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剥 (剝)

bō

Pinyin

Definition

剥 (剝)

bō

to peel
to skin
to flay
to shuck

剥 (剝)

bāo

to peel
to skin
to shell
to shuck

Character Decomposition

Related Words (11)

剥

bāo

1 to peel
2 to skin
3 to shell
4 to shuck

剥夺

bō duó

1 to deprive
2 to expropriate
3 to strip (sb of his property)

剥削

bō xuē

1 to exploit
2 exploitation

剥掉

bō diào

1 to peel off
2 to strip off

剥皮

bāo pí

1 to skin
2 to flay
3 to excoriate
4 to peel
5 to bark at sb
6 to physically punish sb

Idioms (2)

抽丝剥茧

chōu sī bāo jiǎn

1 lit. to spin silk from cocoons
2 fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom)

生吞活剥

shēng tūn huó bō

1 to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically

Sample Sentences

啊哟，瘦死的骆驼比马大。绝大多数国际组织都被发达国家操控，制定一些霸王条款来剥削发展中国家。世贸组织也不例外。

āyō ，shòusǐ de luòtuo bǐ mǎ dà 。juédàduōshù guójìzǔzhī dōu bèi fādáguójiā cāokòng ，zhìdìng yīxiē bàwángtiáokuǎn lái bōxuē fāzhǎnzhōngguójiā 。shìmàozǔzhī yě bù lìwài 。

Oh, a starving camel is still bigger than a horse. The majority of international organizations are controlled by developed countries. They come up with some despotic policies to exploit developing countries. The World Trade Organization is no different.

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不公平是事实。但是说它是剥削工具就有点过分了。而且很多发达国家也给了发展中国家很多资助。

bùgōngping shì shìshí 。dànshì shuō tā shì bōxuē gōngjù jiù yǒudiǎn guòfèn le 。érqiě hěn duō fādáguójiā yě gěi le fāzhǎnzhōngguójiā hěn duō zīzhù 。

It's true that it's not fair. But to say that it's a tool of exploitation is a bit over the top. And a lot of developed countries have given developing countries a lot of financial aid.

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你少来这套，苏格拉底说过这句话吗？其实书籍对认知能力是有加强效果的。但是搜寻功能却剥夺了我们思考的机会。

nǐ shǎolái zhè tào ，Sūgélādǐ shuō guò zhè jù huà ma ？qíshí shūjí duì rènzhī nénglì shì yǒu jiāqiáng xiàoguǒ de 。dànshì sōuxún gōngnéng què bōduó le wǒmen sīkǎo de jīhuì 。

Come off it! Did Socrates really say that? Actually books improved people's knowledge. However the search function has robbed us of our opportunity to consider things.

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只要能赚到钱，这钱我交，这个月我省点就行了，现在家里都盼着我能早点赚到钱，我一定要混出个样子来。（张铁柱从衣服内袋里掏出一个塑料袋，层层剥开，数出一沓小面值的钞票点给骗子），唉，这里是九十八块五，已经是我身上所有的钱了，来，你拿着，带我去厂里吧。

zhǐyào néng zhuàn dào qián ，zhè qián wǒ jiāo ，zhè ge yuè wǒ shěng diǎnr jiù xíng le ，xiànzài jiālǐ dōu pàn zhe wǒ néng zǎodiǎn zhuàn dào qián ，wǒ yīdìng yào hùnchūgèyàngzi lái 。（Zhāng Tiězù cóng yīfu nèidài lǐ tāochū yī gè sùliào dài ，céngcéng bōkāi ，shǔ chū yī tà xiǎo miànzhí de chāopiào diǎnr gěi piànzi ），ài ，zhèlǐ shì jiǔshíbā kuài wǔ ，yǐjīng shì wǒ shēnshàng suǒyǒu de qián le ，lái ，nǐ ná zhe ，dài wǒ qù chǎng lǐ ba 。

As long as I can earn money, I can hand over the deposit. I'll just have to economize a bit this month. My family are all looking to me to earn some money as soon as possible, so I should really make good on it. (Zhang Tiezhu fishes out a plastic bag from an inside pocket, unwraps it layer by layer, and counts out a wad of small face-value notes for the con man). Agh, Here's 98.50. That's all the money I have on me. Here, take it, bring me to the factory.

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加热过的黄酒，营养丰富，酒香四溢，暖胃活血，尤其适合在江南的冬季小酌。在老街的酒铺里，见到那些划乌篷船的老爹爹，坐在四条腿的方桌旁，取一只浅浅的土陶碗，倒一碗黄酒，剥几粒茴香，细品慢嚼，悠然自得。

jiārè guò de huángjiǔ ，yíngyǎng fēngfù ，jiǔ xiāng sìyì ，nuǎn wèi huó xiě ，yóuqí shìhé zài Jiāngnán de dōngjì xiǎozhuó 。zài lǎojiē de jiǔpù lǐ ，jiàndào nàxiē huá wūpéngchuán de lǎodiēdie ，zuò zài sì tiáo tuǐ de fāng zhuō páng ，qǔ yī zhī qiǎnqiǎn de tǔtáowǎn ，dào yī wǎn huángjiǔ ，bāo jǐ lì huíxiāng ，xì pǐn màn jiáo ，yōuránzìdé 。

Warm huangjiu is very nutritious and particulary fragrant. It will warm your belly and improve your circulation. It's particularly suitable for drinking in winter in the area south of the Yangtze river. You see those old men who row the famous black-awning boats in the wine shops of the old street sitting beside the four legged square tables, picking up a shallow clay bowl, pouring in huangjiu, and peeling a few aniseed flavoured broad beans, sipping daintily at the wine while chewing slowly, at ease and content.

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先把头和尾巴剥掉，再把身上的壳剥掉。

xiān bǎ tóu hé wěiba bō diào ，zài bǎ shēnshàng de ké bō diào 。

First peel off its head and tail, then peel off the shell on its body.

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剥人皮

bō rén pí

to peel human skin

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剥羊皮

bō yáng pí

to peel sheep's skin