同龄人 (同齡人)
tóng líng rén
Pinyin

Definition

同龄人 (同齡人)
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tóng líng rén
  1. peer
  2. one's contemporary
  3. person of the same age

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

人
rén
  1. 1 man
  2. 2 person
  3. 3 people
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
  5. 5 classifier: 位 wèi
人生
rén shēng
  1. 1 life (one's time on earth)
同
tóng
  1. 1 (used in given names)
  2. 2 variant: 同 tóng
别人
bié ren
  1. 1 other people
  2. 2 others
  3. 3 other person
女人
nǚ rén
  1. 1 woman

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一掬同情之泪
yī jū tóng qíng zhī lèi
  1. 1 to shed tears of sympathy (idiom)
一视同仁
yī shì tóng rén
  1. 1 to treat everyone equally favorably (idiom); not to discriminate between people
一鸣惊人
yī míng jīng rén
  1. 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
三人成虎
sān rén chéng hǔ
  1. 1 three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact

Sample Sentences

嗯，差两三岁就算同龄人。要是有比我小两三岁的男人追我，我也会考虑的。
ng4 ，chà liǎng sān suì jiùsuàn tónglíngrén 。yàoshì yǒu bǐ wǒ xiǎo liǎng sān suì de nánrén zhuī wǒ ，wǒ yě huì kǎolǜ de 。
Yeah. A difference of two or three years is pretty much the same age. If a man two or three years younger than me pursued me, I'd also consider it.
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是啊。你们俩也是80后，喜欢同龄人写的东西吗？
shì a 。nǐmen liǎ yě shì bālíng hòu ，xǐhuan tónglíngrén xiě de dōngxi ma ？
That's right. You two were born in the 80's – do you like what your contemporaries are writing?
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现在和以前不一样的。现在生活水平高，物质丰富。而且都希望下一代能比自己好，能在他们同龄人中脱颖而出。所以，对小孩的支出就像是个无底洞。
xiànzài hé yǐqián bù yīyàng de 。xiànzài shēnghuó shuǐpíng gāo ，wùzhì fēngfù 。érqiě dōu xīwàng xiàyīdài néng bǐ zìjǐ hǎo ，néng zài tāmen tónglíngrén zhōng tuōyǐng\'érchū 。suǒyǐ ，duì xiǎohái de zhīchū jiù xiàng shì gè wúdǐdòng 。
Times are different now. The standard of living is higher, and people have more stuff. We have to make sure the next generation is better off than we are and also that our kids can really stand out among their peers. Because of all this, paying a kid's expenses is like pouring money into a bottomless pit.
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