重庆 (重慶)
Chóng qìng
Pinyin
Definition
重庆 (重慶)
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- Chongqing city (Chungking), formerly in Sichuan province, a municipality since 1997, short name 渝[Yú]
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一言为重
- 1 each word carries weight
- 2 a promise must be kept (idiom)
不知轻重
- 1 lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things
- 2 naive
- 3 doesn't know who's who
- 4 no sense of priorities
功高望重
- 1 high merit and worthy prospects (idiom)
千里送鹅毛,礼轻人意重
- 1 goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
千里送鹅毛,礼轻情意重
- 1 goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.
Sample Sentences
三天。然后去重庆。
Three days. Then I'll go to Chongqing.
吃饭喽,大家快来尝尝我的手艺,今天中午我们吃重庆特色菜,酸菜鱼。
Time to eat, come everyone and taste my cooking. For lunch today we're having a Chongqing specialty, fried fish with pickled cabbage.
还有重庆的麻辣火锅。这火锅最关键的就是底料,重庆火锅的底料是出了名的麻和辣,一般人还真受不了。
There's also Chongqing spicy hotpot. The key ingredient in this hotpot is the base. The base of Chongqing hotpot is famous for being both the tingling kind of spicy and the hot kind of spicy. Normal people can't take the heat.
哇,我知道这酸菜鱼可是重庆的特色菜之一。你们家乡菜中除了这个酸菜鱼,还有什么特色菜?
Wow, I know that fried fish with pickled cabbage is one of Chongqing's specialties. What other dishes are there from your homeplace, as well as fried fish with pickled cabbage?
重庆的麻辣火锅我是见识过的,连我这北方人都不太受得了那辣。
I've come across Chongqing spicy hotpot before, even a northerner like me can't take that level of spice.
这样吧,我们这周末搭高铁去重庆吃麻辣锅怎么样?
So how about going to Chongqing this weekend for spicy hot pot?
昨天,国家发改委公布了十月份城市食品零售价格的监测情况。在监测的31种食品当中,近百分之八十的食品价格上涨。本次监测针对北京、上海、重庆等36个大中城市。监测食品包括��菜、粮油、鲜肉类,及水果共31个产品。
Yesterday, the National Development and Reform Commission announced their October findings for the urban retail food prices survey. Among the 31 types of foods observed, 80% of prices had gone up. The survey focused on Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and 36 other large and medium-sized cities and included vegetables, grains, cooking oil, meats, and fruits – 31 products in all.
哎,我这是口误。你别老插嘴,行不行?中国东部沿海的人口比较多。上海、北京、重庆和广州是拥有千万人口的超大型城市,其中上海的人口最多......。
Hey, that was a slip of the tongue. Don't keep on interrupting me, all right? The population of the eastern coast of China is comparatively higher. Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing and Guangzhou are super-sized cities with populations in the tens of millions. Amongst them, Shanghai's population is the largest...
重庆最多。行了、行了,一大堆错误。你看的是什么资料?
Chongqing is the largest. All right already! A huge pile of mistakes. What material did you look at?
你傻啊?那么一点钱,离市区那么远的房子,我才不要呢。你看,重庆最牛的钉子户,就是不搬,跟你拼到底,最后拿到的补偿比别人好多了。
Are you stupid? Such a small amount of money, a house so far from the city center-- that I definitely don't want. Look at the most stubborn relocation rebel in Chongqing. He just plain wouldn't move -- he fought until the bitter end. In the end, the compensation he received was much better than what others got.