灯火 (燈火)
dēng huǒ
Pinyin
Definition
灯火 (燈火)
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- lights
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
不到火候不揭锅
- 1 don't act until the time is ripe (idiom)
刀山火海
- 1 lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames
- 2 fig. extreme danger (idiom)
厝火积薪
- 1 lit. to put a fire under a pile of firewood (idiom)
- 2 fig. hidden danger
- 3 imminent danger
城门失火，殃及池鱼
- 1 a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer
- 2 fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions
- 3 ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee
如火如荼
- 1 like wildfire (idiom)
- 2 unstoppable
Sample Sentences
我们要看的就是你们原汁原味的生活。像你们这种建在河边的房子就很有特色，外面看起来是传统的吊脚楼。晚上睡在里面，听着潺潺的流水声，看着河两岸的灯火，这感觉真棒。
What we want to see is what your lives were really like. Like these buildings that you build on the riverside – they're so distinctive. From the outside, they look like the traditional stilt-houses. Sleeping inside at night, listening to the babbling sounds of flowing water, watching the lights on both sides of the river – it's such a great feeling.
是啊，里面灯火通明，好像还有一群人走来走去。
Yeah. It's really well-lit. Looks like there's a group of people walking back and forth there.