全食
quán shí
Pinyin

Definition

全食
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quán shí
  1. total eclipse

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

全
Quán
  1. 1 surname Quan
全部
quán bù
  1. 1 whole
  2. 2 entire
  3. 3 complete
安全
ān quán
  1. 1 safe
  2. 2 secure
  3. 3 safety
  4. 4 security
完全
wán quán
  1. 1 complete
  2. 2 whole
  3. 3 totally
  4. 4 entirely
食
shí
  1. 1 to eat
  2. 2 food
  3. 3 animal feed
  4. 4 eclipse

Idioms (20)

三旬九食
sān xún jiǔ shí
  1. 1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation
  3. 3 in dire straits
五味俱全
wǔ wèi jù quán
  1. 1 a complete gamut of all five flavors (idiom); every flavor under the sun
人为财死，鸟为食亡
rén wèi cái sǐ , niǎo wèi shí wáng
  1. 1 lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich
全民皆兵
quán mín jiē bīng
  1. 1 to bring the entire nation to arms (idiom)
全神贯注
quán shén guàn zhù
  1. 1 to concentrate one's attention completely (idiom)
  2. 2 with rapt attention

Sample Sentences

是啊，为了让我们看到日全食，阿拉斯加航空公司延迟起飞了二十五分钟。
shì a ，wèile ràng wǒmen kàndào rìquánshí ，Ālāsījiā hángkōnggōngsī yánchí qǐfēi le èrshíwǔ fēnzhōng 。
Yes, in order for us to see the total solar eclipse, Alaska Airlines delayed take off by 25 minutes.
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天哪！这张飞机上的日全食照片是你拍的吗？
tiānnǎ ！zhè zhāng fēijī shàng de rìquánshí zhàopiàn shì nǐ pāi de ma ？
Gosh! Did you take this photograph of a total solar eclipse on a plane?
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你太幸运了，这次的完美日全食可是三百五十年才会发生一次啊。
nǐ tài xìngyùn le ，zhècì de wánměi rìquánshí kěshì sānbǎiwǔshí nián cái huì fāshēng yīcì ā 。
You're so lucky, this perfect solar eclipse occurs only once every 350 years.
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是啊，这次日全食主要在印度尼西亚，我们航班经过的地区刚好是观赏日全食最棒的位置！
shì a ，zhècì rìquánshí zhǔyào zài Yìndùníxīyà ，wǒmen hángbān jīngguò de dìqū gānghǎo shì guānshǎng rìquánshí zuìbàng de wèizhi ！
Yes, this total solar eclipse was mostly in Indonesia, the area our flight passed through was the best location for viewing the total solar eclipse.
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哈，我明年还想到美国再拍一次日全食呢，如果运气好的话还可以拍到流星雨，一举两得！
hā ，wǒ míngnián hái xiǎng dào Měiguó zài pāi yīcì rìquánshí ne ，rúguǒ yùnqi hǎo dehuà hái kěyǐ pāi dào liúxīngyǔ ，yījǔliǎngdé ！
Ha, next year I want to go to the United States to film another total solar eclipse, if I'm lucky I might even get a photo of a meteor shower, to catch two birds with one stone.
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其实到现在，我还不知道日全食是怎么来的呢。
qíshí dào xiànzài ，wǒ hái bù zhīdào rìquánshí shì zěnme lái de ne 。
Actually up to now, I still don't know how a solar eclipse happens.
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