双人 (雙人)
shuāng rén
Pinyin
Definition
双人 (雙人)
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- two-person
- double
- pair
- tandem
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 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
一鸣惊人
- 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
三人成虎
- 1 three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact
三人行,必有我师
- 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
- 2 you have sth to learn from everyone
三个女人一台戏
- 1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
Sample Sentences
你知道现在要在敬老院找一个空床位有多难吗?你倒好,一天一个主意!考虑到咱妈的腿脚不好,我还托了熟人,特意找了个一楼的双人间。你要真为她老人家着想,就赶紧送她去!
Do you know how hard it is to find a spot at a nursing home these days? You're actually doing OK, with just one idea at a time. When I thought of how our mom's feet are no good, I even asked a friend to help, and specially found a double room on the first floor. If you really think about what's best for her, hurry up and send her off!
没问题。帮您搭配双人套餐,两杯可乐、一份爆米花,这样有折扣,好吗?
No problem. I'll also get you a two person combo meal; two cokes, one popcorn. Doing it this way means you get a discount, is that ok?
对。“很”的部首也在左边,叫“双人旁”。看,有两个撇。
Right. And in the character for "very," the radical is also on the left. It's called "the double person radical." Look, it has two falling-left strokes.
哦,单人旁,双人旁,两点水,三点水,还挺形象的。
Oh-- "single person," "double person," "two-dot ice," "three-dot water." And they're actually pretty good depictions.
双人拦网。
Two-person block at the net.