号子 (號子)
hào zi
Pinyin
Definition
号子 (號子)
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- work chant
- prison cell
- type
- sort
- mark
- sign
- signal
- (Tw) brokerage firm
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 son
- 1 woman
- 2 female
- 1 wife and children
- 1 son
- 2 child
- 3 seed
- 4 egg
- 5 small thing
- 6 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat
- 7 Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]
- 8 ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
- 1 child
Idioms (20)
一瓶子不响,半瓶子晃荡
- 1 lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom)
- 2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise
不入虎穴,焉得虎子
- 1 How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
不见兔子不撒鹰
- 1 you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom)
- 2 one doesn't act without some incentive
乱臣贼子
- 1 rebels and traitors (idiom)
- 2 general term for scoundrel
仁人君子
- 1 people of good will (idiom); charitable person
Sample Sentences
哎呀,瞧你这张嘴说的。在这间号子里,老赵,没人察言观色的本领高过你。该不会赚赔输赢的数字多少,你也了如指掌吧!?
Agh! Look who is talking. In our brokerage, Mr Zhao, no one's better at reading the market than you. I bet you're as familiar with all the earning and loss figures as with the back of your hand!?
您这是哪儿的话。我倒希望我看股像我看人那么准就好了!这间号子里,我谁都看不上眼,我就要向您请教呢。
What are you saying. I wish that I was as good at reading stocks as I am at reading people! There's no one in this brokerage who I would look to for advice more than you.
啐,这号子里多的是内线消息,到我们这儿的内线消息,你说还值几个钱呀?怕都帮别人抬轿去了!我说啊,靠山山倒,靠人人跑,这年头还是自己最靠谱!
Pshaw! There's nothing but inside information in this brokerage. By the time the message from the inside source reaches here, it's never worth much, is it? We're just playing into other people's hands by pushing stock prices up! I tell you, you can't rely on anything or anyone in this business, you can only rely on yourself these days!
亏你在我们这间号子还自诩为科技专家?老赵,你与你的手机只容许一人有智能吗?当然是找个APP帮你筛选呀!
You don't call yourself the tech whiz of this brokerage for nothing, do you? Mr Zhao, is the only thing smart about you your smartphone? Of course you can find an app to filter them out for you!
唉唷,前阵子天天来号子报到,看得我老毛病又犯了!家里那口子,死活不让我来看股,我这会儿可是冒死偷溜来的…怎么样了?我们那支股,挺过去了没有?
Agh, previously I came to the brokerage every day, but then my old ailment started playing up again from watching stock prices! The wife was determined to keep me from coming to watch the stock market whatever she does, so I'm risking my life to sneak out today... How's it been? Has that stock of ours managed to tough it out?
唉,说到跳楼,你听说咱们号子孙太的儿子,那个刚念大学,满口APPLE的苹果铁粉呀,听说他辍了学也疯炒股,后来融资被断头了。有一晚想不开,真跳了楼了!幸亏命大,只摔断了腿。
Ah, speaking of jumping off buildings, did you hear that the son of Mrs Sun from our brokerage, the one who had just started at university and who is always going on about how great Apple is. Well, I hear that he quit his studies and started to speculate like crazy on the stock market. In the end he was forced into liquidation. One night, he couldn't cope with it all and jumped off a building! Lucky for him he only broke a leg.
难怪几星期没见到孙太了…我就觉得怪,我们这阵子驻守在号子,吃喝拉撒都在这儿,如今她的老位子收拾得干干净净的,看起来怪不习惯呢。
No wonder I haven't seen Mrs Sun about for a few weeks... I thought it was weird that we've all been here at the brokerage going about our normal routine, while her old seat was all tidy looking, it seemed so strange.
孙太也真是想不开,现在怪起自己了,说自己不该整天泡在号子里,回家后也开口闭口都是股票经,儿子当然也难免受到她的影响啦!
Mrs Sun really can't deal with it and has started to blame herself, saying that she shouldn't have spent all her time at the brokerage and then chattered on about stocks on returning home. Of course she thinks her son would be influenced by all that!
也是,总之孙太现在绝口不提炒股,说这辈子再也不踏进号子了!
That's true. Anyway, Mrs Sun refuses to bring up speculation on the stock market and swears she'll never set foot in a brokerage again,