of life etc) / to drift along / to sink and emerge syn
沧桑 滄桑 cāng sāng great changes / ups and downs / vicissitudes / abbr. of 滄海桑田|沧海桑田[cang1 hai3 sang1 tian2] syn
大起大落 dà qǐ dà luò (of market prices etc) to rapidly fluctuate (idiom) / volatile / significant ups and downs / roller coaster syn
人生盛衰 rén shēng shèng shuāi life has its ups and downs (idiom)
有沉有浮 yǒu chén yǒu fú to have one's ups and downs
上访 上訪 shàng fǎng to seek an audience with higher-ups (esp. government officials) to petition for sth
联合包裹服务公司 聯合包裹服務公司 lián hé bāo guǒ fú wù gōng sī United Parcel Service (UPS)
上有政策，下有对策 上有政策，下有對策 shàng yǒu zhèng cè , xià yǒu duì cè The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)
不断电电源卫星站 bù duàn diàn diàn yuán wèi xīng zhàn UPS satellite station
氪肝 kè gān (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing a video game (rather than pay for power-ups)
下来 下來 xià lai to come down / (completed action marker) / (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.) / (indicates continuation from the past towards us) / to be harvested (of crops) / to be over (of a period of time) / to go among the masses (said of leaders) syn
打千 dǎ qiān genuflection, a form of salutation in Qing times performed by men, going down on the right knee and reaching down with the right hand
披垂 pī chuí (of clothes, hair etc) to hang down and cover / to flow down
放下 fàng xià to lay down / to put down / to let go of / to relinquish / to set aside / to lower (the blinds etc) syn
打倒 dǎ dǎo to overthrow / to knock down / Down with ... ! syn
倒数 倒數 dào shǔ to count backwards (from 10 down to 0) / to count down / from the bottom (lines on a page) / from the back (rows of seats)
淡化 dàn huà to water down / to play down / to trivialize / to weaken / to become dull with time / to desalinate / desalination syn
抛下 拋下 pāo xià to throw down / to dump / to abandon / thrown down
击倒 擊倒 jī dǎo to knock down / knocked down syn
笔录 筆錄 bǐ lù to put down in writing / to take down notes / transcript / record syn
俯冲 俯衝 fǔ chōng to dive down fast / to swoop down
倒立 dào lì a handstand / to turn upside down / to stand on one's head / upside down syn
下 xià down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action syn
落井下石 luò jǐng xià shí to throw stones at sb who has fallen down a well (idiom) / to hit a person when he's down syn
撂倒 liào dǎo to knock down / to mow down
牵累 牽累 qiān lèi to weigh down / tied down (by affairs) syn
牵累 牽累 qiān lěi to weigh down / to trouble / to implicate (sb) / tied down (by affairs) syn
奔泻 奔瀉 bēn xiè (of torrents) to rush down / to pour down syn
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
撂 liào to put down / to leave behind / to throw or knock down / to abandon or discard syn
投井下石 tóu jǐng xià shí to throw stones at sb who has fallen down a well (idiom) / to hit a person when he's down syn
崩倒 bēng dǎo to collapse / to crash down / to fall down in a heap
掺水 摻水 chān shuǐ to dilute / to water down / watered down
下视 下視 xià shì to look down from above / (fig.) to look down on / to despise
放倒 fàng dǎo to knock over / to knock down / to lay flat / to fell / to bring down
拖垮 tuō kuǎ to drag down / to bring down
幽明 yōu míng the hidden and the visible / that which can be seen and that which cannot / darkness and light / night and day / wisdom and ignorance / evil and good / the living and the dead / men and ghosts
幽明 yōu - míng the hidden and the visible / that which can be seen and that which cannot / darkness and light / night and day / wisdom and ignorance / evil and good / the living and the dead / men and ghosts
上下 shàng xià up and down / top and bottom / old and young / length / about / more or less syn
此起彼伏 cǐ qǐ bǐ fú up here, down there (idiom) / to rise and fall in succession / no sooner one subsides, the next arises / repeating continuously / occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc) syn
搜捕 sōu bǔ to hunt and arrest (fugitives) / to track down and arrest / a manhunt syn
倒挂 倒掛 dào guà lit. to hang upside down / fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods) / to borrow more than one can ever repay syn
名缰利锁 名韁利鎖 míng jiāng lì suǒ lit. fettered by fame and locked up by riches (idiom) / tied down by reputation and wealth / the victim of one's own success syn
神魂颠倒 神魂顛倒 shén hún diān dǎo lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom) / infatuated and head over heels in love / fascinated / captivated syn
起居作息 qǐ jū zuò xī lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom) / fig. everyday life / daily routine / to go about one's daily life
打量 dǎ liang to size sb up / to look sb up and down / to take the measure of / to suppose / to reckon syn
朴实 樸實 pǔ shí plain / simple / guileless / down-to-earth / sincere and honest syn
坎坷 kǎn kě (of a road) bumpy / (of life) rough / to be down on one's luck / to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes syn
