上万 (上萬)
shàng wàn
Pinyin
Definition
上万 (上萬)
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- over ten thousand
- fig. untold numbers
- innumerable
- thousands upon thousands
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一哭二闹三上吊
- 1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)
- 2 to throw a tantrum
一条绳上的蚂蚱
- 1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)
- 2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse
- 3 people who will sink or swim together
三天不打,上房揭瓦
- 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
- 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
上一次当,学一次乖
- 1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
- 2 once bitten, twice shy
上下其手
- 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
- 2 fig. conspiring to defraud
Sample Sentences
啊,意思是,虽然我积累了成千上万的词汇,却只有词汇本身的形音义信息,而没有词汇的搭配与语境等其他信息。
Ah, you mean, although I've accumulated an untold number of words, I only have data on the shape, sound and meaning of the words themselves, I haven't got data on the words that go with them and other information on their context of use.
对于我们阿尔法人来说,当然还包括我们的竞争对手,即将进入互联网时代的成千上万的潜在中国用户群正是我们最大的业务发展目标。如果我们一切运作得当,那么在非常短的时期内我们将可以得到一个巨大的回报。
For Alpha Computers, and of course also for our competitors, upon entering the internet age our most important area for business development lies in the tens upon thousands of potential Chinese computer users. If all of our operations run smoothly, we'll be able to gain a huge return in a very short amount of time.