雅思
Yǎ sī
Pinyin

Definition

雅思
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Yǎ sī
  1. IELTS (International English Language Testing System)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

yōu yǎ
  1. 1 grace
  2. 2 graceful
hǎo yì si
  1. 1 to have the nerve
  2. 2 what a cheek!
  3. 3 to feel no shame
  4. 4 to overcome the shame
  5. 5 (is it) proper? (rhetorical question)
sī niàn
  1. 1 to think of
  2. 2 to long for
  3. 3 to miss
sī xiǎng
  1. 1 thought
  2. 2 thinking
  3. 3 idea
  4. 4 ideology
  5. 5 classifier: 个 gè
sī wéi
  1. 1 (line of) thought
  2. 2 thinking

Idioms (20)

一日之雅
yī rì zhī yǎ
  1. 1 lit. friends for a day (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. casual acquaintance
一门心思
yī mén xīn si
  1. 1 to set one's heart on sth (idiom)
三思而后行
sān sī ér hòu xíng
  1. 1 think again and again before acting (idiom); consider carefully in advance
三思而行
sān sī ér xíng
  1. 1 think three times then go (idiom); don't act before you've thought it through carefully
不假思索
bù jiǎ sī suǒ
  1. 1 to act without taking time to think (idiom); to react instantly
  2. 2 to fire from the hip

Sample Sentences

他们啊,其实都抱着侥幸心理,以为神不知鬼不觉,哪里会想到这件事居然被央视“爆”出来了呢?再说,替考这条“利益链”存在也不是一天两天了,不仅高考,四六级托福、雅思等等英语等级考试,每年都能抓到不少“枪手”。
tāmen ā ,qíshí dōu bào zhe jiǎoxìng xīnlǐ ,yǐwéi shénbùzhīguǐbùjué ,nǎli huì xiǎngdào zhè jiàn shì jūrán bèi yāngshì “bào ”chūlái le ne ?zàishuō ,tìkǎo zhè tiáo “lìyìliàn ”cúnzài yě bù shì yītiān liǎngtiān le ,bùjǐn gāokǎo ,sìliùjí tuōfú 、yǎsī děngdeng yīngyǔ děngjí kǎoshì ,měinián dōu néng zhuādào bùshǎo “qiāngshǒu ”。
These people actually are all leaving it to chance and think they can keep it secret. Never would they think that this would unexpectedly be "burst" open by CCTV. Moreover, this "profit chain" of taking exams for others has not existed for just one or two days. And it is not just at the college entrance exam, but also at English graded tests like CET 4/6 exam, TOEFL, IELTS, etc. that many "stand-in examinees" are caught.