影儿 (影兒)
yǐng r5
Pinyin
Definition
影儿 (影兒)
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- shadow
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 influence
- 2 effect
- 3 to influence
- 4 to affect (usually adversely)
- 5 to disturb
- 6 classifier: 股 gǔ
- 1 influence
- 2 impact
- 1 to take a photograph
- 2 photography
- 3 to shoot (a movie)
- 1 inverted image
- 2 reversed image (e.g. upside down)
Idioms (15)
来无影,去无踪
- 1 lit. come without a shadow, leave without a footprint (idiom); to come and go without a trace
化为泡影
- 1 to come to nothing (idiom)
含沙射影
- 1 to attack someone by innuendo (idiom)
- 2 to make oblique charges
- 3 to make insinuations
- 4 to insinuate
如影随形
- 1 as the shadow follows the body (idiom)
- 2 closely associated with each other
- 3 to follow relentlessly
孤身只影
- 1 lit. a lonely body with only a shadow for company
- 2 to be all alone (idiom)
Sample Sentences
我觉察他去得匆匆了,伸出手遮挽时,他又从遮挽着的手边过去,天黑时,我躺在床上,他便伶伶俐俐地从我身上跨过,从我脚边飞去了。等我睁开眼和太阳再见,这算又溜走了一日。我掩着面叹息。但是新来的日子的影儿又开始在叹息里闪过了。
Aware of its fleeting presence, I reach out for it only to find it brushing past my out-stretched hands. In the evening, when I lie on my bed, it nimbly strides over my body and flits past my feet. By the time when I open my eyes to meet the sun again, another day is already gone. I heave a sign, my head buried in my hands. But, in the midst of my sighs, a new day is flashing past.
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?
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?
欣雨,好久没见到你人影儿了,工作找得怎么样了?
Xinyu, I haven't seen you in forever. How's the job hunt?
昨天去干吗了呀?一整天不见你人影儿。