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1 son
2 child
3 seed
4 egg
5 small thing
6 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat
7 Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]
8 ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)

孩子

hái zi

1 child

Idioms (20)

一瓶子不响，半瓶子晃荡

yī píng zi bù xiǎng , bàn píng zi huàng dang

1 lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom)
2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise

不入虎穴，焉得虎子

bù rù hǔ xué , yān dé hǔ zǐ

1 How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

不见兔子不撒鹰

bù jiàn tù zi bù sā yīng

1 you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom)
2 one doesn't act without some incentive

乱臣贼子

luàn chén zéi zǐ

1 rebels and traitors (idiom)
2 general term for scoundrel

仁人君子

rén rén jūn zǐ

1 people of good will (idiom); charitable person

Sample Sentences

当然不是要全部符合才算是鸟类，符合越多种，就越像鸟，大概是这样，所以一般来说，鸵鸟不会用来当作鸟的典型例子吧。

dāngrán bùshì yào quánbù fúhé cái suàn shì niǎolèi ，fúhé yuè duō zhǒng ，jiù yuè xiàng niǎo ，dàgài shì zhèyàng ，suǒyǐ yībānláishuō ，tuóniǎo bùhuì yònglái dàngzuò niǎo de diǎnxíng lìzi ba 。

Of course they don't have to meet these conditions in order to count as a bird, it's just the more that you meet them, the more like a bird you are, that's more or less how it is. So normally ostriches wouldn't be taken as a classic example of a bird.

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为什么是知更鸟？为什么不是鸽子、杜鹃或麻雀？讲到鸟，我第一个想到的例子就是它们。

wèishénme shì zhīgèngniǎo ？wèishénme bùshì gēzi 、Dùjuān huò máquè ？jiǎngdào niǎo ，wǒ dì yī ge xiǎngdào de lìzi jiùshì tāmen 。

Why is it the robin? Why isn't it the pigeon, the cuckoo or the sparrow? When you mention birds, those are the first examples I think of.

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谋事在人成事在天嘛，不努力一把怎么知道没缘分呢，再说了，男人不坏女人不爱，你不就是活生生的例子。

móu shì zài rén chéng shì zài tiān ma ，bù nǔlì yī bǎ zěnme zhīdào méi yuánfèn ne ，zàishuō le ，nánrén bù huài nǚrén bù ài ，nǐ bù jiùshì huóshēngshēng de lìzi 。

The gods help those who help themselves, eh? If you don’t make a move how do you know that you’re not fated to be together? And another thing, women like a bad guy, aren’t you living proof of that?

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过去几个共享经济成功的例子，像优步、Airbnb最后还不是衍生一堆问题。没有公德心，怎么共享？我看根本是共业！

guòqù jǐ ge gòngxiǎng jīngjì chénggōng de lìzi ，xiàng yōubù 、Airbnb zuìhòu háibùshì yǎnshēng yīduī wèntí 。méiyǒu gōngdéxīn ，zěnme gòngxiǎng ？wǒ kàn gēnběn shì gòngyè ！

Past successful examples of sharing economy initiatives, like Uber and AirBnB, also led to a load of problems in the end too. If you don't have a common sense of decency, then how can you share? In my eyes it's basically collective karma!

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那，拿我朋友小周做例子吧，小周你也熟悉吧，当初名校毕业，家人都对他寄予厚望，原来他在银行业也做得风生水起，游刃有余的。

nà ，ná wǒ péngyou Xiǎo Zhōu zuò lìzi ba ，Xiǎo Zhōu nǐ yě shúxī ba ，dāngchū míngxiào bìyè ，jiārén dōu duì tā jìyǔ hòuwàng ，yuánlái tā zài yínhángyè yě zuò de fēngshēngshuǐqǐ ，yóurènyǒuyú de 。

Then, take my friend Xiaozhou as an example. You know Xiaozhou, right? He graduated from a famous school, and his family had high hopes for him. He started out really making a mark when he was working at a bank, handling his job with ease.

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那你各举一个例子给简单说明一下。

nà nǐ gè jǔ yī gè lìzi gěi jiǎndān shuōmíng yīxià 。

Then can you give examples of both and give a brief explanation of each.

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举个例子，《左传·襄公二十七年》中记载，齐景公和郑简公为解救被晋国拘禁的卫献公而带领侍从出使晋国。在如此微妙的外交情境中，其中的外交辞令引用了无数《诗经》之语。

jǔ gè lìzi ，《Zuǒzhuàn ·Xiānggōng èrshí qī nián 》zhōng jìzǎi ，Qíjǐnggōng hé Zhèngjiǎngōng wèi jiějiù bèi jìnguó jūjìn de Wèixiàngōng ér dàilǐng shìcóng chūshǐ jìnguó 。zài rúcǐ wēimiào de wàijiāo qíngjìng zhōng ，qízhōngde wàijiāo cílìng yǐnyòng le wúshù 《shījīng 》zhī yǔ 。

As an example, in the records of the 27th year of the reign of Duke Xiang of Lu in the Commentary of Zuo, to rescue Duke Xian of Wei from imprisonment by the Jin, Duke Jing of Qi and Duke Jian of Zheng led a delegation to Jin. In such particular diplomatic circumstances, the diplomatic rhetoric made innumerable references to poems in the Shijing.

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能举个例子吗？

néng jǔ ge lìzi ma ？

Can you give an example?

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举例来说、举个例子

jǔlì láishuō 、jǔ ge lìzi

for example, to give(raise) an example

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拿...当例子

ná . . . dāng lìzi

to use ... as an example

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