窍门 (竅門)
qiào mén
Pinyin
Definition
窍门 (竅門)
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- a trick
- an ingenious method
- know-how
- the knack (of doing sth)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一窍不通
- 1 lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head)
- 2 I don't understand a word (idiom)
- 3 it's all Greek to me
一门心思
- 1 to set one's heart on sth (idiom)
七窍生烟
- 1 lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom)
- 2 fig. to seethe with anger
上天无路,入地无门
- 1 lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be at the end of one's rope
- 3 to be trapped in a hopeless situation
不是一家人不进一家门
- 1 people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom)
- 2 marriages are predestined
- 3 people marry because they share common traits
Sample Sentences
窍门
Tip.
没想到学习多音字还有这么多窍门。太好了,今后我再也不用死记硬背了。
I had no idea that characters with multiple readings had so many tricks to help remember them. Excellent. From now on I won't just memorize them one after another.
用多了就有窍门了,多看几页就行了呗。我觉得中文搜索还是百度强。内容是Google的好几倍呢。而且好多新网页第一时间就能搜到,Google就不行。
Use it for a while and you'll discover some tricks-of-the-trade; just look at a few more pages and you'll be fine. I think that for searching in Chinese, Baidu is still your best bet. It has several times as much content as Google. Plus, a lot of new web pages are immediately available there. Google can't do that.
得得得,赵老师,不愧是老前辈,没让我给绕进去。其实今天我们的话题就是“醋的妙用”。您平时有什么关于吃醋的小窍门吗?
Alright, Mr. Zhao. There's no denying you're an old hand at this. You didn't get taken in by me! Actually, our topic today is ``The Incredible Uses of Vinegar." What little tricks for eating vinegar do you use ordinarily?
老板早!您穿西装真好看。您身材保持得这么好,肯定有什么窍门吧?
Good morning boss! You look good in a suit. You've really stayed in shape. You must have some secret technique?
噢,原来是这样。不过现在,好多古董家具都是仿制品。你有什么分辨的窍门吗?
Oh, I see. But nowadays a lot of antique furniture is just replicas. Do you have any tricks for distinguishing the two?