夜盲症
yè máng zhèng
Pinyin

Definition

夜盲症
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yè máng zhèng
  1. night blindness
  2. nyctalopia

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

夜
yè
  1. 1 variant: 夜 yè
半夜
bàn yè
  1. 1 midnight
  2. 2 in the middle of the night
夜店
yè diàn
  1. 1 nightclub
夜晚
yè wǎn
  1. 1 night
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
夜间
yè jiān
  1. 1 nighttime
  2. 2 evening or night (e.g. classes)

Idioms (20)

俾夜作昼
bǐ yè zuò zhòu
  1. 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
  2. 2 work especially hard
俾昼作夜
bǐ zhòu zuò yè
  1. 1 to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
问道于盲
wèn dào yú máng
  1. 1 lit. to ask a blind man the way (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to seek advice from an incompetent
夙夜匪懈
sù yè fěi xiè
  1. 1 to work from morning to night (idiom)
夙兴夜寐
sù xīng yè mèi
  1. 1 to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard
  2. 2 to study diligently
  3. 3 to burn the candle at both ends

Sample Sentences

科学都证明了吃内脏是有益健康的，比如猪肝里含有丰富的维生素A，可以预防夜盲症。
kēxué dōu zhèngmíng le chī nèizàng shì yǒuyì jiànkāng de ，bǐrú zhūgān lǐ hányǒu fēngfù de wéishēngsù A ，kěyǐ yùfáng yèmángzhèng 。
Science has proven that eating organs is good for your health. For example, pig's liver is rich in vitamin A, which is able to prevent night blindness.
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