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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mó tiān dà lóu
  1. skyscraper
  2. CL:座[zuò]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

jīn tiān
  1. 1 today
  2. 2 at the present
  3. 3 now
  1. 1 big
  2. 2 huge
  3. 3 large
  4. 4 major
  5. 5 great
  6. 6 wide
  7. 7 deep
  8. 8 older (than)
  9. 9 oldest
  10. 10 eldest
  11. 11 greatly
  12. 12 very much
  13. 13 (dialect) father
  14. 14 father's elder or younger brother
dà jiā
  1. 1 everyone
  2. 2 influential family
  3. 3 great expert
dà huà tóu
  1. 1 liar's dice (dice game)
tiān
  1. 1 day
  2. 2 sky
  3. 3 heaven

Idioms (20)

一人得道,鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南,一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一柱擎天
yī zhù qíng tiān
  1. 1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
一步登天
yī bù dēng tiān
  1. 1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
三天不打,上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 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。
Jīnmàodàshà hái shì suànle ba 。suīshuō Jīnmàodàshà hàochēng shìjiè dì sān gāolóu ,kěshì bìjìng guówài gāolóu línlì ,dàochù shì mótiāndàlóu ,bù xīqí 。Dōngfāngmíngzhū diànshìtǎ dàoshì kěyǐ dài tā qù kànkan 。zhè shíyī ge dàxiǎo bùyī 、gāodī cuòluò de qiútǐ ,cóng tiānkōng chuànluò dào cǎodì shang ,háishì hěnyǒu tèsè de 。
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。
zài Shànghǎi ,wúlùn nǐ shì zhàn zài mótiāndàlóu xià ,hái shì zǒu zài lǐlòng zhōng ,dōu bùhuì yǒu “cū ”de gǎnjué 。
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。
Yuènán zhè jǐ nián fāzhǎn de hěn kuài ,gài le hǎo duō mótiāndàlóu 。
These past few years Vietnam has developed quickly. They've built a lot of skyscrapers.
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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。
méicuò 。qíshí wǒmen dōu wùjiě le ,yǐwéi guówài dōu shì fādá de dàdūshì ,dàochù shì mótiāndàlóu 、gāosùgōnglù 、fánhuá shāngchǎng hé línyīn cǎopíng ,qíshí xiànzài zhèxiē jǐngwù zài Běijīng 、Shànghǎi děng dàchéngshì yě suíchǔ kějiàn ,zài Ōuzhōu gèng xīyǐn wǒ de fǎndàoshì shānjiān nàxiē hóngwěi 、huīhuáng de gǔbǎo 。