整天
zhěng tiān
Pinyin
Definition
整天
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- all day long
- whole day
Character Decomposition
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
他整天花天酒地,和朋友谈天说地,所以我们没办法天长地久。
He spends all day indulging in all kinds of pleasure and chatting with friends. Therefore, our relationship can't last forever.
那我的经验是,醒来还在床上翻来覆去,容易一整天都头晕脑胀的,早起后拖着不干正事,我会因为浪费时间而深感沮丧。
My experience is that if you toss and turn in your bed after you wake up, you end up feeling hazy all day long. If I don't get up to some proper stuff in the morning, I actually feel upset that I've wasted my time.
没…没有啊!只是我老公平常也不爱看古装剧,这几天却开始整天朕来朕去地称呼自己,欸!他不会也带哪个野女人上那家宾馆了吧!
No...not at all! It's just that my husband ins't usually in period dramas, but recently all he's been doing his referring to himself as the emperor. Huh, don't tell me he's brought some hussy to that hotel too!
谁说不是呢?整天做牛做马的,福利不好就不说了,可是一旦出了问题还都得我来背黑锅。
You're not wrong there. Every day I worked like a dog. It's not even just that there were no benefits, but when something went wrong, I'd be the one who had to take the blame for it.
这几天出门没看“黄历”,诸事不顺。再加上,付出总是得不到回报,心里很憋屈,不知道整天忙忙碌碌的都是为了什么。
Over the last few days I haven't looked at the Chinese divination almanac before leaving the house, and nothing has gone my way. I also feel like I'm not get anything back for what I do for others, so I feel quite hard done by, and I don't know what I'm spending all this time busying myself for.
洗温泉比捉神奇宝贝有意义吗?对我来说,如果我不出去抓宝,可能就是整天赖在家里,也不见得是好事。
So going to the hot springs is a better use of time than catching Pokémon? I think that if it wasn't for Pokémon, I would just be lazing about the house all day, and that's not necessarily a good thing.
难怪你这么喜欢这首歌啊,不过这首歌确实循环播放一整天都不会厌倦。我也想学一学,下次学校聚餐活动,我就演唱这一首!
No wonder you like this song so much, but you really don't get sick of this song even after its been played on loop all day. I would like to learn it. The next time my school has a get-together to eat, I can perform this song!
整天就像丢了灵魂一般。
It is as if I had lost my soul the whole day.
我看不靠谱,你瞧那河马,整天在水里游啊游的,就没见它苗条过,我还是想想别的法子吧。
I don't think that's very reliable. Look at the hippo. It spends every day swimming about, and I've never seen it slender. I should really think of something else.
说的对,在实验室里窝了一个月,整天吃泡面,害得我现在满嘴泡面味。
You're right. We've been holed up in the lab for a month, eating instant noodles all day. It's made my entire mouth taste like instant noodles now.