摔跤
shuāi jiāo
Pinyin

Definition

摔跤
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shuāi jiāo
  1. to trip and fall
  2. to wrestle
  3. wrestling (sports)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (15)

摔
shuāi
  1. 1 to throw down
  2. 2 to fall
  3. 3 to drop and break
摔倒
shuāi dǎo
  1. 1 to fall down
  2. 2 to slip and fall
  3. 3 to throw sb to the ground
摔死
shuāi sǐ
  1. 1 to fall to one's death
摔跤
shuāi jiāo
  1. 1 to trip and fall
  2. 2 to wrestle
  3. 3 wrestling (sports)
跤
jiāo
  1. 1 a tumble
  2. 2 a fall

Idioms (1)

破罐破摔
pò guàn pò shuāi
  1. 1 lit. to smash a cracked pot (idiom); crazy despair in the face of a blemish, defect, error or setback

Sample Sentences

是啊，他比姚明刚去NBA的表现好多了。姚明刚去火箭的时候，不是摔跤就是犯规，一场球忙了半天，最后还是竹篮打水一场空。
shì ā ，tā bǐ Yáo Míng gāng qù NBAde biǎoxiàn hǎo duō le 。Yáo Míng gāng qù Huǒjiàn de shíhou ，bù shì shuāijiāo jiùshì fànguī ，yī chǎng qiú máng le bàntiān ，zuìhòu háishì zhúlán dǎshuǐ yīchǎngkōng 。
Yeah. He's doing a lot better than Yao Ming did when he first went to the NBA. When he first went to play for the Rockets, Yao Ming was always either stumbling or making fouls. He was always running around, but it was like carrying water in a bamboo basket-- totally pointless.
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你不知道，你外公现在说话语无伦次，脾气也很坏，动不动就骂人。而且动作也不协调，经常摔跤。作息时间也是日夜颠倒，他整夜不睡，我和你爸爸晚上也睡不好。我们白天又要上班，真是太累了。
nǐ bù zhīdào ，nǐ wàigōng xiànzài shuōhuà yǔwúlúncì ，píqì yě hěn huài ，dòng bu dòng jiù màrén 。érqiě dòngzuò yě bù xiétiáo ，jīngcháng shuāijiāo 。zuòxī shíjiān yě shì rìyè diāndào ，tā zhěng yè bù shuì ，wǒ hé nǐ bàba wǎnshang yě shuìbuhǎo 。wǒmen báitiān yòu yào shàngbān ，zhēn shì tài lèi le 。
You don’t understand, your grandfather’s speech is incoherent now, and he’s really irritable, he shouts at people over the slightest thing. His movements aren’t coordinated and he falls over all the time. His sleep patterns are all messed up as well, he sleeps all day and doesn’t sleep at all at night, so your dad and I can’t get enough sleep. We both have to work during the day, it’s exhausting.
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