尘暴
chén bào
Pinyin

Definition

尘暴
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chén bào
  1. dust devil

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

Bào
  1. 1 surname Bao
bào lì
  1. 1 violence
  2. 2 force
  3. 3 violent
bào lù
  1. 1 to expose
  2. 2 to reveal
  3. 3 to lay bare
  4. 4 also pr. [pù lù]
fēng bào
  1. 1 storm
  2. 2 violent commotion
  3. 3 fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc)
xiōng bào
  1. 1 brutal
qiáng bào
  1. 1 violent
  2. 2 to rape
bào lì
  1. 1 sudden huge profits
bào jūn
  1. 1 tyrant
  2. 2 despot
bào fù
  1. 1 to get rich quick
bào tú
  1. 1 bandit
  2. 2 thug
  3. 3 ruffian
bào nù
  1. 1 to fly into a rage
  2. 2 to rage violently
bào shài
  1. 1 (of the sun) to scorch
  2. 2 to expose to a scorching sun
bào zhǎng
  1. 1 to increase sharply
  2. 2 to rise dramatically
bào fā
  1. 1 to break out (of disease etc)
  2. 2 to suddenly get rich (or prominent)
bào fā hù
  1. 1 newly rich
  2. 2 parvenu
  3. 3 upstart
bào diē
  1. 1 (economics) to slump
  2. 2 steep fall (in value etc)
bào zào
  1. 1 irascible
  2. 2 irritable
  3. 3 violent
bào yǔ
  1. 1 torrential rain
  2. 2 rainstorm
  3. 3 CL:場|场[cháng],陣|阵[zhèn]
bào fēng
  1. 1 storm wind
  2. 2 storm (force 11 wind)
bào fēng yǔ
  1. 1 rainstorm
  2. 2 storm
  3. 3 tempest

Idioms (9)

一暴十寒
yī pù shí hán
  1. 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
  2. 2 sporadic effort
  3. 3 short attention span
不畏强暴
bù wèi qiáng bào
  1. 1 not to submit to force (idiom); to defy threats and violence
暴虎冯河
bào hǔ píng hé
  1. 1 lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to display foolhardy courage
横征暴敛
héng zhēng bào liǎn
  1. 1 to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force
横正暴敛
héng zhèng bào liǎn
  1. 1 to levy exorbitant taxes (idiom)
狂风暴雨
kuáng fēng bào yǔ
  1. 1 howling wind and torrential rain (idiom)
  2. 2 (fig.) difficult, dangerous situation
狂饮暴食
kuáng yǐn bào shí
  1. 1 drunken gluttony (idiom); eating and drinking to excess
脸红筋暴
liǎn hóng jīn bào
  1. 1 red and tense with anger (idiom)
除暴安良
chú bào ān liáng
  1. 1 to root out the strong and give people peace (idiom); to rob the rich and give to the poor

Sample Sentences

沙尘暴,听上去就很恐怖。
shāchénbào ,tīngshàngqù jiù hěn kǒngbù 。
Sandstorms? Just the sound of it is horrible.
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最近雨水少,气候干燥。而且,我们这边靠近蒙古南部的戈壁地区,所以到了春末夏初,经常会有沙尘天气,有时还会有沙尘暴呢。
zuìjìn yǔ shuǐ shǎo ,qìhòu gānzào 。érqiě ,wǒmen zhèbiān kàojìn Ménggǔ nánbù de gēbì dìqū ,suǒyǐ dào le chūn mò xià chū ,jīngcháng huì yǒu shāchén tiānqì ,yǒushí hái huì yǒu shāchénbào ne 。
These days there isn't much rainfall and the climate is dry. Also, up here, we're right against the area of the Gobi Desert in the southern part of Mongolia, so at the end of spring and beginning of summer, there's often sand dust in the air. Sometimes there are even sandstorms.
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You're still way too relaxed about this. Can you be saying that you want to breathe filthy air all day, blowing dust devils, and drinking dirty water from the Yangtze River? You should know that 70% of the lakes in China are already polluted, and the trend for ecological protection in those lakes is extremely serious...