空气污染 (空氣污染)
kōng qì wū rǎn
Pinyin

Definition

空气污染 (空氣污染)
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kōng qì wū rǎn
  1. air pollution

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

yè kōng
  1. 1 night sky
tiān kōng
  1. 1 sky
gǎn rǎn
  1. 1 infection
  2. 2 to infect
  3. 3 to influence
xīng kōng
  1. 1 starry sky
  2. 2 the heavens
shí kōng
  1. 1 time and place
  2. 2 world of a particular locale and era
  3. 3 (physics) space-time

Idioms (20)

一尘不染
yī chén bù rǎn
  1. 1 untainted by even a speck of dust (idiom); selfless and incorruptible
  2. 2 spotless
一纸空文
yī zhǐ kōng wén
  1. 1 a worthless piece of paper (idiom)
人去楼空
rén qù lóu kōng
  1. 1 the people are gone and the place is empty (idiom)
  2. 2 the sight of a deserted place brings old friends to mind
  3. 3 the place is deserted
  4. 4 the birds have flown
两手空空
liǎng shǒu kōng kōng
  1. 1 empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything
出淤泥而不染
chū yū ní ér bù rǎn
  1. 1 lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be principled and incorruptible

Sample Sentences

申办冬奥会,北京的劣势是空气污染。
shēnbàn dōngàohuì ,Běijīng de lièshì shì kōngqì wūrǎn 。
In applying to hold the Winter Olympics, Beijing's disadvantage is air pollution.
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I'm still not optimistic about the prospects for environmental protection. Just doing a few little things is not nearly enough. Everywhere you look are erosion, water shortages, and air pollution. If we don't start paying more attention, after a few more years, people will need masks and oxygen bottles to survive. What a huge tragedy.