炒蛋
chǎo dàn
Pinyin
Definition
炒蛋
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- scrambled eggs
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 painted eggshell
- 2 Easter egg
- 3 (media) Easter egg (hidden feature in software or a movie etc)
- 4 post-credits scene
- 1 to sauté
- 2 to stir-fry
- 3 to speculate
- 4 to hype
- 5 to fire (sb)
Idioms (7)
生炒热卖
- 1 to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)
苍蝇不叮无缝蛋
- 1 lit. flies do not attack an intact egg (idiom)
- 2 fig. no smoke without a fire
鸡蛋碰石头
- 1 lit. an egg colliding with a rock (idiom)
- 2 fig. to attack sb stronger than oneself
- 3 to overrate one's abilities
鸡蛋里挑骨头
- 1 to look for bones in an egg
- 2 to find fault
- 3 to nitpick (idiom)
鸡飞蛋打
- 1 the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken
- 2 a dead loss (idiom)
Sample Sentences
我要一个炒蛋,一个水煮蛋。
I want one scrambled egg, one boiled egg.
我做得很好。我的拿手菜是番茄炒蛋。
I cook very well. My specialty is tomatoes with fried eggs.