一年半载 (一年半載)
yī nián bàn zǎi
Pinyin

Definition

一年半载 (一年半載)
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yī nián bàn zǎi
  1. about a year

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

一
yī
  1. 1 one
  2. 2 1
  3. 3 single
  4. 4 a (article)
  5. 5 as soon as
  6. 6 entire
  7. 7 whole
  8. 8 all
  9. 9 throughout
  10. 10 "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  11. 11 also pr. [yāo] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
一下
yī xià
  1. 1 (used after a verb) give it a go
  2. 2 to do (sth for a bit to give it a try)
  3. 3 one time
  4. 4 once
  5. 5 in a while
  6. 6 all of a sudden
  7. 7 all at once
一起
yī qǐ
  1. 1 in the same place
  2. 2 together
  3. 3 with
  4. 4 altogether (in total)
年
Nián
  1. 1 surname Nian
新年
xīn nián
  1. 1 New Year
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

一不做，二不休
yī bù zuò , èr bù xiū
  1. 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
  2. 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
  3. 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
一丘之貉
yī qiū zhī hé
  1. 1 jackals of the same tribe (idiom); fig. They are all just as bad as each other.
一之为甚
yī zhī wéi shèn
  1. 1 once is more than enough (idiom)
一干二净
yī gān èr jìng
  1. 1 thoroughly (idiom)
  2. 2 completely
  3. 3 one and all
  4. 4 very clean
一五一十
yī wǔ yī shí
  1. 1 lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail

Sample Sentences

那你冷静，你给分析分析为什么男人出轨的几率那么高？过去说七年之痒，如今一年半载就开始“痒”了。
nà nǐ lěngjìng ，nǐ gěi fēnxi fēnxi wèishénme nánrén chūguǐ de jīlǜ nàme gāo ？guòqù shuō qīniánzhīyǎng ，rújīn yīniánbànzǎi jiù kāishǐ “yǎng ”le 。
If you're so cool and collected, can you analyze for me why men cheat at a higher rate? They used to talk about the "seven-year itch", now people start "itching" after about a year.
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哈哈，其实我什么计划也没有，我这次还真是豁出去了。也许逃到某个小岛上去，躲个一年半载的，思考一下"人生的意义"到底是什么。
hāhā ，qíshí wǒ shénme jìhuà yěméiyǒu ，wǒ zhè cì hái zhēn shì huòchūqù le 。yěxǔ táodào mǒuge xiǎo dǎo shàngqu ，duǒ gè yīniánbànzǎi de ，sīkǎo yīxià "rénshēng de yìyì "dàodǐ shì shénme 。
Haha, I actually don't have a plan at all. I really went for it this time. Perhaps i'll escape to some tiny island and hide there for a year or so and really ponder over what the "meaning of life" really is.
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大哥，中国有九亿农民，提高文化水平也不是一年半载的事。而且你怎么知道外国农民有文化？
dàgē ，Zhōngguó yǒu jiǔ yì nóngmín ，tígāo wénhuà shuǐpíng yě bù shì yīniánbànzǎi de shì 。érqiě nǐ zěnme zhīdào wàiguó nóngmín yǒu wénhuà ？
Buddy, China has nine hundred million farmers. Lifting their cultural level isn't something you can just do overnight. And how do you know that foreign farmers are so cultured?
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