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1 son
2 child
3 seed
4 egg
5 small thing
6 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat
7 Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]
8 ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)

孩子

hái zi

1 child

Idioms (20)

一瓶子不响，半瓶子晃荡

yī píng zi bù xiǎng , bàn píng zi huàng dang

1 lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom)
2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise

不入虎穴，焉得虎子

bù rù hǔ xué , yān dé hǔ zǐ

1 How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

不见兔子不撒鹰

bù jiàn tù zi bù sā yīng

1 you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom)
2 one doesn't act without some incentive

乱臣贼子

luàn chén zéi zǐ

1 rebels and traitors (idiom)
2 general term for scoundrel

仁人君子

rén rén jūn zǐ

1 people of good will (idiom); charitable person

Sample Sentences

孺子可教也！是的，“词”本身，在我们的大脑里，只是信息模块的载体，每个词背后所提供的信息量是相当大的，而“词汇是语言的一切”这一说法，就是咱们语言学的泰山北斗乔姆斯基在八十年代提出的。

rúzǐkějiāo yě ！shì de ，“cí ”běnshēn ，zài wǒmen de dànǎo lǐ ，zhǐshì xìnxī mókuài de zàitǐ ，měige cí bèihòu suǒ tígōng de xìnxīliàng shì xiāngdāng dà de ，ér “cíhuì shì yǔyán de yīqiè ”zhè yī shuōfa ，jiùshì zánmen yǔyánxué de tàishānběidǒu Qiáomǔsījī zài bāshí niándài tíchū de 。

You're a quick learner! Yes, words themselves, in our brains, are simply carriers of modules of data. The amount of data behind each word is quite substantial, and the saying "vocabulary is everything in language", was proposed by the giant of the linguistics field, Noam Chomsky, back in the 1980s.

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挺会总结啊，孺子可教也。对了，圣诞节快到了，这可是个大好时机啊，祝你手到擒来，马到成功！

tǐng huì zǒngjié ā ，rúzǐ kě jiào yě 。duìle ，shèngdànjié kuài dào le ，zhè kě shì gè dàhǎo shíjī ā ，zhù nǐ shǒudáoqínlái ，mǎ dào chénggōng ！

You really know how to sum up a conversation. You make a good student. Oh yeah, it is almost Christmas. It's such a good opportunity, it should be as easy as pie, you're set up for success.

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