失传 (失傳)
shī chuán
Pinyin

Definition

失传 (失傳)
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shī chuán
  1. (of skills etc) to die out
  2. lost
  3. extinct

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

失去
shī qù
  1. 1 to lose
失败
shī bài
  1. 1 to be defeated
  2. 2 to lose
  3. 3 to fail (e.g. experiments)
  4. 4 failure
  5. 5 defeat
  6. 6 classifier: 次 cì
失望
shī wàng
  1. 1 disappointed
  2. 2 to lose hope
  3. 3 to despair
失眠
shī mián
  1. 1 to suffer from insomnia
消失
xiāo shī
  1. 1 to disappear
  2. 2 to fade away

Idioms (20)

一失足成千古恨
yī shī zú chéng qiān gǔ hèn
  1. 1 a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
人有失手，马有失蹄
rén yǒu shī shǒu , mǎ yǒu shī tí
  1. 1 lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. everyone makes mistakes
  3. 3 even the best fall down sometimes
北叟失马
běi sǒu shī mǎ
  1. 1 lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. a blessing in disguise
  3. 3 it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
千虑一失
qiān lǜ yī shī
  1. 1 reflect a thousand times and you can still make a mistake (idiom); to err is human
因小失大
yīn xiǎo shī dà
  1. 1 to save a little only to lose a lot (idiom)

Sample Sentences

话不能这么说啊，你看现在的年轻人,有几个对京剧、昆曲感兴趣啊，昆曲甚至都快失传了，传统文化也要与时俱进才有生命力嘛。现在的年轻人都喜欢听流行音乐，如果把传统文化的元素融入到流行歌曲中，应该很容易引起年轻人的兴趣和关注，这不是一件好事吗？
huà bùnéng zhème shuō ā ，UNKNOWN kàn xiàn zài de niánqīngrén ,yǒu jǐge duì jīngjù 、kūnqǔ gǎnxìngqù ā ，kūnqǔ shènzhì dōu kuài shīchuánle ，chuántǒng wénhuà yě yào yǔshíjūjìn cái yǒu shēngmìnglì ma 。xiàn zài de niánqīngrén dōu xǐhuan tīng liúxíng yīnyuè ，rúguǒ bǎ chuántǒng wénhuà de yuánsù róngrùdào liúxíng gēqǔ zhōng ，yīnggāi hěn róngyì yǐnqǐ niánqīngrén de xìngqù hé guānzhù ，zhè bù shì yījiànhǎo shì ma ？
They can't say that. Look at young people these days-- how many of them are interested in Peking or Kun opera? Kun opera has almost been lost forever. The only way traditional culture can stay alive is by keeping pace with the times. Modern kids like to listen to pop music. If you blend some traditional cultural elements into popular music, it should be easy to get young people to pay attention-- isn't that a good thing?
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是啊，所以为了不让中医从我们手里失传，不仅医学界要努力地研究和发展中医药，我们民间也应该发起“爱中医药、信中医药、用中医药、传中医药”这样的活动来帮助振兴我们的传统医学。
shì ā ，suǒyǐ wèile bù ràng zhōngyī cóng wǒmen shǒu lǐ shīchuán ，bùjǐn yīxuéjiè yào nǔlì de yánjiū hé fāzhǎn zhōngyīyào ，wǒmen mínjiān yě yīnggāi fāqǐ “ài zhōngyīyào 、xìn zhōngyīyào 、yòng zhōngyīyào 、chuán zhōngyīyào ”zhèyàng de huódòng lái bāngzhù zhènxīng wǒmen de chuántǒng yīxué 。
Yes. So in order to keep Chinese Medicine from disappearing, not only will the medical world have to work hard to research and develop Chinese Medicine. We common people should also launch ''Love Chinese Medicine, Believe in Chinese Medicine, Use Chinese Medicine, Pass on Chinese Medicine" activities to help stimulate our traditional medicine.
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没错，如果不能展开大范围的治疗工作，年轻的中医就没有太多的实践机会，无法积累经验，随着老中医一个个去世，中医也会逐渐失传。
méicuò ，rúguǒ bùnéng zhǎnkāi dà fànwéi de zhìliáo gōngzuò ，niánqīng de zhōngyī jiù méiyǒu tài duō de shíjiàn jīhuì ，wúfǎ jīlěi jīngyàn ，suízhe lǎo zhōngyī yī gege qùshì ，zhōngyī yě huì zhújiàn shīchuán 。
That's right. If you can't open up the range of treatment, young Chinese Medicine doctors don't have many chances to practice what they learn. They have no way of accumulating experience. As the old doctors die off one by one, Chinese medicine will gradually be lost forever.
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