零食
líng shí
Pinyin
Definition
零食
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- between-meal nibbles
- snacks
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 culinary delicacy
- 2 fine food
- 3 gourmet food
- 1 zero
- 2 nought
- 3 zero sign
- 4 fractional
- 5 fragmentary
- 6 odd (of numbers)
- 7 (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one)
- 8 fraction
- 9 (in mathematics) remainder (after division)
- 10 extra
- 11 to wither and fall
- 12 to wither
- 1 between-meal nibbles
- 2 snacks
- 1 to eat
- 2 food
- 3 animal feed
- 4 eclipse
Idioms (20)
七零八落
- 1 (idiom) everything broken and in disorder
三旬九食
- 1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation
- 3 in dire straits
人为财死,鸟为食亡
- 1 lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom)
- 2 fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich
化整为零
- 1 to break up the whole into pieces (idiom); dealing with things one by one
- 2 divide and conquer
四海飘零
- 1 drifting aimlessly all over the place (idiom)
Sample Sentences
小朋友的零食呢?
What about the snacks for the kids?
妈,干嘛买那么多吃的东西?平常我千拜托万拜托你都不肯多买一些零食!
Mom, why did you buy so much food? Normally you never agree to buy any snacks no matter how much I beg!
行。家里还有零食吗?
Okay. Do we have snacks at home?
水果,零食,有需要的吗?
Fruit, snacks, anything you want?
水果,零食,有需要的吗?
Fruit, snacks, anything you want?
家里有零食吗?
Are there any snacks in the house?
老公,你看看那个包包里零食还有吗?我肚子饿了。
Honey, take a look in that bag and see if there are any more snacks. I'm hungry.
我就自己想买什么买什么。买零食什么......雪糕啊。
哎呀,现在零食的广告和包装都那么诱人,我看了就馋。每次去超市,本来不想买的,可是最后还是买了一大堆。买了当然要吃咯。
Geez, these days snack ads and packaging are so enticing, as soon as I see them I get the munchies. Every time I go to the grocery store, even though I'm not planning to buy them, I still end up with a whole pile of them. And if I buy them of course I'm going to eat them.
这就不用你操心了。我不会把它当饭吃的,零食本来就是闲的时候吃的嘛。
You don't need to worry about that. I won't make a meal out of them. Snacks are for munching on when you're bored.