苗
Miáo
Pinyin
Definition
苗
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- Hmong or Miao ethnic group of southwest China
- surname Miao
苗
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- sprout
Character Decomposition
Idioms (2)
互别苗头
- 1 to compete with (idiom) (Tw)
- 2 to pit oneself against
拔苗助长
- 1 to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)
Sample Sentences
没错,孩子也需要休息。特别是年纪小小就得学习那么多那么久,真是揠苗助长啊!
That's right, children need to rest too. Particularly when the really young have to study for so long, it really is spoiling things through excessive enthusiasm!
嗨!大家好!小刘我前阵子身体不太舒服,还好买到这台长生佛生机精华萃取机,我手上这台萃取机获得世界发明大奖,经过无数名人试用,叫好又叫座,有了它,可以做菜、做汤、做豆浆;给您做牛、做马、做苦力,小至豆苗、大至胡桃,没有它切不开、磨不碎的。
Hi Everyone! I haven’t been feeling all that great recently, but luckily I managed to get my hands on the Immortal Buddha Vital Essence Extractor. This extractor has won global invention prizes and been tried out by countless celebrities. Its quality is reflected in its incredible sales. With it you can create dishes, make soup, make soybean milk; it can be your ox and your workhorse, it can do all the hard work. There's nothing it can't break open or grind up, from as small as bean sprout to as large as a walnut.
我的天哪,你是有多么地根红苗正啊。不过我也是,就是那个在下面喊口号的,“时刻准备着,为了共产主义事业而奋斗!”
My gosh, you really are a good communist through and through. But I am too, I was the one calling out the slogans under the flag, "Ready at any moment, to struggle in the Communist project."
你看吧,1979年,国家出政策了,1980年开始,实行计划生育了,兄弟姐妹没有了,只剩一棵独苗苗了。
Look, in 1979, the country came up with a policy which was launched in 1980, to implement family planning. So without brothers and sisters, only us only children remained.
我看不靠谱,你瞧那河马,整天在水里游啊游的,就没见它苗条过,我还是想想别的法子吧。
I don't think that's very reliable. Look at the hippo. It spends every day swimming about, and I've never seen it slender. I should really think of something else.
小时候提到僵尸,都跟怪力乱神的事连在一起,什么道士作法啊、符箓、鬼怪等等,现在提到僵尸,似乎都跟病毒、传染病、疫苗、世界末日什么的连在一起了。
Whenever people would bring up zombies and magical forces when I was little, it was always to do with Taoist spells, curses, ghosts and monsters, but now when people talk of zombies, it is associated more with viruses, infections, vaccines and stuff like the apocalypse.
有国产疫苗和进口疫苗。国产的是免费的。进口的要收费。
There are Chinese-made and imported vaccines. The Chinese-made are free. There is a charge for the imported.
我看一下哦,是乙肝疫苗。
I'll take a look. It's the hepatitis B vaccine.
明天要带宝宝去地段医院打疫苗针,你请好假了吗?
Tomorrow you need to take the baby to the Neighbourhood Hospital to get vaccinated. Did you ask for time off?
用在孩子身上的钱不能省。进口疫苗贵是贵了点,但是应该更好更安全吧。一分价钱一分货。
We can't scrimp on the money we spend on our child. The imported vaccine is expensive, but it should be better and more safe. You get what you pay for.