大老远 (大老遠)
dà lǎo yuǎn
Pinyin

Definition

大老远 (大老遠)
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dà lǎo yuǎn
  1. very far away

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

大
dà
  1. 1 big
  2. 2 huge
  3. 3 large
  4. 4 major
  5. 5 great
  6. 6 wide
  7. 7 deep
  8. 8 older (than)
  9. 9 oldest
  10. 10 eldest
  11. 11 greatly
  12. 12 very much
  13. 13 (dialect) father
  14. 14 father's elder or younger brother
大吉
dà jí
  1. 1 very auspicious
  2. 2 extremely lucky
大家
dà jiā
  1. 1 everyone
  2. 2 influential family
  3. 3 great expert
大奖
dà jiǎng
  1. 1 prize
  2. 2 award
大话骰
dà huà tóu
  1. 1 liar's dice (dice game)

Idioms (20)

一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥
yī lì lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō zhōu
  1. 1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤
yī kē lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō tāng
  1. 1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
上有老下有小
shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo
  1. 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
  3. 3 sandwich generation
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
不识大体
bù shí dà tǐ
  1. 1 to fail to see the larger issue (idiom)
  2. 2 to fail to grasp the big picture

Sample Sentences

我大老远的跑一趟你就请我吃泡面？
wǒ dàlǎoyuǎn de pǎo yī tàng nǐ jiù qǐng wǒ chī pàomiàn ？
I ran over all this way and you are inviting me to eat instant noodles?
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别人都送，咱不送的话，医生肯定态度不一样。我们大老远地跑来这里看病也不容易，不要因为这几千块做不好手术。
biérén dōu sòng ，zán bú sòng dehuà ，yīshēng kěndìng tàidu bù yīyàng 。wǒmen dàlǎoyuǎn de pǎolái zhèlǐ kànbìng yě bù róngyì ，bù yào yīnwèi zhè jǐqiān kuài zuòbuhǎo shǒushù 。
Other people give one. If we don't, the doctor will definitely feel differently about us. It wasn't easy coming from so far away to have the surgery. Let's not let it go poorly over just a few thousand kuai.
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宜家的乐趣就是自己装。要不干吗大老远地跑到宜家来买？
Yíjiā de lèqù jiùshì zìjǐ zhuāng 。yàobu gànmá dàlǎoyuǎn de pǎodào Yíjiā lái mǎi ？
The fun of IKEA is building things yourself. Otherwise, why on earth would anyone go so far away to buy something from IKEA?
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我大老远就听见了，都吵翻天了。你们不睡，别人还要睡呢。
wǒ dàlǎoyuǎn jiù tīngjiàn le ，dōu chǎo fāntiān le 。nǐmen bù shuì ，biérén hái yào shuì ne 。
I could hear it from far away, you are making a ruckus. You are up, but others are trying to sleep.
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