麒麟
qí lín
Pinyin

Definition

麒麟
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qí lín
  1. qilin (mythical Chinese animal)
  2. kylin
  3. Chinese unicorn
  4. commonly mistranslated as giraffe

Character Decomposition

Related Words (5)

qí lín
  1. 1 qilin (mythical Chinese animal)
  2. 2 kylin
  3. 3 Chinese unicorn
  4. 4 commonly mistranslated as giraffe
Tán Yǒng lín
  1. 1 Alan Tam (1950-), Hong Kong Canto-pop singer and actor
fèng máo lín jiǎo
  1. 1 lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. few and far between
lín
  1. 1 variant: 麟 lín
Lín yóu
  1. 1 Linyou County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡[Bǎo jī], Shaanxi

Idioms (2)

凤毛麟角
fèng máo lín jiǎo
  1. 1 lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. few and far between
麟角凤觜
lín jiǎo fèng zuǐ
  1. 1 lit. qilin's horn, phoenix's mouth (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. rara avis
  3. 3 rarity

Sample Sentences

麒麟人,你快把我爸爸和斯琴的哥哥,还有你们囚禁的所有的人都放了!要不然别怪我不客气!
qílínrén ,nǐ kuài bǎ wǒ bàba hé Sīqín de gēge ,háiyǒu nǐmen qiújìn de suǒyǒu de rén dōu to release le !yàoburán bié guài wǒ bù kèqì !
Kirin-people, hurry up and release my Dad and Siqin's big brother, and everyone else you've imprisoned! Otherwise, it's no more Mister Nice Guy!
你们这些缺少思想和灵魂的人类,连机器人都不如。麒麟国不需要你们肮脏的思想来污染我们!
nǐmen zhèxiē quēshǎo sīxiǎng hé línghún de rénlèi ,lián jīqìrén dōu bùrú 。qílínguó bù xūyào nǐmen āngzāng de sīxiǎng lái wūrǎn wǒmen !
You humans lack thought and a soul. You're not even as good as robots! Kirinland doesn't need your filthy thinking to come here and pollute us!
麒麟人,你休想把我们也变成机器人!
qílínrén ,nǐ xiūxiǎng bǎ wǒmen yě biànchéng jīqìrén !
Kirin-man, don't even think of trying to turn us into robots!
我编写了一套可以摧毁麒麟人防御系统的程序。如果你有办法潜入控制室,那我们就有希望逃出去了。但是这里部署了大量士兵,太危险了!
wǒ biānxiě le yītào kěyǐ cuīhuǐ qílínrén fángyù xìtǒng de chéngxù 。rúguǒ nǐ yǒu bànfǎ qiánrù kòngzhì shì ,nà wǒmen jiù yǒu xīwàng táo chūqù le 。dànshì zhèlǐ bùshǔ le dàliàng shìbīng ,tài wēixiǎn le !
I wrote a program that could destroy the Kirin-people's defense system. If you get a chance to slip into the Control Room, we'll have a chance of escaping. But they've stationed a lot of soldiers here. It's too dangerous!
糟了!麒麟人!
zāo le !qílínrén !
Damn! Kirin-men!
该死的麒麟人,我要把你们碎尸万段!
gāisǐ de qílínrén ,wǒ yào bǎ nǐmen suìshīwànduàn !
Damned Kirin-men! I'm going to tear you into little pieces!
很有可能。他们的大脑肯定是被植入了电脑芯片!麒麟人已经把他们变成自己的奴隶了。天哪!斯琴,那我爸爸和你哥哥大概就在这些人中间。太可怜了!怎么办? 
hěn yǒu kěnéng 。tāmen de dànǎo kěndìng shì bèi zhírù le diànnǎo xìnpiàn !qílínrén yǐjīng bǎ tāmen biànchéng zìjǐ de núlì le 。tiānnǎ !Sīqín ,nà wǒ bàba hé nǐ gēge dàgài jiù zài zhèxiērén zhōngjiān 。tài kělián le !zěnme bàn ? 
It's very possible. They've definitely had computer chips implanted in their brains! The Kirin-men have turned them into their slaves. Oh, man! Siqin, my dad and your brother must be with these people. What a shame! What can we do?
没想到那么容易就躲过了麒麟士兵的监视,看来他们的警惕性并不高。
méixiǎngdào nàme róngyì jiù duǒguò le qílínshìbīng de jiānshì ,kànlai tāmen de jǐngtìxìng bìng bù gāo 。
I had no idea it would be so easy to sneak past the Kirin soldiers' surveillance. Looks like they're not really very alert.
算你问到点子上了。麒麟人正在研究怎么储存思想。所以,他们才会抓人来做实验。
suàn nǐ wèndào diǎnzi shang le 。qílínrén zhèngzài yánjiū zěnme chǔcún sīxiǎng 。suǒyǐ ,tāmen cái huì zhuā rén lái zuò shíyàn 。
Your question cuts right to the heart of the matter. Right now, the Kirin-people are researching how to store their minds. That's the only reason they're grabbing people to experiment on.
你连这都不知道啊?他们是麒麟和人共生的后代,头上都长着犄角。为了能永生,他们在死前把身体冷冻起来,将来再解冻,重获新生。
nǐ lián zhè dōu bù zhīdào a ?tāmen shì qílín hé rén gòngshēng de hòudài ,tóu shàng dōu zhǎng zhe jījiǎo 。wèile néng yǒngshēng ,tāmen zài sǐ qián bǎ shēntǐ lěngdòng qǐlai ,jiānglái zài jiědòng ,chónghuò xīnshēng 。
You don't even know this? They're the result of symbiosis between humans and Kirin. They have a horn on their forehead. To live forever, they freeze their bodies before they die. When they're thawed in the future, they get to live again!