写下 (寫下)
xiě xià
Pinyin

Definition

写下 (寫下)
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xiě xià
  1. to write down

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

一下
yī xià
  1. 1 (used after a verb) give it a go
  2. 2 to do (sth for a bit to give it a try)
  3. 3 one time
  4. 4 once
  5. 5 in a while
  6. 6 all of a sudden
  7. 7 all at once
下
xià
  1. 1 down
  2. 2 downwards
  3. 3 below
  4. 4 lower
  5. 5 later
  6. 6 next (week etc)
  7. 7 second (of two parts)
  8. 8 to decline
  9. 9 to go down
  10. 10 to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc)
  11. 11 measure word to show the frequency of an action
下午
xià wǔ
  1. 1 afternoon
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
  3. 3 p.m.
下载
xià zǎi
  1. 1 to download
  2. 2 also pr. [xià zài]
天下
tiān xià
  1. 1 land under heaven
  2. 2 the whole world
  3. 3 the whole of China
  4. 4 realm
  5. 5 rule

Idioms (20)

三下两下
sān xià liǎng xià
  1. 1 quickly and effortlessly (idiom)
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
上有天堂，下有苏杭
shàng yǒu tiān táng , xià yǒu Sū Háng
  1. 1 lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭|苏杭[Sū Háng] below (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven
上有政策，下有对策
shàng yǒu zhèng cè , xià yǒu duì cè
  1. 1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)
上有老下有小
shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo
  1. 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
  3. 3 sandwich generation

Sample Sentences

嗯...或许是因为写下这些特征的是西方人，如果这个物种描述法是你发明的，可能就是用麻雀当原型了。
ng4 ...huòxǔ shì yīnwèi xiěxià zhèxiē tèzhēng de shì xīfāngrén ，rúguǒ zhè ge wùzhǒng miáoshùfǎ shì nǐ fāmíng de ，kěnéng jiùshì yòng máquè dāng yuánxíng le 。
Hmm... perhaps it is because the people who wrote down these features were Westerners. If you'd invented this form of description, maybe the sparrow would have been used as the original form.
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是呀！早在过去刚开始流行书本的时候，苏格拉底就曾说，人越是习惯写下自己的想法，及阅读他人的想法，记忆就越差。
shì ya ！zǎozài guòqù gāng kāishǐ liúxíng shūběn de shíhou ，Sūgélādǐ jiù céng shuō ，rén yuèshì xíguàn xiěxià zìjǐ de xiǎngfǎ ，jí yuèdú tārén de xiǎngfǎ ，jìyì jiù yuè chà 。
Yeah! Long ago when books were just becoming popular, Socrates once said, the more people get used to writing down their thoughts, and reading the thoughts of others, the more people's memory gets worse.
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没问题，我们先来看词，作者是苏轼——苏东坡，他在丙辰年的中秋节，喝酒大醉，于是趁着酒兴写下了这首词。苏轼写作的风格以豪放著称。
méiwèntí ，wǒmen xiān lái kàn cí ，zuòzhě shì Sū Shì ——Sū Dōngpō ，tā zài bǐngchén nián de zhōngqiūjié ，hējiǔ dà zuì ，yúshì chèn zhe jiǔxìng xiě xià le zhè shǒu cí 。Sū Shì xiězuò de fēnggé yǐ háofàng zhùchēng 。
No problem, let's first take a look at the words. The author was Su Shi, also known as Su Dongpo. On the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1076 he got very drunk, so he made use of the high spirits the drink gave him to write down this ci poem. Su Shi's writing style is famous for its unrestrained style.
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我正要把这部戏的名字写下来，老陈问我最近出了什么剧，我记不得。
wǒ zhèng yào bǎ zhè bù xì de míngzi xiěxiàlai ，Lǎo Chén wèn wǒ zuìjìn chū le shénme jù ，wǒ jìbudé 。
I was just about to write down the name of this drama, Lao Chen asked me what dramas have been released lately. I can never remember them.
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写下灿烂的诗篇
xiěxià cànlàn de shīpiān
Writing magnificent poetry
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嗯，这个可以考虑。我先写下来。大家再想想别的。
ng4 ，zhè ge kěyǐ kǎolǜ 。wǒ xiān xiě xiàlai 。dàjiā zài xiǎng xiang bié de 。
Yeah, we can consider that. I'll write it down. Everyone think of some more ideas.
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