邻家 (鄰家)
lín jiā
Pinyin

Definition

邻家 (鄰家)
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lín jiā
  1. next-door neighbor
  2. neighboring household
  3. adjacent country (short for 鄰接的國家|邻接的国家[lín jiē de guó jiā])

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

家
jiā
  1. 1 see also: 家伙 jiā huo
回家
huí jiā
  1. 1 to return home
大家
dà jiā
  1. 1 everyone
  2. 2 influential family
  3. 3 great expert
玩家
wán jiā
  1. 1 player (of a game)
  2. 2 enthusiast (audio, model planes etc)
人家
rén jiā
  1. 1 household
  2. 2 dwelling
  3. 3 family
  4. 4 sb else's house
  5. 5 household business
  6. 6 house of woman's husband-to-be
  7. 7 classifier: 户 hù
  8. 8 classifier: 家 jiā

Idioms (20)

不是一家人不进一家门
bù shì yī jiā rén bù jìn yī jiā mén
  1. 1 people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom)
  2. 2 marriages are predestined
  3. 3 people marry because they share common traits
不是冤家不聚头
bù shì yuān jiā bù jù tóu
  1. 1 destiny will make enemies meet (idiom)
  2. 2 (often said about lovers who have a disagreement)
不当家不知柴米贵
bù dāng jiā bù zhī chái mǐ guì
  1. 1 a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)
事怕行家
shì pà háng jiā
  1. 1 an expert always produces the best work (idiom)
五百年前是一家
wǔ bǎi nián qián shì yī jiā
  1. 1 five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)

Sample Sentences

你这是什么心态？我们自己人在外发展得好，应该为她高兴才对。你怎么还拆人家的台呢？我觉得子怡挺好的。长相清秀，刚出道时像个邻家小女孩儿。这几年见了世面，就越发有韵味了。
nǐ zhè shì shénme xīntài ？wǒmen zìjǐrén zàiwài fāzhǎn de hǎo ，yīnggāi wèi tā gāoxìng cái duì 。nǐ zěnme hái chāi rénjiā de tái ne ？wǒ juéde Zǐyí tǐng hǎo de 。zhǎngxiàng qīngxiù ，gāng chūdào shí xiàng ge línjiā xiǎonǚháir 。zhèjǐnián jiàn le shìmiàn ，jiù yuèfā yǒu yùnwèi le 。
What in the world do you mean? One of our own got far in the outside world. We should be happy for her. Why are you raining on her parade? I think Ziyi is great. She looks clean and fresh. When she first got started she looked like the-girl-next-door. In the last few years she's gotten to see the world, and so she gets more charming all the time.
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所以说你的品味有问题嘛。说得好听点是邻家小女孩儿，其实就一土包子。中国比她漂亮的女孩儿一抓就是一大把。她要脸蛋没脸蛋，要身材没身材。面黄肌瘦，简直就是营养不良。扔在人群里绝对没人注意。只是到了好莱坞，物以稀为贵，才被捧上了天，觉得她是沉鱼落雁的东方美人。
suǒyǐ shuō nǐ de pǐnwèi yǒuwèntí ma 。shuō de hǎotīng diǎn shì línjiā xiǎonǚháir ，qíshí jiù yī tǔbāozi 。Zhōngguó bǐ tā piàoliang de nǚháir yī zhuā jiùshì yīdàbǎ 。tā yào liǎndàn méi liǎndàn ，yào shēncái méi shēncái 。miànhuángjīshòu ，jiǎnzhí jiùshì yíngyǎng bùliáng 。rēng zài rénqún lǐ juéduì méirén zhùyì 。zhǐshì dào le Hǎoláiwù ，wùyǐxīwéiguì ，cái bèi pěngshàng le tiān ，juéde tā shì chényúluòyàn de dōngfāng měirén 。
So that's why I say there's something wrong with your taste. To put a nice gloss on it, she's the-girl-next-door. Actually, she's a country bumpkin. In China, prettier girls than her are a dime a dozen. Her face is nothing great, and neither is her figure. Her face is yellow and there's no meat on her bones. She's just not getting enough nutrition. If you had her stand in a crowd, no one would pay attention to her. It's just that when she got to Hollywood, rare things are more valuable, and she was put on a pedestal. They thought she was an unspeakably beautiful Eastern lady.
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