日全食
rì quán shí
Pinyin

Definition

日全食
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rì quán shí
  1. total eclipse of the sun

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

今日
jīn rì
  1. 1 today
全
Quán
  1. 1 surname Quan
全部
quán bù
  1. 1 whole
  2. 2 entire
  3. 3 complete
安全
ān quán
  1. 1 safe
  2. 2 secure
  3. 3 safety
  4. 4 security
完全
wán quán
  1. 1 complete
  2. 2 whole
  3. 3 totally
  4. 4 entirely

Idioms (20)

一日三秋
yī rì sān qiū
  1. 1 a single day apart seems like three seasons (idiom)
一日不见，如隔三秋
yī rì bù jiàn , rú gé sān qiū
  1. 1 one day apart seems like three years (idiom)
一日之计在于晨
yī rì zhī jì zài yú chén
  1. 1 make your day's plan early in the morning (idiom)
  2. 2 early morning is the golden time of the day
一日之雅
yī rì zhī yǎ
  1. 1 lit. friends for a day (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. casual acquaintance
一日千里
yī rì qiān lǐ
  1. 1 lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress

Sample Sentences

是啊，为了让我们看到日全食，阿拉斯加航空公司延迟起飞了二十五分钟。
shì a ，wèile ràng wǒmen kàndào rìquánshí ，Ālāsījiā hángkōnggōngsī yánchí qǐfēi le èrshíwǔ fēnzhōng 。
Yes, in order for us to see the total solar eclipse, Alaska Airlines delayed take off by 25 minutes.
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天哪！这张飞机上的日全食照片是你拍的吗？
tiānnǎ ！zhè zhāng fēijī shàng de rìquánshí zhàopiàn shì nǐ pāi de ma ？
Gosh! Did you take this photograph of a total solar eclipse on a plane?
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你太幸运了，这次的完美日全食可是三百五十年才会发生一次啊。
nǐ tài xìngyùn le ，zhècì de wánměi rìquánshí kěshì sānbǎiwǔshí nián cái huì fāshēng yīcì ā 。
You're so lucky, this perfect solar eclipse occurs only once every 350 years.
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是啊，这次日全食主要在印度尼西亚，我们航班经过的地区刚好是观赏日全食最棒的位置！
shì a ，zhècì rìquánshí zhǔyào zài Yìndùníxīyà ，wǒmen hángbān jīngguò de dìqū gānghǎo shì guānshǎng rìquánshí zuìbàng de wèizhi ！
Yes, this total solar eclipse was mostly in Indonesia, the area our flight passed through was the best location for viewing the total solar eclipse.
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哈，我明年还想到美国再拍一次日全食呢，如果运气好的话还可以拍到流星雨，一举两得！
hā ，wǒ míngnián hái xiǎng dào Měiguó zài pāi yīcì rìquánshí ne ，rúguǒ yùnqi hǎo dehuà hái kěyǐ pāi dào liúxīngyǔ ，yījǔliǎngdé ！
Ha, next year I want to go to the United States to film another total solar eclipse, if I'm lucky I might even get a photo of a meteor shower, to catch two birds with one stone.
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其实到现在，我还不知道日全食是怎么来的呢。
qíshí dào xiànzài ，wǒ hái bù zhīdào rìquánshí shì zěnme lái de ne 。
Actually up to now, I still don't know how a solar eclipse happens.
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