尘暴 (塵暴)
chén bào
Pinyin

Definition

尘暴 (塵暴)
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chén bào
  1. dust devil

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

暴
Bào
  1. 1 surname Bao
暴力
bào lì
  1. 1 violence
  2. 2 force
  3. 3 violent
暴露
bào lù
  1. 1 to expose
  2. 2 to reveal
  3. 3 to lay bare
  4. 4 also pr. [pù lù]
风暴
fēng bào
  1. 1 storm
  2. 2 violent commotion
  3. 3 fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc)
凶暴
xiōng bào
  1. 1 brutal

Idioms (9)

一暴十寒
yī pù shí hán
  1. 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
  2. 2 sporadic effort
  3. 3 short attention span
不畏强暴
bù wèi qiáng bào
  1. 1 not to submit to force (idiom); to defy threats and violence
暴虎冯河
bào hǔ píng hé
  1. 1 lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to display foolhardy courage
横征暴敛
héng zhēng bào liǎn
  1. 1 to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force
横正暴敛
héng zhèng bào liǎn
  1. 1 to levy exorbitant taxes (idiom)

Sample Sentences

沙尘暴，听上去就很恐怖。
shāchénbào ，tīngshàngqù jiù hěn kǒngbù 。
Sandstorms? Just the sound of it is horrible.
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最近雨水少，气候干燥。而且，我们这边靠近蒙古南部的戈壁地区，所以到了春末夏初，经常会有沙尘天气，有时还会有沙尘暴呢。
zuìjìn yǔ shuǐ shǎo ，qìhòu gānzào 。érqiě ，wǒmen zhèbiān kàojìn Ménggǔ nánbù de gēbì dìqū ，suǒyǐ dào le chūn mò xià chū ，jīngcháng huì yǒu shāchén tiānqì ，yǒushí hái huì yǒu shāchénbào ne 。
These days there isn't much rainfall and the climate is dry. Also, up here, we're right against the area of the Gobi Desert in the southern part of Mongolia, so at the end of spring and beginning of summer, there's often sand dust in the air. Sometimes there are even sandstorms.
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You're still way too relaxed about this. Can you be saying that you want to breathe filthy air all day, blowing dust devils, and drinking dirty water from the Yangtze River? You should know that 70% of the lakes in China are already polluted, and the trend for ecological protection in those lakes is extremely serious...
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