街上
jiē shang
Pinyin

Definition

街上
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jiē shang
  1. on the street
  2. in town

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

上
shǎng
上班
shàng bān
  1. 1 to go to work
  2. 2 to be on duty
  3. 3 to start work
  4. 4 to go to the office
早上
zǎo shang
  1. 1 early morning
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
晚上
wǎn shang
  1. 1 evening
  2. 2 night
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 in the evening
上下
shàng xià
  1. 1 up and down
  2. 2 top and bottom
  3. 3 old and new
  4. 4 length
  5. 5 about

Idioms (20)

一哭二闹三上吊
yī kū èr nào sān shàng diào
  1. 1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)
  2. 2 to throw a tantrum
一条绳上的蚂蚱
yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zha
  1. 1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse
  3. 3 people who will sink or swim together
三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
上一次当，学一次乖
shàng yī cì dàng , xué yī cì guāi
  1. 1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
  2. 2 once bitten, twice shy
上下其手
shàng xià qí shǒu
  1. 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
  2. 2 fig. conspiring to defraud

Sample Sentences

没错吧，这样的男生一定家教很好，温文尔雅，又懂得保持身材。可是却真是不好找啊，现在往街上一站，满眼都是土肥圆。
méicuò ba ，zhèyàng de nánshēng yīdìng jiājiào hěn hǎo ，wēnwéněryǎ ，yòu dǒngde bǎochí shēncái 。kěshì què zhēn shì bù hǎo zhǎo ā ，xiànzài wǎng jiēshang yī zhàn ，mǎnyǎn dōu shì tǔ féi yuán 。
I would say so! This kind of man will have come from a good background and will be cultured and refined, as well as understanding how to maintain their figure. But they are quite hard to come by. Now if you go on to the street, there are UFRs as far as the eye can see.
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买咖啡呀。没看到吗，门口咖啡店的队都排到街上了。
mǎi kāfēi ya 。méi kàndào ma ，ménkǒu kāfēidiàn de duì dōu pái dào jiēshang le 。
To buy coffee. Can’t you see, the queue to the coffee shop has stretched to the street.
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街猫要住在街上，很可怜。
jiē māo yào zhùzài jiēshang ，hěn kělián 。
Street cats have to live on the street, poor cats!
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浓缩的才是精华嘛！对了，有人说在街上看到两个人打架，十有八九是北方人，您觉得呢？
nóngsuō de cáishì jīnghuá ma ！duìle ，yǒu rén shuō zài jiēshang kàndào liǎng ge rén dǎjià ，shíyǒubājiǔ shì běifāngrén ，nín juéde ne ？
Distilled down to the very essence, right? By the way, some people say that if you see two people fighting on the street, eight or nine times out of ten they're northerners. What do you think?
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去街上派发小样。
qù jiēshang pàifā xiǎoyàng 。
Give out samples on the street.
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街上很热闹，有商店，有书店，还有学校等等。
jiē shang hěn rènao ，yǒu shāngdiàn ，yǒu shūdiàn ，háiyǒu xuéxiào děngdeng 。
The streets were very lively - there were shops, bookstores and schools, etc.
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