老太婆
lǎo tài pó
Pinyin
Definition
老太婆
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- old woman (at times contemptuous)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 highest
- 2 greatest
- 3 too (much)
- 4 very
- 5 extremely
- 1 prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity
- 2 old (of people)
- 3 venerable (person)
- 4 experienced
- 5 of long standing
- 6 always
- 7 all the time
- 8 of the past
- 9 very
- 10 outdated
- 11 (of meat etc) tough
- 1 (coll.) husband
- 1 (coll.) wife
Idioms (20)
一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥
- 1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom)
- 2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤
- 1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom)
- 2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
三姑六婆
- 1 women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
上有老下有小
- 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
- 3 sandwich generation
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
- 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
Sample Sentences
八戒嘀咕道:“糟了,方才猴哥打死的,莫非是这老太婆的女儿?!”
Pigsy whispered, "Oh no. Do you think the girl Monkey just killed is this woman's daughter?"
老太婆,老头子
Old woman, old man.
哎呀,老太婆,算了算了,快回去吧!大家都是邻居,这么大吵大闹像什么话?
Oh come on, ma'am, forget it! Go back inside! We're all neighbors here. How can you make such a big racket?