堆
duī
Pinyin

Definition

堆
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duī
  1. to pile up
  2. to heap up
  3. a mass
  4. pile
  5. heap
  6. stack
  7. large amount

Character Decomposition

Related Words (19)

堆
duī
  1. 1 to pile up
  2. 2 to heap up
  3. 3 a mass
  4. 4 pile
  5. 5 heap
  6. 6 stack
  7. 7 large amount
垃圾堆
lā jī duī
  1. 1 garbage heap
堆满
duī mǎn
  1. 1 to pile up
堆积
duī jī
  1. 1 to pile up
  2. 2 to heap
  3. 3 accumulation
扎堆
zhā duī
  1. 1 to gather together

Idioms (3)

堆案盈几
duī àn yíng jī
  1. 1 lit. piles of work and papers (idiom); fig. accumulated backlog of work
堆积如山
duī jī rú shān
  1. 1 to pile up like a mountain (idiom)
  2. 2 a mountain of (paperwork etc)
  3. 3 a large number of sth
钻故纸堆
zuān gù zhǐ duī
  1. 1 to dig into piles of outdated writings (idiom); to study old books and papers

Sample Sentences

李叔啊，今天摊位上的东西怎么都堆成山了？
Lǐ shū a ，jīntiān tānwèi shàng de dōngxi zěnme dōu duī chéng shān le ？
Uncle Li, why is your stall today piled up like a mountain?
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公司新来的那个实习生，我在问他正经事儿，他给我丢来一堆猥琐的熊猫，我研究了半天也没有看懂他在说什么。
gōngsī xīnlái de nàge shíxísheng ，wǒ zài wèn tā zhèngjīng shì r ，tā gěi wǒ diū lái yīduī wěisuǒ de xióngmāo ，wǒ yánjiū le bàntiān yě méiyǒu kàn dǒng tā zài shuō shénme 。
I was asking about work with the new intern in my company when he sent me a bunch of panda emojis that looked sorry or something. After analyzing for half a day, I still didn’t understand his message.
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过去几个共享经济成功的例子，像优步、Airbnb最后还不是衍生一堆问题。没有公德心，怎么共享？我看根本是共业！
guòqù jǐ ge gòngxiǎng jīngjì chénggōng de lìzi ，xiàng yōubù 、Airbnb zuìhòu háibùshì yǎnshēng yīduī wèntí 。méiyǒu gōngdéxīn ，zěnme gòngxiǎng ？wǒ kàn gēnběn shì gòngyè ！
Past successful examples of sharing economy initiatives, like Uber and AirBnB, also led to a load of problems in the end too. If you don't have a common sense of decency, then how can you share? In my eyes it's basically collective karma!
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大江东去，浪淘尽，千古风流人物。故垒西边，人道是，三国周郎赤壁。乱石崩云，惊涛裂岸，卷起千堆雪。江山如画，一时多少豪杰。
dà jiāng dōng qù ，làng táo jìn ，qiān gǔ fēngliú rénwù 。gùlěi xībiān ，rén dào shì ，Sānguó Zhōu láng Chìbì 。luàn shí bēng yún ，jīng tāo liè àn ，juǎn qǐ qiān duī xuě 。jiāng shān rú huà ，yīshí duōshao háojié 。
The vast Yangtze gushes endlessly eastwards, who knows how many heroes have been dashed away by its flow. Westwards of the old camp, people say are the red cliffs were Zhou Yu defeated Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms Period. There, the ragged cliffs tower into the clouds, the terrifying waves seem to want to tear at the river banks, stirring up snow-white surf in the tens of thousands. The beautiful rivers and mountains are like a painting; but how many heroic figures have been born amid them?
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老师，您的专业是词汇学，您也一直强调词汇的重要性，可是我很困惑，根据我自己的学习经验，明明积累了一大堆的单词，语言能力也并没有因此显著提高，很多期刊文章仍然看不懂。
lǎoshī ，nín de zhuānyè shì cíhuìxué ，nín yě yīzhí qiángdiào cíhuì de zhòngyàoxìng ，kěshì wǒ hěn kùnhuò ，gēnjù wǒ zìjǐ de xuéxí jīngyàn ，míngmíng jīlěi le yīdàduī de dāncí ，yǔyán nénglì yě bìng méiyǒu yīncǐ xiǎnzhù tígāo ，hěn duō qīkān wénzhāng réngrán kànbudǒng 。
Sir, your specialism is lexicology, and you always underline the importance of lexicon, but I'm confused. According to my own learning experience, I've accumulated a large vocabulary, but my language ability has not improved noticeably as a result. There are still a lot of journal articles that I can't understand.
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你什么都可惜，家里堆了一大堆旧东西，咱们家又不是买不起，该换就要换。
nǐ shénme dōu kěxī ，jiālǐ duī le yīdàduī jiù dōngxi ，zánmen jiā yòu bù shì mǎibuqǐ ，gāi huàn jiùyào huàn 。
Everything's a pity for you. There's a big pile of old things at home. It's not as if we can't afford it, if we need to change something we should change it.
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也没有什么特别的事，就觉得心里特委屈。薪水低，瑣碎的事一堆，上下班通勤时间加起來得花去大半天。
yě méiyǒu shénme tèbié de shì ，jiù juéde xīnli tè wěiqū 。xīnshuǐ dī ，suǒsuì de shì yīduī ，shàngxiàbān tōngqín shíjiān jiā qǐlái děi huā qù dàbàntiān 。
It wasn't anything in particular. I just felt very hard-done by. My salary was low, I had a load of trivial matters to handle and adding the commute to and from work, I was spending over half the day at work.
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这十几年来资金氾滥、利率太低让一堆人炒房，政府对高房价却束手无策。
zhè shíjǐ nián lái zījīn fànlàn 、lìlǜ tài dī ràng yīduīrén chǎofáng ，zhèngfǔ duì gāo fángjià què shùshǒuwúcè 。
In the last decade or two there has been an inundation of capital, and low interest rates have led to a lot of people speculating in real estate. So the government is powerless against high house prices.
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怪不得我每天乘公车看到一大堆人眼睛盯着手机不放，原来他们在追剧啊。
guàibude wǒ měitiān chéng gōngchē kàndào yīdàduī rén yǎnjing dīng zhe shǒujī bù fàng ，yuánlái tāmen zài zhuī jù ā 。
No wonder every day when I ride the bus I see a bunch of people with their eyes fixed on their phones the whole time, so it turns out they're keeping up with dramas.
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不行啊！床底下堆满了我新买的鞋子，你爬不进去。
bùxíng ā ！chuáng dǐxia duīmǎn le wǒ xīn mǎi de xiézi ，nǐ pá bù jìnqù 。
No! The new shoes I bought are piled under the bed, you won't be able to crawl in.
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