杳无音信 (杳無音信)
yǎo wú yīn xìn
Pinyin
Definition
杳无音信 (杳無音信)
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- to have no news whatever
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 letter
- 2 mail
- 3 classifier: 封 fēng
- 4 to trust
- 5 to believe
- 6 to profess faith in
- 7 truthful
- 8 confidence
- 9 trust
- 10 at will
- 11 at random
- 1 information
- 2 news
- 3 message
- 1 to be convinced (that sth is true)
- 2 to believe
- 3 to accept sth as true
- 1 text message
- 2 SMS
Idioms (17)
信口开河
- 1 to speak without thinking (idiom)
- 2 to blurt sth out
信孚中外
- 1 to be trusted both at home and abroad (idiom)
信心百倍
- 1 brimming with confidence (idiom)
家丑不可外传,流言切莫轻信
- 1 Don't spread abroad the shame of the family, don't believe rumors lightly. (idiom)
- 2 Don't wash your dirty linen in public, don't listen to others' gossip.
杳如黄鹤
- 1 to be gone forever (idiom)
- 2 to disappear without a trace
Sample Sentences
哦,如果说了得去洗澡了,然后洗着洗着就像死在了浴室一样,再也杳无音信,你也就拉倒吧。最值得拉到黑名单的就是,明明应该已经死在了浴室,却突然更新了朋友圈。
Oh, if they say they have to go shower, then keep washing and washing, so it seems like they must have died in the bathtub, and if there is still no news, then you should just let it go. The most deserving thing to be put on the blacklist is that he should, by rights, already have died in the bathtub, but then they suddenly has a new update on Moments.
还有好几本,但这不是重点。我怀上你以后,有一天他听说罗布泊发现有生命迹象,第二天他就心一横,留下一封信就丢下我们全家,独自去了罗布泊,从此杳无音信!是死是活都不知道。这像是一个有良心的丈夫和父亲做的事吗?我一辈子都不会原谅他!
There are lots of others. But that's not the important thing. After I got pregnant with you, he heard one day that traces of life had been discovered in the Lop Nor. The next day, he left us a letter and rushed off. He abandoned our family and went on his own to the Lop Nor. And there's never been a sign of him since! We don't even know if he's alive or dead. Does that seem like something a good husband and father would do? I'll never forgive him!