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冬天

dōng tiān

Pinyin

Definition

冬天

dōng tiān

winter
CL:個|个[gè]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

今天

jīn tiān

1 today
2 at the present
3 now

天

tiān

1 day
2 sky
3 heaven

天下

tiān xià

1 land under heaven
2 the whole world
3 the whole of China
4 realm
5 rule

天天

tiān tiān

1 every day

天气

tiān qì

1 weather

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天

yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān

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

一个天南，一个地北

yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi

1 to live miles apart (idiom)

一柱擎天

yī zhù qíng tiān

1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)
2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders

一步登天

yī bù dēng tiān

1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success

三天不打，上房揭瓦

sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ

1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
2 spare the rod, spoil the child

Sample Sentences

在周代，人们就开始用冰窖储藏冬天的冰块以备夏用。

zài Zhōudài ，rénmen jiù kāishǐ yòng bīngjiào chǔcáng dōngtiān de bīngkuài yǐ bèi Xià yòng 。

In the Zhou Dynasty, people had begun to use icehouse to store winter ice for summer use.

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我与父亲不相见已二年余了，我最不能忘记的是他的背影。那年冬天，祖母死了，父亲的差使也交卸了，正是祸不单行的日子，我从北京到徐州，打算跟着父亲奔丧回家。到徐州见着父亲，看见满院狼藉的东西，又想起祖母，不禁簌簌地流下眼泪。父亲说，“事已如此，不必难过，好在天无绝人之路！”

wǒ yǔ fùqin bù xiāngjiàn yǐ èr nián yú le ，wǒ zuì bù néng wàngjì de shì tā de bèiyǐng 。nànián dōngtiān ，zǔmǔ sǐ le ，fùqin de chāishi yě jiāoxiè le ，zhèngshì huòbùdānxíng de rìzi ，wǒ cóng Běijīng dào Xúzhōu ，dǎsuàn gēn zhe fùqin bēnsāng huíjiā 。dào Xúzhōu jiàn zhe fùqin ，kànjiàn mǎnyuàn lángjí de dōngxi ，yòu xiǎng qǐ zǔmǔ ，bùjīn sùsù de liú xià yǎnlèi 。fùqin shuō ，“shì yǐ rúcǐ ，búbì nánguò ，hǎozài tiānwújuérénzhīlù ！”

It's been over two years since I last saw my father and the picture that has been burned into my memory is the silhouette of his back. That winter, my grandmother passed away and my father was let off from his job. Those really were times where bad things came in pairs. I travelled from Beijing to Xu Zhou to meet up with my father, so that we could travel home together to attend the funeral. When I saw my father in Xu Zhou and the house in totally disarray, memories of my grandmother came flooding back. Tears stream down my face. My father said: "It is what is is. There's no need to be sad. There's always a way out."

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先不说炸鸡啤酒营养价值到底有多高，就说什么时候吃这组合“应景”吧，那必须得是冬天下初雪的时候啊，《来自星星的你》看了吗？那可是教科书级别的。

xiān bù shuō zhájī píjiǔ yíngyǎng jiàzhí dàodǐ yǒu duō gāo ，jiù shuō shénme shíhou chī zhè zǔhé “yìngjǐng ”ba ，nà bìxū děi shì dōngtiān xià chūxuě de shíhou ā ，《láizì xīngxing de nǐ 》kàn le ma ？nà kě shì jiàokēshū jíbié de 。

First let's not go into how nutritional fried chicken and beer is, but rather when this combo is most appropriate to eat. That is as the first snow of winter falls. Have you seen 'My Love from the Star'? That's like a textbook.

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时间过得真快，转眼秋天就要过去了，冬天又要来了。气温越来越低，出来锻炼可要多穿点衣服了。

shíjiān guò de zhēn kuài ，zhuǎn yǎn qiūtiān jiùyào guòqù le ，dōngtiān yòu yào lái le 。qìwēn yuèláiyuè dī ，chūlái duànliàn kě yào duō chuān diǎnr yīfu le 。

Time really flies, autumn will be over in the blink of an eye, and winter will be here again. The temperature will get lower and lower, so you'll have to wear more clothes when you come out to train.

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上海的冬天没北京的冬天冷。

Shànghǎi de dōngtiān méi Běijīng de dōngtiān lěng 。

The winter in Shanghai is not as cold as the winter in Beijing.

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冬天太短太热了

dōngtiān tài duǎn tài rè le

The winters are too short and too warm.

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我一直在想，夏天不就应该去有阳光的地方吗？南半球那时候是冬天...

wǒ yīzhí zài xiǎng ，xiàtiān bù jiù yīnggāi qù yǒu yángguāng de dìfang ma ？nánbànqiú nà shíhou shì dōngtiān ...

I've been thinking, shouldn't we go somewhere sunny in summer? It is winter in the southern hemisphere at that time...