入土
rù tǔ
Pinyin
Definition
入土
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- to bury
- buried
- interred
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一拥而入
- 1 to swarm in (of people etc) (idiom)
上天入地
- 1 lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom)
- 2 fig. to go to great lengths
- 3 to search heaven and earth
上天无路,入地无门
- 1 lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be at the end of one's rope
- 3 to be trapped in a hopeless situation
不入虎穴,焉得虎子
- 1 How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
乘虚而入
- 1 to enter by exploiting a weak spot (idiom); to take advantage of a lapse
Sample Sentences
你才封建迷信呢!中国人讲究“入土为安”,谁愿意被烧成灰啊!火化用电,用汽油,不也是浪费资源吗?而且火化了也要埋的。
You're the superstitious one! Chinese people like to lay their dead to rest by burying them. Who would want to be burned into ashes? Cremation uses electricity, it uses gas - isn't that a wate of national resources too? Also, there's still a burial with cremation.
傻!开这种派对哪有和老婆商量的。婚姻是爱情的坟墓,你都要入土了,可不得抓住这最后的机会,疯狂地玩一把。
Moron! This isn't the kind of party you discuss with your wife. Marriage is the death of romance, you're going six feet under. This might be your last chance at an opportunity like this. Let's just go wild.