溺水
nì shuǐ
Pinyin
Definition
溺水
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- to drown
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一清如水
- 1 lit. as clear as water (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of officials etc) honest and incorruptible
一碗水端平
- 1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be impartial
一点水一个泡
- 1 honest and trustworthy (idiom)
三个和尚没水喝
- 1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
- 2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
- 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
- 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。”
After that time I almost drowned, I would never have the courage to swim again.This is “Once bitten, twice shy.”
可是你看新闻,每次到了暑假,溺水的意外就特别多。
But when you watch the news, every year when the summer holidays arrive, there are a particularly large number of drownings.