前夕
qián xī
Pinyin
Definition
前夕
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- eve
- the day before
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 before
- 2 prior to
- 3 ago
- 4 previously
- 5 beforehand
- 1 before
- 2 formerly
- 3 previous
- 4 ago
- 1 front
- 2 forward
- 3 ahead
- 4 first
- 5 top (followed by a number)
- 6 future
- 7 ago
- 8 before
- 9 BC (e.g. 前293年)
- 10 former
- 11 formerly
- 1 lunar New Year's Eve
- 1 previous generations
- 2 previous incarnation (Buddhism)
Idioms (20)
一夕数惊
- 1 one scare after another (idiom)
- 2 in a constant state of tension
一往无前
- 1 to advance courageously (idiom)
- 2 to press forward
一朝一夕
- 1 lit. one morning and one evening (idiom)
- 2 fig. in a short period of time
- 3 overnight
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
- 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
不顾前后
- 1 regardless of what's before or after (idiom); rushing blindly into sth
Sample Sentences
70年前,中华人民共和国成立前夕,美国国务卿艾奇逊在关于送呈《美国与中国的关系》白皮书致总统杜鲁门的信中说:“近代史上每一个中国政府必须面临的第一个问题,是解决人民的吃饭问题,到现在为止,没有一个政府是成功的。”
70 years ago, on the eve of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, US Secretary of State Acheson said in a letter to President Truman on the White Paper on the relationship between the United States and China: "The first problem that every Chinese government must face in modern history is solving the people’s food problems, no government has been successful so far.”