摔倒 shuāi dǎo to fall down / to slip and fall / to throw sb to the ground syn
查获 查獲 chá huò to track down and seize (a criminal suspect, contraband etc) syn
落魄 luò pò down and out / in dire straits / unrestrained / unconventional / also pr. [luo4 tuo4]
撞死 zhuàng sǐ to knock down and kill (with a car, train etc)
成家 chéng jiā to settle down and get married (of a man) / to become a recognized expert syn
翻天覆地 fān tiān fù dì sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom) / fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head syn
天翻地覆 tiān fān dì fù sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom) / fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head syn
入微 rù wēi down to the smallest detail / thoroughgoing / fine and detailed syn
劈头盖脸 劈頭蓋臉 pī tóu gài liǎn lit. splitting the head and covering the face (idiom) / fig. pelting (with rain etc) / showering down syn
安身立命 ān shēn lì mìng (idiom) to settle down and pursue one's path in life syn
强词夺理 強詞奪理 qiǎng cí duó lǐ to twist words and force logic (idiom) / sophistry / loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument / shoving false arguments down people's throats syn
成家立业 成家立業 chéng jiā lì yè to get married and start a career (idiom) / to settle down / to establish oneself syn
劝架 勸架 quàn jià to mediate in a quarrel / to intervene in a dispute and try to calm things down syn
偃旗息鼓 yǎn qí xī gǔ lit. lay down the flag and still the drums (idiom) / fig. to cease / to give in syn
下拜 xià bài to bow down low / to make obeisance / to kneel and bow
法制晚报 法製晚報 fǎ zhì wǎn bào Legal Evening News, a Beijing-based legal affairs newspaper launched in 2004 and shut down in 2019
上天入地 shàng tiān rù dì lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom) / fig. to go to great lengths / to search heaven and earth
落拓 luò tuò down and out / in dire straits / unrestrained / unconventional syn
侦缉 偵緝 zhēn jī to track down / to investigate and arrest syn
永定门 永定門 yǒng dìng mén Yongdingmen, front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall, torn down in the 1950s and reconstructed in 2005
投笔从戎 投筆從戎 tóu bǐ cóng róng to lay down the pen and take up the sword (idiom) / to join the military (esp. of educated person) syn
登 dēng to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old) syn
挑山工 tiāo shān gōng laborers who carry cargo up and down the mountains on shoulder poles
摔 shuāi to throw down / to fall / to drop and break syn
簸 bǒ to winnow / to toss up and down syn
觭 jī odd / one horn up and one horn down
异化作用 異化作用 yì huà zuò yòng catabolism (biology) / metabolic breaking down and waste disposal / dissimilation
案甲休兵 àn jiǎ xiū bīng to put down weapon and let soldiers rest (idiom) / to relax from fighting
横眉立目 橫眉立目 héng méi lì mù to scowl and stare down / to defy
横躺竖卧 橫躺豎臥 héng tǎng shù wò to lie down all over the place / exhausted and in disarray syn
破门而入 破門而入 pò mén ér rù to break the door down and enter (idiom)
关门大吉 關門大吉 guān mén dà jí to close down a business for good and put the best face on it (idiom) syn
俯拾皆是 fǔ shí jiē shì lit. so numerous that one could just bend down and pick them up (idiom) / fig. extremely common / easily available syn
裁并 裁並 cái bìng cut down and merge
指事字 zhǐ shì zì ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down / also known as self-explanatory character
黄鹤楼 黃鶴樓 huáng hè lóu Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢[Cui1 Hao4], with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼[Yue4 yang2 Lou2] in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁[Teng2 wang2 Ge2] in Nanchang, Jiangxi
分解代谢 分解代謝 fēn jiě dài xiè catabolism (biology) / metabolic breaking down and waste disposal / dissimilation
孟姜女 mèng jiāng nǚ heroine of Qin dynasty 秦朝 folk tale, who searched for her husband, and whose tears broke down a stretch of the Great Wall to reveal his body
成也萧何，败也萧何 成也蕭何，敗也蕭何 chéng yě xiāo hé , bài yě xiāo hé lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Han2 Xin4] being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军[da4 jiang1 jun1] / fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor
拆用 chāi yòng to tear down and reuse / to cannibalize
拖儿带女 拖兒帶女 tuō ér dài nǚ supporting a wife and children / dragged down by having a family to feed syn
指事 zhǐ shì ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down / also known as self-explanatory character
放下屠刀，立地成佛 fàng xià tú dāo , lì dì chéng fó lay down butcher's knife, become a Buddha on the spot (idiom) / instant rehabilitation / to repent and be absolved of one's crimes
破瓦寒窑 破瓦寒窯 pò wǎ hán yáo lit. broken tiles, cold hearth / fig. a broken-down house / poor and shabby dwelling syn
翻手为云覆手变雨 翻手為雲覆手變雨 fān shǒu wéi yún fù shǒu biàn yǔ lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain / very powerful and capable (idiom)
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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