生活水平
shēng huó shuǐ píng
Pinyin

Definition

生活水平
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shēng huó shuǐ píng
  1. living standards

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

人生
rén shēng
  1. 1 life (one's time on earth)
先生
Xiān sheng
  1. 1 Mister (Mr.)
女生
nu:3 shēng
  1. 1 schoolgirl
  2. 2 female student
  3. 3 girl
学生
xué sheng
  1. 1 student
  2. 2 schoolchild
平安
píng ān
  1. 1 safe and sound
  2. 2 well
  3. 3 without mishap
  4. 4 quiet and safe
  5. 5 at peace
水
Shuǐ
  1. 1 surname Shui
水果
shuǐ guǒ
  1. 1 fruit
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
水瓶座
Shuǐ píng zuò
  1. 1 Aquarius (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
活
huó
  1. 1 to live
  2. 2 alive
  3. 3 living
  4. 4 work
  5. 5 workmanship
活动
huó dòng
  1. 1 to exercise
  2. 2 to move about
  3. 3 to operate
  4. 4 to use connections (personal influence)
  5. 5 loose
  6. 6 shaky
  7. 7 active
  8. 8 movable
  9. 9 activity
  10. 10 campaign
  11. 11 maneuver
  12. 12 behavior
  13. 13 CL:項|项[xiàng],個|个[gè]
生
shēng
  1. 1 to be born
  2. 2 to give birth
  3. 3 life
  4. 4 to grow
  5. 5 raw
  6. 6 uncooked
  7. 7 student
生命
shēng mìng
  1. 1 life (as the characteristic of living beings)
  2. 2 living being
  3. 3 creature
  4. 4 CL:個|个[gè],條|条[tiáo]
生日
shēng rì
  1. 1 birthday
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
生气
shēng qì
  1. 1 to get angry
  2. 2 to take offense
  3. 3 angry
  4. 4 vitality
  5. 5 liveliness
生活
shēng huó
  1. 1 life
  2. 2 activity
  3. 3 to live
  4. 4 livelihood
男生
nán shēng
  1. 1 schoolboy
  2. 2 male student
  3. 3 boy
  4. 4 guy (young adult male)
发生
fā shēng
  1. 1 to happen
  2. 2 to occur
  3. 3 to take place
  4. 4 to break out
医生
yī shēng
  1. 1 doctor
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè],位[wèi],名[míng]
一生
yī shēng
  1. 1 all one's life
  2. 2 throughout one's life
一生一世
yī shēng yī shì
  1. 1 a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life

Idioms (20)

一回生二回熟
yī huí shēng èr huí shú
  1. 1 unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom)
一波未平，一波又起
yī bō wèi píng , yī bō yòu qǐ
  1. 1 before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved
  2. 2 many twists and turns to a story
  3. 3 one thing after another
一清如水
yī qīng rú shuǐ
  1. 1 lit. as clear as water (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of officials etc) honest and incorruptible
一生一世
yī shēng yī shì
  1. 1 a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life
一碗水端平
yī wǎn shuǐ duān píng
  1. 1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be impartial
一马平川
yī mǎ píng chuān
  1. 1 flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom); wide expanse of flat country
一点水一个泡
yī diǎn shuǐ yī gè pào
  1. 1 honest and trustworthy (idiom)
七窍生烟
qī qiào shēng yān
  1. 1 lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to seethe with anger
三个和尚没水喝
sān gè hé shang méi shuǐ hē
  1. 1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
  3. 3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)
三生有幸
sān shēng yǒu xìng
  1. 1 the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom)
  2. 2 (courteous language) it's my good fortune...
不知死活
bù zhī sǐ huó
  1. 1 to act recklessly (idiom)
不显山不露水
bù xiǎn shān bù lù shuǐ
  1. 1 lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts
九死一生
jiǔ sǐ yī shēng
  1. 1 nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape
  2. 2 new lease of life
了无生趣
liǎo wú shēng qù
  1. 1 to lose all interest in life (idiom)
人不可貌相，海水不可斗量
rén bù kě mào xiàng , hǎi shuǐ bù kě dǒu liáng
  1. 1 you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot (idiom)
人往高处走，水往低处流
rén wǎng gāo chù zǒu , shuǐ wǎng dī chù liú
  1. 1 man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom)
  2. 2 one should constantly strive to make progress
人生一世，草木一春
rén shēng yī shì , cǎo mù yī chūn
  1. 1 Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
人生何处不相逢
rén shēng hé chù bù xiāng féng
  1. 1 it's a small world (idiom)
人生如梦
rén shēng rú mèng
  1. 1 life is but a dream (idiom)
人生如朝露
rén shēng rú zhāo lù
  1. 1 human life as the morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence

