摩天大楼 (摩天大樓)
mó tiān dà lóu
Pinyin
Definition
摩天大楼 (摩天大樓)
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- skyscraper
- CL:座[zuò]
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 today
- 2 at the present
- 3 now
- 1 big
- 2 huge
- 3 large
- 4 major
- 5 great
- 6 wide
- 7 deep
- 8 older (than)
- 9 oldest
- 10 eldest
- 11 greatly
- 12 very much
- 13 (dialect) father
- 14 father's elder or younger brother
- 1 everyone
- 2 influential family
- 3 great expert
- 1 liar's dice (dice game)
- 1 day
- 2 sky
- 3 heaven
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南,一个地北
- 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一柱擎天
- 1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)
- 2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
一步登天
- 1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
三天不打,上房揭瓦
- 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
- 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
Sample Sentences
金茂大厦还是算了吧。虽说金茂大厦号称世界第三高楼,可是毕竟国外高楼林立,到处是摩天大楼,不稀奇。东方明珠电视塔倒是可以带他去看看。这11个大小不一、高低错落的球体,从天空串落到草地上,还是很有特色的。
Forget about the Jinmao Tower. Although the Jinmao Tower claims to be the third highest building in the world, there are a ton of skyscrapers in other countries, after all. Everywhere you go are skyscrapers. They're not rare at all. On the other hand, I could take him to see the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. It has eleven balls of different sizes. Their heights are staggered in a row leading from the heavens down to the Earth. It's really distinctive.
在上海,无论你是站在摩天大楼下,还是走在里弄中,都不会有“粗”的感觉。
In Shanghai, no matter whether you're standing under a skyscraper or walking through a narrow lane, you'll never feel that the place is ``crude."
越南这几年发展得很快,盖了好多摩天大楼。
These past few years Vietnam has developed quickly. They've built a lot of skyscrapers.
没错。其实我们都误解了,以为国外都是发达的大都市,到处是摩天大楼、高速公路、繁华商场和林荫草坪,其实现在这些景物在北京、上海等大城市也随处可见,在欧洲更吸引我的反倒是山间那些宏伟、辉煌的古堡。