末班车 (末班車)
mò bān chē
Pinyin

Definition

末班车 (末班車)
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mò bān chē
  1. last bus or train
  2. last chance

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

shàng bān
  1. 1 to go to work
  2. 2 to be on duty
  3. 3 to start work
  4. 4 to go to the office
xià bān
  1. 1 to finish work
  2. 2 to get off work
Bān
  1. 1 surname Ban
shàng xià bān
  1. 1 to start and finish work
shàng bān zú
  1. 1 office workers (as social group)

Idioms (7)

强弩之末
qiáng nǔ zhī mò
  1. 1 lit. an arrow at the end of its flight (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. spent force
按部就班
àn bù jiù bān
  1. 1 to follow the prescribed order; to keep to the working routine (idiom)
舍本逐末
shě běn zhú mò
  1. 1 to neglect the root and pursue the tip (idiom)
  2. 2 to neglect fundamentals and concentrate on details
本末倒置
běn mò dào zhì
  1. 1 lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect
  2. 2 to stress the incidental over the fundamental
  3. 3 to put the cart before the horse
班荆相对
bān jīng xiāng duì
  1. 1 to treat sb with courtesy (idiom)

Sample Sentences

糟糕,赶不上末班车了,这下子该怎么办?
zāogāo ,gǎnbushàng mòbānchē le ,zhèxiàzi gāi zěnme bàn ?
Darn it, we missed the last train. What should we do now?
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你小子这次动作快,让你赶上了末班车。否则后天开始可就要摇号上牌了。
nǐ xiǎozi zhècì dòngzuò kuài ,ràng nǐ gǎnshàng le mòbānchē 。fǒuzé hòutiān kāishǐ kě jiù yào yáohào shàngpái le 。
You really jumped on buying this car, huh? Now you still have a chance at getting plates. Otherwise, you'd have to go through the lottery system that starts the day after tomorrow.
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