逃兵
táo bīng
Pinyin

Definition

逃兵
 - 
táo bīng
  1. army deserter

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

兵器
bīng qì
  1. 1 weaponry
  2. 2 weapons
  3. 3 arms
士兵
shì bīng
  1. 1 soldier
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
奇兵
qí bīng
  1. 1 troops appearing suddenly (in a raid or ambush)
特种兵
tè zhǒng bīng
  1. 1 commando
  2. 2 special forces soldier
逃
táo
  1. 1 to escape
  2. 2 to run away
  3. 3 to flee

Idioms (20)

仓皇出逃
cāng huáng chū táo
  1. 1 to run off in a great panic (idiom)
先礼后兵
xiān lǐ hòu bīng
  1. 1 peaceful measures before using force (idiom); diplomacy before violence
  2. 2 jaw-jaw is better than war-war
全民皆兵
quán mín jiē bīng
  1. 1 to bring the entire nation to arms (idiom)
兵不血刃
bīng bù xuè rèn
  1. 1 lit. no blood on the men's swords (idiom); fig. an effortless victory
兵来将挡，水来土掩
bīng lái jiàng dǎng , shuǐ lái tǔ yǎn
  1. 1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
  2. 2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation

Sample Sentences

我就是这么过来的，开始的时候真不适应，又不能当逃兵，想死的心都有。
wǒ jiùshì zhème guòlai de ，kāishǐ de shíhou zhēn bù shìyìng ，yòu bù néng dāng táobīng ，xiǎng sǐ de xīn dōu yǒu 。
That's how I came over. In the beginning I really wasn't used to it and also couldn't desert. I really wanted to die.
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一看你就是贪生怕死的人。要是打仗，你肯定第一个当逃兵。
yī kàn nǐ jiù shì tānshēngpàsǐ de rén 。yàoshì dǎzhàng ，nǐ kěndìng dì yī ge dāng táobīng 。
I can tell that you're a real coward. If there was a battle, you'd be the first deserter.
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哎！我也就一逃兵！不想在这儿混了，房价高，工资低，啥时候才能给老婆孩子一个窝啊！
āi ！wǒ yě jiù yī táobīng ！bù xiǎng zài zhèr hùn le ，fángjià gāo ，gōngzī dī ，shá shíhou cái néng gěi lǎopo háizi yī gè wō a ！
Agh! I'm just a deserter! I don't want to just keep drifting along here. Housing prices are high, salaries are low; when will I ever be able to provide a nice home for my wife and kid!
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