小时 (小時)
xiǎo shí
Pinyin
Definition
小时 (小時)
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- hour
- CL:個|个[gè]
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
上有老下有小
- 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
- 3 sandwich generation
不拘小节
- 1 to not bother about trifles (idiom)
以小人之心,度君子之腹
- 1 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)
以小挤大
- 1 minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)
升斗小民
- 1 poor people (idiom)
- 2 those who live from hand to mouth
Sample Sentences
嗯,二十四小时不停机吗?
Do they work around the clock?
秦宇终于松了一口气,原来是个乌龙,只是虚惊一场罢了。他趁机问了女孩儿的名字,聊了几句,原来女孩儿喜欢看话剧,同时也是个古董控,一个月前去了上海玩,在上海看了几场话剧,还去逛了一些跳蚤市场。秦宇原本想加她微信,但女孩儿说手机上周摔坏了,暂时没有手机可以用。于是他们直接约了隔天表演开场前的半小时在剧院门口碰面。
QinYu took a load off his mind. As it turned out that it's a mistake, merely a false alarm. He seized the opportunity and asked the girl's name, chatted for a while. In fact, the girl likes to watch stage drama, and she's a big fan of antique as well. Last month, she went to visit Shanghai, watched some play there, and visited some flea market. QinYu was thinking to add her on Wechat, but the girl said that she broke her phone last week, so she doesn't have a phone. Therefore, they decided to meet in front of the theatre half an hour before the play starts the next day.
原来,这家养老院推出了“陪伴是最长情的告白”志愿服务项目,年轻人可租住养老院的部分房间,月租仅三百元,但每人每月要为老人提供二十小时的志愿服务。
It turned out that this nursing home launched the "Companionship is the most long-lasting" volunteer service project. Young people can rent rooms in the nursing home for a monthly rent of only 300 yuan, but each person must provide 20 hours of volunteer service for the elderly every month.
不过,在店里一侧,约15的临街空间被打造成了小时24面包坊店员晚上,下班后主店,的大门会关闭但市民,仍可以用支付宝扫码进入小时自助24坊。
However at the side of the store, approximately 15 square meters of space is set aside for the 24 hour self service bakery shop. After the shop assistants leave at night, the shop owner closes the main door but customers can use Alipay to enter the 24 hour self service bakery.
你这么说,我倒想起小时候爸妈工作忙,晚上都是我小姑姑接我放学,做晚饭给我吃。虽然她最近老是嫌我老公不长进……
Now that you say that, I remember when I was young and my parents were busy with work, my auntie would pick me up in the evening after school and make dinner for me. Although now she's always saying how she dislikes that my husband isn't progressing so well...
那,人也不可能二十四小时地捧着手机呀,不能秒回也是情有可原的吧。
People don't always have their mobile phones to hand twenty-four seven, if they can't reply within seconds then you can forgive them for it, no?
没错,理想化的说法是,如果真爱你就是二十四小时都有空,东南西北中都顺路。如果不秒回,至少得在一天之中给个回复吧,一通消息出去十天半个月才回复,那就别自欺欺人了,飞鸽传书都比这速度快。
That's right, in an ideal world, if he really loves you he'd have time for you twenty-four seven, and everything would always go your way. If he doesn't reply within seconds, he should at least reply that day. If you send a message and he doesn't reply for 10 days or a fortnight, then you shouldn't keep fooling yourself, you'd be quicker with a carrier pigeon.
谢谢!我的航班延误了半小时,让您久等了。真不好意思。
Thank you. My flight has been delayed for half an hour and I have kept you waiting. I’m really sorry.
我昨天睡了八个小时的觉。
I had eight hours of sleep yesterday.
我昨天喝了一壶茶,所以昨晚只睡了四个小时。
I drank a pot of tea yesterday so I only slept for four hours last night.