萧蕭 in English

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 蕭, the traditional character: 萧 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Warring States script 戰國.秦
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 6 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 在十九世纪三十年代的大萧条时期，许多富人在股市崩盘中失去了一切。

  During the Depression in the 1930's, many wealthy people lost everything in the stock market crash.

• 当30年代的沙尘暴和大萧条使人们感到绝望时，她看到一个国家用新政、新的就业机会以及对新目标的共同追求战胜恐慌。是的，我们能做到。

  When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.

• 经济萧条是一段时间内，当这样的经济活动普遍增长而造成的一种临时性的经济活动衰退。

  Recession is a temporary falling off of business activity during a period when such activity is generally increasing.

All example sentences with 萧