溺水
nì shuǐ
Pinyin

Definition

溺水
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nì shuǐ
  1. to drown

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

Shuǐ
  1. 1 surname Shui
shuǐ píng
  1. 1 level (of achievement etc)
  2. 2 standard
  3. 3 horizontal
shuǐ guǒ
  1. 1 fruit
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
Shuǐ píng zuò
  1. 1 Aquarius (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
yī tóu wù shuǐ
  1. 1 to be confused
  2. 2 to be baffled

Idioms (20)

一清如水
yī qīng rú shuǐ
  1. 1 lit. as clear as water (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of officials etc) honest and incorruptible
一碗水端平
yī wǎn shuǐ duān píng
  1. 1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be impartial
一点水一个泡
yī diǎn shuǐ yī gè pào
  1. 1 honest and trustworthy (idiom)
三个和尚没水喝
sān gè hé shang méi shuǐ hē
  1. 1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
  3. 3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)
不显山不露水
bù xiǎn shān bù lù shuǐ
  1. 1 lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts

Sample Sentences

差点溺水的那一次之后,我永远都不敢游泳了。这就是“一朝被蛇咬,十年怕草绳。”
chàdiǎn nìshuǐ de nà yīcì zhīhòu ,wǒ yǒngyuǎn dōu bù gǎn yóuyǒng le 。zhè jiùshì “yīzhāobèishéyǎo,shíniánpàcǎoshéng 。”
After that time I almost drowned, I would never have the courage to swim again.This is “Once bitten, twice shy.”
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可是你看新闻,每次到了暑假,溺水的意外就特别多。
kěshì nǐ kàn xīnwén ,měicì dào le shǔjià ,nìshuǐ de yìwài jiù tèbié duō 。
But when you watch the news, every year when the summer holidays arrive, there are a particularly large number of drownings.
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