立下
lì xià
Pinyin
Definition
立下
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- to set up
- to establish
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 (used after a verb) give it a go
- 2 to do (sth for a bit to give it a try)
- 3 one time
- 4 once
- 5 in a while
- 6 all of a sudden
- 7 all at once
- 1 down
- 2 downwards
- 3 below
- 4 lower
- 5 later
- 6 next (week etc)
- 7 second (of two parts)
- 8 to decline
- 9 to go down
- 10 to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc)
- 11 measure word to show the frequency of an action
- 1 to download
- 2 also pr. [xià zài]
- 1 land under heaven
- 2 the whole world
- 3 the whole of China
- 4 realm
- 5 rule
Idioms (20)
三下两下
- 1 quickly and effortlessly (idiom)
三十而立
- 1 thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)
上下其手
- 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
- 2 fig. conspiring to defraud
上有天堂,下有苏杭
- 1 lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭|苏杭[Sū Háng] below (idiom)
- 2 fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven
上有政策,下有对策
- 1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)
Sample Sentences
那些曾经立下赫赫战功的英雄部队,轮流来到这个练兵场,带着不进则退的危机感在实战化训练中揣摩现代战争的精髓,以锐意进取的自我更新,锤炼现代战争制胜之道。
Heroic troops with an impressive record on the battlefield have come in turns to this training ground, with a sense of crisis in that not making progress itself is falling behind, trying their hardest to figure out the essence of modern warfare in live fire exercises, making determined efforts to improve themselves, and refining the path to victory in the era of modern warfare.