小轿车 (小轎車)
xiǎo jiào chē
Pinyin
Definition
小轿车 (小轎車)
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- (automobile) sedan
- car
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
出事的时候我就站在路口,看得一清二楚。当时一辆小轿车右转弯,没有按喇叭,“呜”的一下就转了。谁晓得一辆助动车也开过来,速度也很快。他们就撞上了。我第一次看见撞车,心里怕得很。我想这下坏了,可能撞死人了。我赶快跑过去,看到那个骑车的小姑娘摔在地上,还好人没事。开车子的男人后来也下来了。他们两个都开得快,硬碰硬就撞了。
When the accident happened I was standing at the intersection, and I saw everything clear as day. A small car was turning right, didn't blow its horn, and ``whoosh" just made a turn. Who knew an electric bike would also drive up, and at a really high speed. They just hit each other. It was the first time I ever saw a car accident. I was scared out of my wits. I thought it must be bad, maybe someone died in the crash. I hurried right over and saw the girl on the bike had been knocked to the ground. Good thing she was OK. Then the man driving the car got out. They were both driving very fast, metal hit metal, and it was a crash.