吃药 (吃藥)
chī yào
Pinyin

Definition

吃药 (吃藥)
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chī yào
  1. to take medicine

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

吃
chī
  1. 1 to eat
  2. 2 to consume
  3. 3 to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  4. 4 to eradicate
  5. 5 to destroy
  6. 6 to absorb
  7. 7 to suffer
  8. 8 to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [jí])
吃吃
chī chī
  1. 1 (onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc)
  2. 2 sound of stammering
吃完
chī wán
  1. 1 to finish eating
吃掉
chī diào
  1. 1 to eat up
  2. 2 to consume
吃药
chī yào
  1. 1 to take medicine

Idioms (20)

不听老人言，吃亏在眼前
bù tīng lǎo rén yán , chī kuī zài yǎn qián
  1. 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
兔子不吃窝边草
tù zi bù chī wō biān cǎo
  1. 1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.
又要马儿跑，又要马儿不吃草
yòu yào mǎ r pǎo , yòu yào mǎ r bù chī cǎo
  1. 1 lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too
吃一堑，长一智
chī yī qiàn , zhǎng yī zhì
  1. 1 Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes.
吃不了兜着走
chī bu liǎo dōu zhe zǒu
  1. 1 lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. you'll have to take the consequences

Sample Sentences

还没，我吃药了。
hái méi ，wǒ chīyào le 。
Not yet. I've taken medicine.
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你吃药了吗？
nǐ chīyào le ma ？
Did you take any medication?
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你吃药了吗？
nǐ chīyào le ma ？
Have you taken any medicine?
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糟糕！我忘了吃药！
zāogāo ！wǒ wàng le chīyào ！
Oh no! I forgot to take my medicine!
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真奇怪！吃药就不会疼了，你为什么不吃？
zhēn qíguài ！chīyào jiù bù huì téngle ，nǐ wèishénme bù chī ？
You're so strange! If you take the medicine, then you won't be in pain anymore. Why won't you take it?
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我们觉得能忍就忍。除非疼得太厉害才吃药。
wǒmen juéde néng rěn jiù rěn 。chúfēi téng de tài lìhai cái chīyào 。
We think that if you can bear it, then you should. Only when the pain is really extreme should one take medicine.
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你们那么怕吃药？
nǐmen nàme pà chīyào ？
Why are you so afraid of taking medicine?
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不是怕，我们觉得吃药对身体不好，可能有副作用。我去美国教书的时候，发现有些学生在吃一些奇怪的药。这个在中国绝对不可能发生。
bùshì pà ，wǒmen juéde chīyào duì shēntǐ bù hǎo ，kěnéng yǒu fùzuòyòng 。wǒ qù Měiguó jiāoshū de shíhou ，fāxiàn yǒuxiē xuésheng zài chī yīxiē qíguài de yào 。zhè ge zài Zhōngguó juéduì bù kěnéng fāshēng 。
We're not afraid. We think taking medicine is bad for your body and might have side effects. When I went to America to teach, I noticed some students were taking some weird medicines. In China, there's no way this could happen.
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吃药？吃什么药？
chīyào ？chī shénme yào ？
Taking medicine? What medicine?
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肯定不怎么样。估计都是味道怪怪的，跟吃药一样。
kěndìng bù zěnmeyàng 。gūjì dōu shì wèidao guàiguàide ，gēn chīyào yīyàng 。
It's definitely not very good. I bet the taste is strange and that it's like taking medicine.
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