鞭炮
biān pào
Pinyin
Definition
鞭炮
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- firecrackers
- string of small firecrackers
- CL:枚[méi]
Character Decomposition
Idioms (11)
一炮打响
- 1 to win instant success (idiom)
- 2 to start off successfully
一炮而红
- 1 to win instant success (idiom)
- 2 to become an instant hit
丢轮扯炮
- 1 lose a wheel, tear at the gun (idiom); flustered and confused in a panic
如法炮制
- 1 lit. to follow the recipe (idiom)
- 2 fig. to follow a set pattern
快马加鞭
- 1 to spur the horse to full speed (idiom)
- 2 to go as fast as possible
Sample Sentences
鞭炮
firecrackers
放鞭炮
to set off firecrackers
爷爷,为什么过年要放鞭炮,贴对联?
Grandpa, why do we set off fireworks and put poems on our doorways over New Year's?
从那以后,每年除夕都要贴红对联,放鞭炮,初一出去拜年。
After that, every year on New Year's Eve everyone would always put up red poems, set off fireworks and on New Year's Day they'd go out to make New Year's greetings.
原来是这样。爷爷,我们去放鞭炮吧!
So that's how it is. Grandpa, let's go set off fireworks!
谁说的?你不是很喜欢放鞭炮吗?
Says who? Don't you love setting off firecrackers?
大姐,您鞭炮买了没?我这儿有高升,还有一千响的,两千响的鞭炮。初五早晨放吧。
Miss, have you bought fireworks yet? I have the kind that shoot up and explode and I also have strings of one thousand and two thousand firecrackers. You can light them off on the morning of the 5th.
行,鞭炮给您打七折。对了,大姐,您这像请回去,怎么放知道吗?
OK. I'll give you a 30% discount on the firecrackers. That's right. Miss, do you know how to set up the statue you're taking back?
鞭炮。
Firecrackers.
那我可以看你点鞭炮吗?
Then can I watch you light the firecrackers?