威尼斯
Wēi ní sī
Pinyin

Definition

威尼斯
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Wēi ní sī
  1. Venice
  2. Venezia

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

俄罗斯
É luó sī
  1. 1 Russia
助威
zhù wēi
  1. 1 to cheer for
  2. 2 to encourage
  3. 3 to boost the morale of
乔布斯
Qiáo bù sī
  1. 1 Jobs (name)
  3. 3 Steve Jobs
奥斯卡
Ào sī kǎ
  1. 1 (film industry) Oscar (Academy Award)
  2. 2 classifier: 届 jiè
  3. 3 (name) Oscar
威尼斯
Wēi ní sī
  1. 1 Venice
  2. 2 Venezia

Idioms (6)

作威作福
zuò wēi zuò fú
  1. 1 tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
威福自己
wēi fú zì jǐ
  1. 1 to exercise power arbitrarily (idiom)
威震天下
wēi zhèn tiān xià
  1. 1 to inspire awe throughout the empire (idiom)
恩威兼施
ēn wēi jiān shī
  1. 1 to employ both kindness and severity (idiom)
狐假虎威
hú jiǎ hǔ wēi
  1. 1 lit. the fox exploits the tiger's might (idiom); fig. to use powerful connections to intimidate people

Sample Sentences

威尼斯位于潟湖之中，狂风经常将水灌进这座城市，导致洪水。
Wēinísī wèiyú xìhú zhīzhōng ，kuángfēng jīngcháng jiāng shuǐ guànjìn zhè zuò chéngshì ，dǎozhì hóngshuǐ 。
Venice is located in a lagoon which often leads to flooding when heavy winds blow (pour) water into the city.
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威尼斯街头不少游客和居民穿长筒靴涉水出行。
Wēinísī jiētóu bùshǎo yóukè hé jūmín chuān chángtǒngxuē shèshuǐ chūxíng 。
Many tourists and residents in the city wore long boots and waded through the water.
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意大利水城威尼斯受狂风暴雨影响，水位二十九日涨至近十年来最高位，城市四分之三沦为泽国。
Yìdàlì Shuǐchéng Wēinísī shòu kuángfēngbàoyǔ yǐngxiǎng ，shuǐwèi èrshíjiǔrì zhǎng zhì jìn shí nián lái zuì gāo wèi ，chéngshì sìfēnzhīsan lúnwéi zéguó 。
On the 29th, heavy winds and downpours caused the water level around Venice to rise to its highest level in almost a decade. More than three quarters of the city was inundated.
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意大利威尼斯遭暴雨城市七成以上被淹
Yìdàlì Wēinísī zāo bàoyǔ chéngshì qīchéng yǐshàng bèi yān
After heavy rains, more than 70% of Venice, Italy was flooded.
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威尼斯商户通常在店门口用金属条或木条挡水，但这次动用水泵排水。
Wēinísī shānghù tōngcháng zài diàn ménkǒu yòng jīnshǔ tiáo huò mù tiáo dǎng shuǐ ，dàn zhè cì dòngyòng shuǐbèng páishuǐ 。
Normally Venetian merchants would use metal or wooden planks to stop water from entering their store entrance but this time they use water pumps to drain water.
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按照他的说法，威尼斯平均一年有四次水位超过一百零九厘米。
ànzhào tā de shuōfǎ ，Wēinísī píngjūn yī nián yǒu sì cì shuǐwèi chāoguò yìbǎilíngjiǔ límǐ 。
According to him, the water level in Venice exceeds 109cm an average of 4 times a year.
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威尼斯所属威尼托区区长卢卡·扎亚说，洪灾本周可能达到威尼斯和佛罗伦萨一九六六年所遭遇洪灾的水平。
Wēinísī suǒshǔ wēinítuō qū qūzhǎng Lúkǎ ·zhāyà shuō ，hóngzāi běnzhōu kěnéng dádào Wēinísī hé fóluólúnsà yījiǔliùliù suǒ zāoyù hóngzāi de shuǐpíng 。
According to the mayor, the floods this week may reach the level of flooding experienced by Venice and Florence in 1966.
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今天我们“舌尖上的美酒”栏目，要带各位走进中国黄酒古城——绍兴。古城绍兴又被誉为“东方威尼斯”，徜徉在青石板弄堂中就能感受到三步一桥五步一河的奇景，绍兴水资源丰沛，也为其黄酒酿造业奠定了良好的基础。
jīntiān wǒmen “shéjiān shàng de měijiǔ ”lánmù ，yào dài gè wèi zǒujìn Zhōngguó huángjiǔ gǔchéng ——Shàoxīng 。gǔchéng Shàoxīng yòu bèi yùwéi “dōngfāng Wēinísī ”，chángyáng zài qīngshíbǎn lòngtáng zhōng jiù néng gǎnshòu dào sān bù yī qiáo wǔ bù yī hé de qíjǐng ，Shàoxīng shuǐ zīyuán fēngpèi ，yě wèi qí huángjiǔ niàngzào yè diàndìng le liánghǎo de jīchǔ 。
In today's "Tasting Fine Liquors" segment, we're taking you into the ancient Chinese city famous for huangjiu - Shaoxing. The ancient city of Shaoxing is also well known as "The Venice of the East". Wandering around the alleyways paved with green slate, you'll marvel at how there seems to be a bridge or a river at every turn. Shaoxing has a lot of water resources, which serve as the solid foundation for its huangjiu brewing industry.
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