美洲
Měi zhōu
Pinyin

Definition

美洲
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Měi zhōu
  1. America (including North, Central and South America)
  2. the Americas
  3. abbr. for 亞美利加洲|亚美利加洲[Yà měi lì jiā Zhōu]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

完美
wán měi
  1. 1 perfect
  2. 2 perfection
  3. 3 perfectly
精美
jīng měi
  1. 1 delicate
  2. 2 fine
  3. 3 refinement
美
Měi
  1. 1 the Americas
  2. 2 abbr. for 美洲[Měi zhōu]
  3. 3 USA
  4. 4 abbr. for 美國|美国[Měi guó]
美人
měi rén
  1. 1 beauty
  2. 2 belle
美国
Měi guó
  1. 1 United States
  2. 2 USA
  3. 3 US

Idioms (19)

价廉物美
jià lián wù měi
  1. 1 inexpensive and of good quality (idiom)
两全其美
liǎng quán qí měi
  1. 1 to satisfy rival demands (idiom)
  2. 2 to get the best of both worlds
  3. 3 to have it both ways
  4. 4 to have one's cake and eat it too
十全十美
shí quán shí měi
  1. 1 complete and beautiful
  2. 2 to be perfect (idiom)
天公不作美
tiān gōng bù zuò měi
  1. 1 Heaven is not cooperating (idiom)
  2. 2 the weather is not favorable for the planned activity
天公作美
tiān gōng zuò měi
  1. 1 Heaven is cooperating (idiom)
  2. 2 the weather is favorable for the planned activity (a variation of 天公不作美|天公不作美[tiān gōng bù zuò měi])

Sample Sentences

巴西国博有逾二千万件藏品，其中最珍贵的包括美洲最早的人类头骨化石、落在巴西境内最大的陨石等。
Bāxī guóbó yǒu yú èrqiānwàn jiàn cángpǐn ，qízhōng zuì zhēnguì de bāokuò Měizhōu zuìzǎo de rénlèi tóugǔ huàshí 、luò zài Bāxī jìngnèi zuìdà de yǔnshí děng 。
Brazil has more than 20 million collections, the most precious of which include the earliest human skull fossils in the Americas and the largest meteorites in Brazil.
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一只美洲狮朝羚羊扑过去。
yī zhī měizhōushī cháo língyáng pū guòqù 。
A cougar pounced in the direction of the antelope.
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我是亚洲人，理论上说应该支持亚洲球队。但是我觉得他们的实力还是没办法和欧洲，南美洲或者非洲的球队相比。
wǒ shì yàzhōurén ，lǐlúnshàng shuō yīnggāi zhīchí Yàzhōu qiúduì 。dànshì wǒ juéde tāmen de shílì hái shì méi bànfǎ hé Ōuzhōu ，Nánměizhōu huòzhě Fēizhōu de qiúduì xiāngbǐ 。
I am Asian, so theoretically I should support the Asian teams. But I think that they still can’t match the level of play of teams from Europe, South America, and Africa.
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