条条大路通罗马 (條條大路通羅馬)
tiáo tiáo dà lù tōng Luó mǎ
Pinyin

Definition

条条大路通罗马 (條條大路通羅馬)
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tiáo tiáo dà lù tōng Luó mǎ
  1. all roads lead to Rome
  2. use different means to obtain the same result (idiom)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

大
dà
  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
大吉
dà jí
  1. 1 very auspicious
  2. 2 extremely lucky
大学
Dà xué
  1. 1 the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Sì shū] in Confucianism
大家
dà jiā
  1. 1 everyone
  2. 2 influential family
  3. 3 great expert
大奖
dà jiǎng
  1. 1 prize
  2. 2 award

Idioms (20)

一条路走到黑
yī tiáo lù zǒu dào hēi
  1. 1 lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to stick to one's ways
  3. 3 to cling to one's course
一窍不通
yī qiào bù tōng
  1. 1 lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head)
  2. 2 I don't understand a word (idiom)
  3. 3 it's all Greek to me
一路顺风
yī lù shùn fēng
  1. 1 to have a pleasant journey (idiom)
一通百通
yī tōng bǎi tōng
  1. 1 grasp this fundamental point and all the rest will follow (idiom)
上天无路，入地无门
shàng tiān wú lù , rù dì wú mén
  1. 1 lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be at the end of one's rope
  3. 3 to be trapped in a hopeless situation

Sample Sentences

对哦！条条大路通罗马。在这儿肯定能发财！
duì ō ！tiáotiáo dàlù tōng Luómǎ 。zài zhèr kěndìng néng fācái ！
True! All roads lead to Rome. You could definitely get rich here!
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条条大路通罗马。反正我不想走读书这条路。你看我爸，数学一塌糊涂，炒股票照样赚钱。
tiáotiáo dàlù tōng Luómǎ 。fǎnzhèng wǒ bù xiǎng zǒu dúshū zhè tiáo lù 。nǐ kàn wǒ bà ，shùxué yītāhútu ，chǎo gǔpiào zhàoyàng zhuànqián 。
All roads lead to Rome. In any case, I don't want to take the studying road. Look at my dad, he's a mess at math, and by speculating in the stock market he makes money all the same.
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