减肥 (減肥)
jiǎn féi
Pinyin
Definition
减肥 (減肥)
-
- to lose weight
Character Decomposition
Idioms (4)
损公肥私
- 1 to damage the public interest for personal profit (idiom); personal profit at public expense
- 2 venal and selfish behavior
食言而肥
- 1 lit. to grow fat eating one's words (idiom)
- 2 fig. not to live up to one's promises
饫甘餍肥
- 1 to live off the fat of the land (idiom)
- 2 to have a luxurious lifestyle
马无夜草不肥,人无外快不富
- 1 a horse cannot get fat without an extra ration, a man cannot get rich without an extra income (idiom)
Sample Sentences
购买那些令人垂涎三尺的食物,和最为有效的能消除吃了它们而引起副作用的减肥方法,购买音量最大的音响和最有疗效的头痛片。
buying those mouth-watering foods, which have the side effects of being the most effective way to lose weight, and buying the loudest speaker together the most effective headache tablets.
原来如此,怪不得每次一口气喝下一大瓶水后都会觉得肠胃不适,诶,老赵,夏天快到了,你说喝水可以减肥吗?
Ah, so that's how it is. No wonder every time I drink a big bottle of water in one go, my digestive system feels a little off. Agh, Lao Zhao, summer's almost here, can drinking water help you lose weight?
嗨,你光喝水不吃饭当然会瘦,除了会瘦还会挂。不过讲正经的,如果你真想瘦,餐前喝水,还真能减轻饥饿感,这样食物的摄入量当然就减少了,减肥还不是自然而然的事。
Hey, of course you'll get thin if you only drink water and stop eating, but as well as getting thin, you'll die too. But more seriously, if you really want to get thinner, drinking water before a meal can really make you feel less hungry, which, of course, will reduce your food intake. That way losing weight will happen naturally.
那都是去年的事儿啦,现在已经四月啦,最近我们圈儿里流传着一句激励人心的“话四月不减肥,五月徒伤悲”!
That was all last year, now it's already April. There's a motivational saying that's going around Moments "If you don't diet in April, there's no point regretting it in May".
你又想减肥,又想吃甜食,鱼与熊掌不可兼得,只能选一个。
You want to lose weight and also want to eat dessert. You can't have it both ways. You can only choose one.
减肥药我可不吃,万一吃错了药,那就糟了。
I don't take diet pills. If you take the wrong pills, you're in trouble.
你这人呐,舍不得力气,吃不了苦,你只能去吃减肥药了。
Hmm... this guy! You can't be bothered to expend the energy or to put yourself through a bit of pain. So the only option you have is to go and take some diet pills.
哎,那你游泳去吧,既能减肥又是有氧运动。你要是天天游,不出俩月,也能练成完美身材。
Ah, then why don't you go swimming? You can diet and do some aerobic exercise at the same time. If you swim every day, you'll get yourself a nice body in less than two months.
你这么瘦,还需要运动减肥啊?
You're so thin, do you really need to work out to lose weight?
谁说运动只是为了减肥?运动可以保持身体健康,还可以减轻压力,所以我常常是一下班就来。
Who said working out was just to lose weight? Exercising keeps the body healthy and it can reduce stress, so I normally come straight from work.