警犬
jǐng quǎn
Pinyin
Definition
警犬
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- police dog
Character Decomposition
Idioms (9)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
以示警戒
- 1 to serve as a warning (idiom)
丧家之犬
- 1 stray dog (idiom)
惩一警百
- 1 lit. punish one, warn one hundred (idiom)
- 2 fig. to make an example of sb
- 3 also written 懲一儆百|惩一儆百[chéng yī jǐng bǎi]
杀鸡警猴
- 1 lit. killing the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others
- 2 pour encourager les autres
Sample Sentences
你这样做,说白了就是想绕过广东的海关口岸,把鸡翅走私进内地呗!别怪哥们儿没提醒你,现在平均一个月有好几十起查缴非法走私禽肉的案子。上回一个人把鸡翅用铁板封在集装箱夹层里,也没逃过边防警犬的鼻子。
Frankly, the way you're doing it, you really just want to get around Guangdong customs, and smuggle the chicken wings into the mainland! Can't blame your buddies for not reminding you, but lately, every month there's an average of a few dozen cases of people getting caught for smuggling poultry products. There was just a guy who tried to smuggle chicken wings in a false bottom in a shipping container. In the end, he couldn't get past the border police dogs' noses!