寝室 (寢室)
qǐn shì
Pinyin

Definition

寝室 (寢室)
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qǐn shì
  1. bedroom
  2. dormitory
  3. CL:間|间[jiān]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

教室
jiào shì
  1. 1 classroom
  2. 2 classifier: 间 jiān
办公室
bàn gōng shì
  1. 1 office
  2. 2 business premises
  3. 3 bureau
  4. 4 classifier: 间 jiān
休息室
xiū xī shì
  1. 1 lobby
  2. 2 lounge
候车室
hòu chē shì
  1. 1 waiting room (for train, bus etc)
地下室
dì xià shì
  1. 1 basement
  2. 2 cellar

Idioms (10)

不安其室
bù ān qí shì
  1. 1 to be discontented with one's home
  2. 2 to have adulterous relations after marriage (of women) (idiom)
升堂入室
shēng táng rù shì
  1. 1 lit. to reach the main room and enter the chamber (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to gradually attain proficiency
  3. 3 to attain a higher level
同室操戈
tóng shì cāo gē
  1. 1 wielding the halberd within the household (idiom); internecine strife
引狼入室
yǐn láng rù shì
  1. 1 to show the wolf into the house (idiom)
  2. 2 to introduce a potential source of trouble
成家立室
chéng jiā lì shì
  1. 1 to get married (idiom)

Sample Sentences

哎呀，你就拉到吧。什么不是上课就是泡图书馆，咱俩一个寝室的，我还会不晓得你，翘课王！图书馆的偶遇？那是更没影儿的事儿了吧？
āiyā ，nǐ jiù lādào ba 。shénme bùshì shàngkè jiùshì pào túshūguǎn ，zánliǎ yī gè qǐnshì de ，wǒ hái huì bù xiǎode nǐ ，qiàokèwáng ！túshūguǎn de ǒuyù ？nà shì gèng méiyǐngr de shìr le ba ？
Agh, stop bullshitting. What do you mean when you weren't in class you were stewing in the library. We shared a dorm, it's not like I don't know you, the king of skipping class! We've never bumped into each other in the library, have we? Not even once, no?
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我们寝室除了两个考研的，剩下我们几个就得面临找工作啦。
wǒmen qǐnshì chúle liǎng gè kǎoyán de ，shèngxià wǒmen jǐ ge jiù de miànlín zhǎo gōngzuò la 。
In our dormitory, besides the two who are taking the entrance exam for graduate school, there is a few of us left who are faced with finding work.
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过段时间又要开学了，新生要搬进我们寝室了。时间真快啊……
guò duàn shíjiān yòu yào kāixué le ，xīnshēng yào bān jìn wǒmen qǐnshì le 。shíjiān zhēn kuài à ……
It's that time of the year when school starts again. There will be freshmen moving in to our dorms. How time flies....
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上学期，我们男生寝室和你们女生寝室有过一次联谊活动？碰巧你不在。
shàng semester ，wǒmen nánshēng qǐnshì hé nǐmen nǚshēng qǐnshì yǒuguò yīcì liányì huódòng ？pèngqiǎo nǐ bù zài 。
Last term, the boy's dormitory and the girl's dormitory had a get-together. It happened that you were not there.
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我送你回寝室吧，快熄灯了。唉！你去哪儿？小心车子！
wǒ sòng nǐ huí qǐnshì ba ，kuài xīdēng le 。ài ！nǐ qù nǎr ？xiǎoxīn chēzi ！
I'll take you back to the dormitory, the lights are about to be turned off. Oh! Where did you go? Look out for the vehicles!
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暂时还没有。想在寝室看片子。
zànshí hái méiyǒu 。xiǎng zài qǐnshì kàn piānzi 。
At the moment, I don't have any. I want to watch a movie in the dormitory.
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周丽？我们寝室那个大四？我进校后还没见过她呢。
zhōulì ？wǒmen qǐnshì nàge dàsì ？wǒ jìn xiào hòu hái méi jiàn guo tā ne 。
Zhou Li? The fourth-year in our dormitory room? I haven't seen her since I came to the school.
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那挺好的。哎，马上就要毕业了，真舍不得离开我们这个寝室。
nà tǐng hǎo de 。ài ，mǎshàng jiùyào bìyè le ，zhēn shěbude líkāi wǒmen zhè gè qǐnshì 。
That's great. Hey, I'm going to graduate soon. I really don't want to leave our dormitory.
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以前在寝室你不也看嘛，还说我。哎，我这儿有本杂志你肯定没看过，特过瘾。
yǐqián zài qǐnshì nǐ bù yě kàn ma ，hái shuō wǒ 。āi ，wǒ zhèr yǒu běn zázhì nǐ kěndìng méi kàn guo ，tè guòyǐn 。
Me, whatever. Back when we were in the dorm, you watched too. Hey, I've got a magazine here you definitely haven't seen. It's right up your alley.
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我悻悻地回到寝室，心里想，要在那么多人里找寻一个背影，真的像大海捞针一样。或许，桃花运真的还没来......
wǒ xìngxìng de huí dào qǐnshì ，xīnli xiǎng ，yào zài nàme duō rén lǐ zhǎoxún yī ge bèiyǐng ，zhēnde xiàng dàhǎi lāo zhēn yīyàng 。huòxǔ ，táohuā yùn zhēnde hái méi lái ......
Resentfully, I went back to my dormitory. I thought to myself that searching for this vision of a girl in such a sea of people really was like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Perhaps my lucky chance hadn't come after all...
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