天仙
tiān xiān
Pinyin
Definition
天仙
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- immortal (esp. female)
- deity
- fairy
- Goddess
- fig. beautiful woman
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南,一个地北
- 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一柱擎天
- 1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)
- 2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
一步登天
- 1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
三天不打,上房揭瓦
- 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
- 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
Sample Sentences
兄弟您就给行行好我要是给规规矩矩地都做好了,哪有机会让空姐注意到我啊,我这不是得创造机会搭讪天仙儿嘛。
Brother, just do something nice for me. If I did everything properly by the rules, how would I have caught the attention of an air hostess? Isn’t this an opportunity to chat up a beautiful woman, no?
你们还不是一天到晚幻想女生都要像林志玲,没有啦,只有我这种说不上美如天仙,但至少不太抱歉的可爱女孩!
Aren't you guys always fantasizing that all girls are like Lin Zhiling from morning to night. They aren't, there are only girls like me that aren't angelic beauties, but at least are cute and aren't really unfortunate looking!