白人
bái rén
Pinyin
Definition
白人
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- white man or woman
- Caucasian
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一清二白
- 1 perfectly clean
- 2 blameless
- 3 unimpeachable (idiom)
一鸣惊人
- 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
三人成虎
- 1 three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact
三人行,必有我师
- 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
- 2 you have sth to learn from everyone
Sample Sentences
你听我说完。进取号上的船员都是什么人?有白人、黑人、亚洲人、苏联人,他们本身就是种族融合的象征!还有,电视史上第一次白人和黑人接吻就是在《星际迷航》里!
Let me finish. What kind of people do they have on the Enterprise? There are whites, blacks, Asians, Russians-- they're inherently a symbol of racial blending. And plus, the first televised kiss between a white and a black was on Star Trek!