有一次
yǒu yī cì
Pinyin

Definition

有一次
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yǒu yī cì
  1. once
  2. once upon a time

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

一
yī
  1. 1 one
  2. 2 1
  3. 3 single
  4. 4 a (article)
  5. 5 as soon as
  6. 6 entire
  7. 7 whole
  8. 8 all
  9. 9 throughout
  10. 10 "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  11. 11 also pr. [yāo] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
一下
yī xià
  1. 1 (used after a verb) give it a go
  2. 2 to do (sth for a bit to give it a try)
  3. 3 one time
  4. 4 once
  5. 5 in a while
  6. 6 all of a sudden
  7. 7 all at once
一起
yī qǐ
  1. 1 in the same place
  2. 2 together
  3. 3 with
  4. 4 altogether (in total)
有
yǒu
  1. 1 to have
  2. 2 there is
  3. 3 there are
  4. 4 to exist
  5. 5 to be
次
cì
  1. 1 next in sequence
  2. 2 second
  3. 3 the second (day, time etc)
  4. 4 secondary
  5. 5 vice-
  6. 6 sub-
  7. 7 infra-
  8. 8 inferior quality
  9. 9 substandard
  10. 10 order
  11. 11 sequence
  12. 12 hypo- (chemistry)
  13. 13 classifier for enumerated events: time

Idioms (20)

一不做，二不休
yī bù zuò , èr bù xiū
  1. 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
  2. 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
  3. 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
一丘之貉
yī qiū zhī hé
  1. 1 jackals of the same tribe (idiom); fig. They are all just as bad as each other.
一之为甚
yī zhī wéi shèn
  1. 1 once is more than enough (idiom)
一干二净
yī gān èr jìng
  1. 1 thoroughly (idiom)
  2. 2 completely
  3. 3 one and all
  4. 4 very clean
一五一十
yī wǔ yī shí
  1. 1 lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail

Sample Sentences

真的。有一次过马路我试探着想牵他的手，他立马缩回去了。你说，他不会是……对女人没兴趣吧？
zhēnde 。yǒuyīcì guò mǎlù wǒ shìtàn zhe xiǎng qiān tā de shǒu ，tā lìmǎ suō huíqù le 。nǐ shuō ，tā bù huì shì ……duì nǚrén méi xìngqù ba ？
Really. One time we were crossing the street and I was looking to hold his hand. He quickly pulled back. You think... he couldn't be... not interested in women?
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不是不是。我小时候喝酒一般是在过年的时候。过春节很多亲戚朋友在一起吃饭喝酒，大人们特别喜欢逗小孩子喝酒。有一次我都喝醉了。
bùshì bùshì 。wǒ xiǎo shíhou hējiǔ yībān shì zài guònián de shíhou 。guò chūnjié hěn duō qīnqi péngyou zàiyīqǐ chīfàn hējiǔ ，dàrenmen tèbié xǐhuan dòu xiǎo háizi hējiǔ 。yǒuyīcì wǒ dōu hēzuì le 。
No, no. When I was little, I often drank alcohol during New Year. While celebrating Spring Festival, family and friends eat and drink alcohol together. Adults especially like to tease the kids by getting them to drink alcohol. Once I was completely drunk.
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有一次几个城里人来店里吃饭。吃完以后，就让我带他们去河里钓鱼捉螃蟹，去看油菜花，说是这些东西城里没有，玩得可开心了。
yǒuyīcì jǐ ge chénglǐrén lái diàn lǐ chīfàn 。chīwán yǐhòu ，jiù ràng wǒ dài tāmen qù hé lǐ diàoyú zhuō pángxiè ，qù kàn yóucàihuā ，shuō shì zhèxiē dōngxi chénglǐ méiyǒu ，wán de kě kāixīn le 。
One time some people from the city came to the restaurant to eat. After eating, they asked me to take them to the river to go fishing and catch crabs, and to go look at the rapeseed flowers. They said they don't have these things in the city and they had a really great time.
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这就要看情况了。有一些小孩子其实是被大人控制了，才出来乞讨的。有一次，地铁里一个男人带着一个孩子乞讨，大家都以为孩子是被拐卖的，还报警了呢。结果，那个男人还真的是孩子的爸爸。不过有一些残疾人可能真的需要帮助。
zhè jiùyào kàn qíngkuàng le 。yǒuyīxiē xiǎo háizi qíshí shì bèi dàren kòngzhì le ，cái chūlai qǐtǎo de 。yǒuyīcì ，dìtiě lǐ yī gè nánrén dài zhe yī gè háizi qǐtǎo ，dàjiā dōu yǐwéi háizi shì bèi guǎimài de ，hái bàojǐng le ne 。jiéguǒ ，nàge nánrén hái zhēnde shì háizi de bàba 。bùguò yǒuyīxiē cánjírén kěnéng zhēnde xūyào bāngzhù 。
This depends on the stituation. Some kids are actually being controlled by adults, and made to go out and beg. One time, on the subway a man was carrying a child and begging. Everyone thought that the child had been abducted and reported it to the police. It turned out that the man was really the child's father. However, handicapped people could really be in need of help.
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嗯。谢谢你提醒我。有一次有个学生，他父亲刚去世，我不知道，我还问他父亲节要送什么礼物。
ng4 。xièxie nǐ tíxǐng wǒ 。yǒuyīcì yǒu ge xuésheng ，tā fùqin gāng qùshì ，wǒ bù zhīdào ，wǒ hái wèn tā fùqin jié yào sòng shénme lǐwù 。
OK. Thanks for letting me know. There was a student once whose father had just passed away. I didn't know and asked him what he was getting his father for Father's Day.
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有一次，他看到一只大田螺，就带回家，养在水缸里。
yǒuyīcì ，tā kàndào yī zhī dà tiánluó ，jiù dài huí jiā ，yǎng zài shuǐgāng lǐ 。
Once he found a large snail. He took it home and raised it in a jar of water.
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