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1 son
2 child
3 seed
4 egg
5 small thing
6 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat
7 Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]
8 ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)

孩子

hái zi

1 child

Idioms (20)

一折两段

yī zhé liǎng duàn

1 to split sth into two (idiom)

一瓶子不响，半瓶子晃荡

yī píng zi bù xiǎng , bàn píng zi huàng dang

1 lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom)
2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise

不入虎穴，焉得虎子

bù rù hǔ xué , yān dé hǔ zǐ

1 How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

不见兔子不撒鹰

bù jiàn tù zi bù sā yīng

1 you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom)
2 one doesn't act without some incentive

乱臣贼子

luàn chén zéi zǐ

1 rebels and traitors (idiom)
2 general term for scoundrel

Sample Sentences

说的的一点儿没错，在高速公路上堵车等待也是常有的事，因为这种现象实在太普遍，还有些网路段子手拿这种现象来调侃。

shuōde de yīdiǎnr méicuò ，zài gāosùgōnglù shàng dǔchē děngdài yě shì chángyǒu de shì ，yīnwèi zhèzhǒng xiànxiàng shízài tài pǔbiàn ，hái yǒuxiē wǎnglù duànzishǒu ná zhèzhǒng xiànxiàng lái tiáokǎn 。

Yeah, ain't that the truth. People often find themselves waiting in a traffic jam on the highway and because it's so common a phenomenon, there are also lots of internet meme-makers mocking this state of affairs.

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网路段子手，哈哈！我知道，就是那些在网上很喜欢说笑话的人，他们说什么呀？

wǎnglù duànzishǒu ，hāhā ！wǒ zhīdào ，jiùshì nàxiē zàiwǎngshàng hěn xǐhuan shuō xiàohuà de rén ，tāmen shuō shénme ya ？

Internet meme-makers? Ha ha! I know, they are those people that like to make jokes online, what did they say?

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哈哈哈，真是太生动了，不愧是段子手。

hā hā hā ，zhēn shì tài shēngdòng le ，bùkuì shì duànzishǒu 。

Ha ha ha, what a hoot! They are not called meme-makers for nothing.

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嗯，第一桩事是还好，只是让他在朋友面前丢了脸而已。我们跟朋友一起聚餐，他们尽喜欢说污段子，这不，他们又讲了一个十分隐晦的污段子，不过污婆如我那还不是秒懂。

ng4 ，dì yī zhuāng shì shì hái hǎo ，zhǐshì ràng tā zài péngyou miànqián diū le liǎn éryǐ 。wǒmen gēn péngyou yīqǐ jùcān ，tāmen jìn xǐhuan shuō wūduànzi ，zhè bù ，tāmen yòu jiǎng le yī gè shífēn yǐnhuì de wūduànzi ，bùguò wūpó rú wǒ nà háibùshì miǎodǒng 。

Yeah, the first thing wasn't that big a deal, I just embarrassed him in front of his friends. We were eating together with a group of friends, and they really like to tell dirty jokes. Not just that, they were telling quite an obscure dirty joke, but it didn't take a second for a dirty wench like me to understand it.

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咳，在网上待久了，看到这些词早就见怪不怪了。这啊，就是有些网络段子手们把这个时代不同特质的人随意分了些类别。

hài ，zàiwǎngshàng dài jiǔ le ，kàndào zhèxiē cí zǎo jiù jiànguàibúguài le 。zhè ā ，jiùshì yǒuxiē wǎngluò duànzishǒu men bǎ zhè ge shídài bùtóng tèzhì de rén suíyì fēn le xiē lèibié 。

Huh, if you had been on the internet for any amount of time, you would already see them as normal. This is just a casual way in which the people who make internet memes divide people into categories by different characteristics nowadays.

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嗯，同意，说到点子上了。老外的段子比较开放，性、领导人什么都谈。中国人的话，还是比较喜欢含蓄的表达。

ng4 ，tóngyì ，shuōdào diǎnzi shàng le 。lǎowài de duànzi bǐjiào kāifàng ，xìng 、lǐngdǎorén shénme dōu tán 。Zhōngguórén dehuà ，háishì bǐjiào xǐhuan hánxù de biǎodá 。

Yeah, I agree. I think you're spot on. A foreigner's routine is more open; sex, leaders and everything can all be brought up. Chinese people, though, tend to like more reserved acts.

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