令人
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Pinyin
Definition
令人
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- to cause one (to do sth)
- to make one (angry, delighted etc)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一鸣惊人
- 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
三人成虎
- 1 three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact
三人行,必有我师
- 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
- 2 you have sth to learn from everyone
三令五申
- 1 to order again and again (idiom)
Sample Sentences
购买那些令人垂涎三尺的食物,和最为有效的能消除吃了它们而引起副作用的减肥方法,购买音量最大的音响和最有疗效的头痛片。
buying those mouth-watering foods, which have the side effects of being the most effective way to lose weight, and buying the loudest speaker together the most effective headache tablets.
才能撇清G这个不食人间烟火的艺术家和为五斗米折腰的匠人,以及无利不起早的商贾之间令人尴尬的关系。
This clarifies the awkward relationship between G, the artist, who is otherworldly, and the craftsmen who must bow for their food, and merchants who only do things for their own benefit.
他们问了许多问题,而副总统没有给出令人满意的答案。
they asked him a whole lot of questions and didn't get good answers.
唉,那些没有互联网,朋友间还能拌嘴的日子多令人向往呀!使用搜寻引擎让人不记得一些知识,而是记得如何得到这些信息。
Ah, those days without the internet. It makes people so nostalgic to think back to the days when friends could bicker over these things! Using search engines makes people forget their knowledge, and instead just remember how to access this information.
还算有点常识呀你,狭义相对论是爱因斯坦在广义相对论发现前十年制定的,当时已令人震惊地揭示了时间的流逝并非绝对,但与牛顿在1687年所阐述的经典引力定律,在许多方面都不一致。
So you do have some general knowledge. Special relativity was defined by Einstein ten years before he came to the theory of general relativity. At that time, he'd already revealed to everyone's surprise that the flow of time was not absolute, but it was also not entirely the same as the classic laws of gravitation which he described in 1687, in many aspects.
连个国民住宅都盖不起来,令人失望。
They can't even build a single council house, it's really disappointing.
对我们东方人来说,真正恐怖的应该是日韩的一些电影,这些电影没有很血腥的画面,但会在一些现实的环境中营造令人窒息的气氛,让我感觉一转身就能遇见鬼,代表电影有《鬼娃娃花子》、《午夜凶铃》等。
For us Easterners, real horror is the Japanese and Korean films, films that don't have scenes of gore, but rather involve certain real-life situations will create an atmosphere of suffocation, giving me the feeling that I'll see a ghost as soon as I turn around. Representative films include 'Hanako-san' and 'The Ring'.
嗯嗯,这幸福感真的是很确定,而且令人满足的。
Yeah, this sense of happiness really does feel certain and it very satisfying.
魏导,好久不见,没想到你也有今天。在娱乐圈做了那么多伤天害理的事情,老天爷终于让你得到了报应。我已经选择了离开,远离我的家人和朋友,也远离这个令人生厌的娱乐圈。当然,在离开之前,我也向警方举报了你以前干过的那些见不得人的勾当,碰巧重案组的陈警官和我长得很像,所以他们就演了一出引蛇出洞的好戏。人生如戏,戏如人生,每个人都有自己不同的角色,自己的戏还得由自己来演。不过名和利,我算是看透了,你呢?
Mr. Wei, long time no see. I never thought this day would come. All the atrocious things you've done in the entertainment industry, and now God has finally lined up your retribution. I've already decided to go away, to leave my family and friends, and also to get away from this disgusting industry. Of course, before leaving, I reported to the police all those shameful things you've done. Coincidentally, the Serious Crimes Unit's Officer Chen looks a lot like me, and so they put on a good show and lured you out into the open. Life is like a drama, and dramas are like life; everyone has a different role to play, but you still have to play your role. However, fame and fortune, I think I can pretty much see right through all that now. How about you?