抽屉 (抽屜)
chōu ti
Pinyin
Definition
抽屉 (抽屜)
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- drawer
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to draw out
- 2 to pull out from in between
- 3 to remove part of the whole
- 4 (of certain plants) to sprout or bud
- 5 to whip or thrash
- 1 to extract
- 2 to remove
- 3 to draw (a sales commission, venom from a snake etc)
- 1 drawer
- 1 to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco)
- 1 to draw a prize
- 2 a lottery
- 3 a raffle
Idioms (3)
抽丝剥茧
- 1 lit. to spin silk from cocoons
- 2 fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom)
病来如山倒,病去如抽丝
- 1 sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly
短中抽长
- 1 to make the best of a bad job
- 2 to make the best use of limited resources (idiom)
Sample Sentences
抽屉里有新的。
There’s a new one in the drawer.
另外,还有一件事让小尤搞不明白,就是李探长有时会打开自己办公桌的抽屉,低着头像在思考着什么。但一有人靠近,他又马上把抽屉关上并锁住。李探长的抽屉里有什么秘密?
Also, there was something else Xiao You couldn't wrap her head around. Sometimes Detective Li would open his desk drawer and lower his head as though he were contemplating something. However, whenever someone would come close, he would immediately lock up his desk. What secrets were hiding in Detective Li's desk drawer?
办公桌的右手边有一个小抽屉,上面有一把锁。对!就是这个抽屉!
On the right-hand side of the desk was a small drawer with a lock on it. Yes! This was the drawer!
小尤惊了一下,但很快她便发现响声就是从那个神秘的抽屉中发出的。
Xiao You was startled for a moment, but soon realized that the sounds were coming from inside the mysterious drawer.
小尤赶紧拉开抽屉,看到了一张照片,一个文件袋和一个响个不停的旧手机。
Xiao You pulled open the drawer and saw a photograph, a folder of documents and an old cell phone, ringing and ringing.
抽屉里的那个文件袋你还没打开看过吗?”
"Have you not opened the folder of documents that was inside the drawer yet?"
在抽屉里。
In the drawer.
喏,衣橱抽屉的角落里找到两百,书房的笔筒里找到五百,微波炉下面找到三百。
Look. I found 200 in the corner of this drawer in the wardrobe, 500 in the pen holder, and 300 underneath the microwave.