Sample Sentences

生活水平提升自然是好的，老弟我是信奉进步二字的，内心宁静纯属个人，追求更多、更快、更好才是人性的本然。
shēnghuó shuǐpíng tíshēng zìrán shì hǎo de ，lǎodì wǒ shì xìnfèng jìnbù èr zì de ，nèixīn níngjìng chúnshǔ gèrén ，zhuīqiú gèng duō 、gèng kuài 、gèng hǎo cáishì rénxìng de běnrán 。
Naturally an improvement in living standards is good, I believe in the word progress, buddy. Inner peace is for the individual, asking for more, more quickly and better is the essence of being human.
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我还是觉得，没有到达一定的生活水平，生活不够安逸的社会，是不会去追求小确幸的。
wǒ háishì juéde ，méiyǒu dàodá yīdìng de shēnghuó shuǐpíng ，shēnghuó bùgòu ānyì de shèhuì ，shì bùhuì qù zhuīqiú xiǎoquèxìng de 。
I still feel that if your quality of life doesn't reach a certain level, you live in a society that's not easy , you won't pursue these little certain joys.
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现在和以前不一样的。现在生活水平高，物质丰富。而且都希望下一代能比自己好，能在他们同龄人中脱颖而出。所以，对小孩的支出就像是个无底洞。
xiànzài hé yǐqián bù yīyàng de 。xiànzài shēnghuó shuǐpíng gāo ，wùzhì fēngfù 。érqiě dōu xīwàng xiàyīdài néng bǐ zìjǐ hǎo ，néng zài tāmen tónglíngrén zhōng tuōyǐng\'érchū 。suǒyǐ ，duì xiǎohái de zhīchū jiù xiàng shì gè wúdǐdòng 。
Times are different now. The standard of living is higher, and people have more stuff. We have to make sure the next generation is better off than we are and also that our kids can really stand out among their peers. Because of all this, paying a kid's expenses is like pouring money into a bottomless pit.
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如果不加大企业间的竞争，单纯依赖政府扶持，国有企业只能继续没有效率地运行下去，这样可能会进一步加重政府的负担，是没有任何好处的。就算表面上掩饰了失业率，可是经济并没有发展，人民生活水平也没能真正得到提高。
rúguǒ bù jiādà qǐyè jiān de jìngzhēng ，dānchún yīlài zhèngfǔ fúchí ，guóyǒu qǐyè zhǐnéng jìxù méiyǒu xiàolǜ de yùnxíng xiàqu ，zhèyàng kěnéng huì jìn yī bù jiāzhòng zhèngfǔ de fùdān ，shì méiyǒu rènhé hǎochu de 。jiùsuàn biǎomiàn shàng yǎnshì le shīyèlǜ ，kěshì jīngjì bìng méiyǒu fāzhǎn ，rénmín shēnghuó shuǐpíng yě méinéng zhēnzhèng dédào tígāo 。
If they don't add competition between big enterprises, and rely purely on government support, state-owned enterprises can only continue to operate inefficiently. Doing it this way will make the government's burden even heavier. It has no plus side at all. Even if on the surface you've concealed the unemployment rate, the economy still hasn't developed. People's standard of living hasn't really risen at all.
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