渡船
dù chuán
Pinyin
Definition
渡船
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- ferry
Character Decomposition
Idioms (11)
上贼船
- 1 lit. to board a pirate ship (idiom)
- 2 fig. to associate with criminals
明修栈道,暗渡陈仓
- 1 lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wèi Hé] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liú Bāng] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiàng Yǔ] of Chu)
- 2 fig. to feign one thing while doing another
- 3 to cheat under cover of a diversion
暗渡陈仓
- 1 lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wèi Hé] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liú Bāng] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiàng Yǔ] of Chu)
- 2 fig. to feign one thing while doing another
- 3 to cheat under cover of a diversion
水涨船高
- 1 the tide rises, the boat floats (idiom); fig. to change with the overall trend
- 2 to develop according to the situation
脚踏两条船
- 1 lit. to stand with each foot in a different boat (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have it both ways
- 3 to run after two hares
- 4 (especially) to have two lovers at the same time
Sample Sentences
嗯,早晨8点的渡船,大概两个多小时左右到的吧。
Uh-huh. Around eight o'clock in the morning we took the ferry. We got there in just over two hours, or so.