霸道
bà dào
Pinyin

Definition

霸道
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bà dào
  1. the Way of the Hegemon
  2. abbr. for 霸王之道
  3. despotic rule
  4. rule by might
  5. evil as opposed to the Way of the King 王道
  6. overbearing
  7. tyranny
  8. (of liquor, medicine etc) strong
  9. potent

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

味道
wèi dao
  1. 1 flavor
  2. 2 smell
  3. 3 hint of
知道
zhī dào
  1. 1 to know
  2. 2 to become aware of
  3. 3 also pr. [zhī dao]
世道
shì dào
  1. 1 the ways of the world
  2. 2 the morals of the time
公道
gōng dào
  1. 1 justice
  2. 2 fairness
  3. 3 public highway
出道
chū dào
  1. 1 to make one's first public performance (of an entertainer etc)
  2. 2 to start one's career

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一语道破
yī yǔ dào pò
  1. 1 one word says it all (idiom)
  2. 2 to hit the nail on the head
  3. 3 to be pithy and correct
不足为外人道
bù zú wéi wài rén dào
  1. 1 no use to tell others
  2. 2 let's keep this between ourselves (idiom)
仁义道德
rén yì dào dé
  1. 1 compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues
  2. 2 mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical
以其人之道，还治其人之身
yǐ qí rén zhī dào , huán zhì qí rén zhī shēn
  1. 1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game
  2. 2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine

Sample Sentences

首先当然得是霸道男总裁式的啊，因为只有那样的才可以点亮我的那颗玛丽苏少女心。
shǒuxiān dāngrán děi shì bàdào nán zǒngcái shì de ā ，yīnwèi zhǐyǒu nàyàng de cái kěyǐ diǎnliàng wǒ de nà kē Mǎlìsū shàonǚxīn 。
First of all, of course I'd like an overbearing CEO-type because only that kind of man can get my Mary-Sue heart going.
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当然不会只有霸道这一条，他还得温柔，对女生有绅士风度，得是贴心大暖男。
dāngrán bùhuì zhǐyǒu bàdào zhè yī tiáo ，tā hái děi wēnróu ，duì nǚshēng yǒu shēnshì fēngdù ，děi shì tiēxīn dà nuǎnnán 。
Of course I don't just want someone who is overbearing, he has to be gentle too, and behave like a gentleman around women. He has to be a considerate, warm-hearted guy.
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霸道男总裁，那会不会很直男癌啊？
bàdào nán zǒngcái ，nà huì bùhuì hěn zhínánái ā ？
An overbearing CEO-type? Isn't that quite chauvinistic?
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温柔与霸道不冲突吗？你也太自相矛盾了吧。
wēnróu yǔ bàdào bù chōngtú ma ？nǐ yě tài zìxiāngmáodùn le ba 。
Warm-hearted and overbearing... don't they conflict? You're really contradicting yourself.
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霸道就是只占有我啊，哈哈！温柔则是占有我以后只对我好，不给别人机会。
bàdào jiùshì zhī zhànyǒu wǒ ā ，hāhā ！wēnróu zéshì zhànyǒu wǒ yǐhòu zhī duì wǒ hǎo ，bù gěi biérén jīhuì 。
The overbearing part is just that he wants to possess me, haha! The warm-hearted part is him only being nice to me after he's possessed me and not giving other people any opportunities.
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哎，这些暴发户怎么这么霸道呢，有钱也没什么了不起呀。我印象中的暴发户，就是除了有钱，什么也没有的那种。他们大建豪宅，大肆挥霍，却没有什么精神实质和生活格调，即便有钱，也被称作“不入流”的一族。
āi ，zhèxiē bàofāhù zěnme zhème bàdào ne ，yǒuqián yě méi shénme liǎobuqǐ yā 。wǒ yìnxiàng zhōng de bàofāhù ，jiùshì chúle yǒuqián ，shénme yě méiyǒu de nàzhǒng 。tāmen dàjiàn háozhái ，dàsì huīhuò ，què méiyǒu shénme jīngshén shízhì hé shēnghuó gédiào ，jíbiàn yǒuqián ，yě bèi chēngzuò “bùrùliú ”de yīzú 。
Ah, how can these nouveaux riches be so high-handed? There's nothing great about having money. It seems to me that these New Money guys are the kind who have nothing but their cash. They build McMansions, and throw their money around, but they don't have much in the way of spirit or lifestyle. Even though they have money, they're still called ''arrivistes."
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