私人
sī rén
Pinyin

Definition

私人
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sī rén
  1. private
  2. personal
  3. interpersonal
  4. sb with whom one has a close personal relationship
  5. a member of one's clique

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

人
rén
  1. 1 man
  2. 2 person
  3. 3 people
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
  5. 5 classifier: 位 wèi
人生
rén shēng
  1. 1 life (one's time on earth)
别人
bié ren
  1. 1 other people
  2. 2 others
  3. 3 other person
女人
nǚ rén
  1. 1 woman
恋人
liàn rén
  1. 1 lover
  2. 2 sweetheart

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一鸣惊人
yī míng jīng rén
  1. 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
三人成虎
sān rén chéng hǔ
  1. 1 three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact
三人行，必有我师
sān rén xíng , bì yǒu wǒ shī
  1. 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
  2. 2 you have sth to learn from everyone
三个女人一台戏
sān ge nǚ rén yī tái xì
  1. 1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)

Sample Sentences

铁饭碗也会生锈啊，你待的私人企业才好，说不定快升职了呢！
tiěfànwǎn yě huì shēngxiù a ，nǐ dāi de sīrén qǐyè cái hǎo ，shuōbudìng kuài shēngzhí le ne ！
Stable jobs still wear out! Staying at a private business like you is better. Perhaps you are about to get a promotion!
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没想到现在博客这么流行，居然连不爱写文章的你也这么着迷。可是我很少去看别人的博客，我总觉得博客上写的都是很私人的事情，我不太感兴趣。
méixiǎngdào xiànzài bókè zhème liúxíng ，jūrán lián bù ài xiě wénzhāng de nǐ yě zhème zháomí 。kěshì wǒ hěnshǎo qùkàn biérén de bókè ，wǒ zǒng juéde bókè shang xiě de dōu shì hěn sīrén de shìqing ，wǒ bùtài gǎnxìngqù 。
I had no idea that blogs were so popular these days. Amazingly, even people like you who don't like to write articles have caught blog fever. But I rarely look at other people's blogs. I think the stuff on blogs is all personal and private. I'm not really interested in it.
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博客也可以涉及不同的主题呀，而不光是私人生活。
bókè yě kěyǐ shèjí bùtóng de zhǔtí yā ，ér bùguāng shì sīrén shēnghuó 。
Blogs can also touch on different kinds of topics-- they're not just about people's private lives.
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在国外的简历中，个人信息只需要提供姓名和联系方式，一般是不需要提供这些详细信息的。我觉得这些信息太过于私人化了，如果要求提供这些信息，不是容易造成种族，年龄或者外貌上的偏见吗？
zài guówài de jiǎnlì zhōng ，gèrén xìnxī zhǐ xūyào tígōng xìngmíng hé liánjì fāngshì ，yībān shì bù xūyào tígōng zhèxiē xiángxì xìnxī de 。wǒ juéde zhèxiē xìnxī tài guòyú sīrénhuà le ，rúguǒ yāoqiú tígōng zhèxiē xìnxī ，bùshì róngyì zàochéng zhǒngzú ，niánlíng huòzhě wàimào shàng de piānjiàn ma ？
In foreign resumes, you only need to provide your full name and contact information in the personal information section. They usually don't require you to provide this kind of detailed information. I think this information is too personal. If they ask you to provide these things, doesn't that make it easy to have prejudice based on race, age or appearance?
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嗯，我相信大多数老板更看重的是你的教育经历和工作经验，而不是私人信息。所以你大可以把这两个部分写得更充实一些。另外，这么正式的求职照也有点多余，国外的简历很少附上照片，毕竟是要看你的工作能力，而不是靠相貌取胜。
ng4 ，wǒ xiāngxìn dàduōshù lǎobǎn gèng kànzhòng de shì nǐ de jiàoyù jīnglì hé gōngzuò jīngyàn ，ér bù shì sīrén xìnxī 。suǒyǐ nǐ dà kěyǐ bǎ zhè liǎng ge bùfen xiě de gèng chōngshí yīxiē 。lìngwài ，zhème zhèngshì de qiúzhízhào yě yǒudiǎn duōyú ，guówài de jiǎnlì hěn shǎo fùshàng zhàopiàn ，bìjìng shì yào kàn nǐ de gōngzuò nénglì ，ér bù shì kào xiāngmào qǔshèng 。
Huh. I'm sure that the majority of bosses care much more about your education and work experience, and not about your personal information. So you could probably flesh out these two sections even more. Plus, such a formal picture is a bit much. It's very rare for foreign resumes to attach a photo. After all, whether you get the job depends on your work ability, not your looks.
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可以问一个比较私人的问题吗？
kěyǐ wèn yī gè bǐjiào sīrén de wèntí ma ？
Can I ask a personal question?
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我可不可以问你一个比较私人的问题？
wǒ kě bu kěyǐ wèn nǐ yī gè bǐjiào sīrén de wèntí ？
May I ask you a more personal question?
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公有停车场都停满了，私人呢，你又不是不知道，贵死了!我就满街绕啊绕，绕了十几圈，总算找到了一个路边的停车位。
gōngyǒu tíngchē chǎng dōu tíng mǎn le ，sīrén ne ，nǐ yòu bùshì bù zhīdào ，guì sǐ le !wǒ jiù mǎn jiē rào ā rào ，rào le shíjǐ quān ，zǒngsuàn zhǎodào le yī gè lùbiān de tíngchēwèi 。
All the public parking spaces were full. The private ones, well, it's not like you don't know, they're extortionate! I had to go round and round the block. After around ten laps, I finally found a parking space by the side of the road.
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怪不得你不开手机。原来是忙着跟女同事一块儿加班。我是不是打扰了你们的私人时间？
guàibude nǐ bù kāi shǒujī 。yuánlái shì mángzhe gēn nǚ tóngshì yīkuàir jiābān 。wǒ shì bu shì dǎrǎo le nǐmen de sīrén shíjiān ？
No wonder you didn’t turn on your cell phone. So it’s because you’re busy working overtime together with your female co-worker. Am I interrupting your private time together?
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这倒是。现在在校大学生都可以结婚了。可是我还是觉得住校是件挺没自由的事。好几个人一个房间，一点私人空间都没有。
zhèdàoshì 。xiànzài zàixiào dàxuéshēng dōu kěyǐ jiéhūn le 。kěshì wǒ hái shì juéde zhùxiào shì jiàn tǐng méi zìyóu de shì 。hǎo jǐ gè rén yī ge fángjiān ，yīdiǎn sīrén kōngjiān dōu méiyǒu 。
That's true. Now, on-campus students can get married. But I still think that living on-campus doesn't leave you much freedom. There's a lot of people in each room, and no personal space at all.
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