长篇小说 (長篇小說)
cháng piān xiǎo shuō
Pinyin
Definition
长篇小说 (長篇小說)
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- novel
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
上有老下有小
- 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
- 3 sandwich generation
不拘小节
- 1 to not bother about trifles (idiom)
以小人之心,度君子之腹
- 1 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)
以小挤大
- 1 minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)
千篇一律
- 1 thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive
- 2 once you've seen one, you've seen them all
Sample Sentences
对啊,我记得当时莫言获奖的作品是一部叫《蛙》的长篇小说,这部小说一夜之间就成了最畅销的书籍,但谁又能说它比莫言其他的作品更优秀呢?
Yes, I remember at the time that the work that Mo Yan won the prize for was a full-length novel called Frog and it became a bestseller overnight, but who is to say it's better than any of his other works?