原地
yuán dì
Pinyin
Definition
原地
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- (in) the original place
- the place where one currently is
- place of origin
- local (product)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一个天南,一个地北
- 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一败涂地
- 1 failed and wiped over the floor (idiom); to fail utterly
- 2 a crushing defeat
- 3 beaten and in a hopeless position
上天入地
- 1 lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom)
- 2 fig. to go to great lengths
- 3 to search heaven and earth
上天无路,入地无门
- 1 lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be at the end of one's rope
- 3 to be trapped in a hopeless situation
五体投地
- 1 to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb
Sample Sentences
我现在好像遇到学习的一个瓶颈了。这段时间我总觉得我的中文水平一直在原地踏步,不知道怎么突破这个瓶颈。真是郁闷啊!
It seems like now I have reached a learning plateau. Lately I always feel that my Chinese level has been at a standstill and I don't know how to break through this bottleneck. It's so depressing!
这不是原来的地方吗?我们兜了一大圈又回到了原地。你会不会看错地图了?
Isn't this where we started out? We did a big circle and arrived back at our original location. Could it be that you read the map wrong?