上马 (上馬)
shàng mǎ
Pinyin

Definition

上马 (上馬)
 - 
shàng mǎ
  1. to get on a horse
  2. to mount

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

上
shǎng
上班
shàng bān
  1. 1 to go to work
  2. 2 to be on duty
  3. 3 to start work
  4. 4 to go to the office
早上
zǎo shang
  1. 1 early morning
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
晚上
wǎn shang
  1. 1 evening
  2. 2 night
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 in the evening
上下
shàng xià
  1. 1 up and down
  2. 2 top and bottom
  3. 3 old and new
  4. 4 length
  5. 5 about

Idioms (20)

一哭二闹三上吊
yī kū èr nào sān shàng diào
  1. 1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)
  2. 2 to throw a tantrum
一条绳上的蚂蚱
yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zha
  1. 1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse
  3. 3 people who will sink or swim together
三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
上一次当，学一次乖
shàng yī cì dàng , xué yī cì guāi
  1. 1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
  2. 2 once bitten, twice shy
上下其手
shàng xià qí shǒu
  1. 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
  2. 2 fig. conspiring to defraud

Sample Sentences

吕晓乐，今天是你第一次上马练习。瞧，这是你的马，叫霹雳。
Lǚ Xiǎolè ，jīntiān shì nǐ dì yī cì shàngmǎ liànxí 。qiáo ，zhè shì nǐ de mǎ ，jiào pīlì 。
Lu Xiaole, today is your first time practicing on horseback. Look, this is your horse, he's called Thunderbolt.
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呵呵，不要小看它，你说什么它都听得懂。关于上马的一些要点我再重复一遍......
hēhē ，bù yào xiǎokàn tā ，nǐ shuō shénme tā dōu tīng de dǒng 。guānyú shàngmǎ de yīxiē yàodiǎn wǒ zài chóngfù yī biàn ......
Heh-heh. Don't underestimate him. He can understand what you're saying. Let me go over some of the essentials concerning mounting the horse one more time.
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