黑白
hēi bái
Pinyin

Definition

黑白
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hēi bái
  1. black and white
  2. right and wrong
  3. monochrome

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

明白
míng bai
  1. 1 clear
  2. 2 obvious
  3. 3 unequivocal
  4. 4 to understand
  5. 5 to realize
白
Bái
  1. 1 surname Bai
白天
bái tiān
  1. 1 daytime
  2. 2 during the day
  3. 3 day
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
白羊座
Bái yáng zuò
  1. 1 Aries (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
白色
bái sè
  1. 1 white
  2. 2 fig. reactionary
  3. 3 anti-communist

Idioms (20)

一条路走到黑
yī tiáo lù zǒu dào hēi
  1. 1 lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to stick to one's ways
  3. 3 to cling to one's course
一清二白
yī qīng èr bái
  1. 1 perfectly clean
  2. 2 blameless
  3. 3 unimpeachable (idiom)
不分皂白
bù fēn zào bái
  1. 1 not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not to distinguish between right and wrong
不分青红皂白
bù fēn qīng hóng zào bái
  1. 1 not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom)
  2. 2 not to distinguish between right and wrong
不问青红皂白
bù wèn qīng hóng zào bái
  1. 1 not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom)
  2. 2 not to distinguish between right and wrong

Sample Sentences

这一眨眼，矛头就转啦？怎么又成我是坏人了，好好好，是非黑白都是你说了算，清官难断家务事啊，夫妻劝和这事啊，我可再也不掺和了。
zhè yī zhǎ yǎn ，máotóu jiù zhuǎn la ？zěnme yòu chéng wǒ shì huàirén le ，hǎohǎohǎo ，shì fēi hēibái dōu shì nǐ shuō le suàn ，qīngguān nán duàn jiāwù shì ā ，fūqī quànhé zhè shì ā ，wǒ kě zàiyě bù chānhuo le 。
So in the blink of an eye, the attack has shifted? How have I become the baddie again? OK, OK, OK, you're the purveyor of all that is right and wrong. Even a government official finds it hard to put his own house in order, so I'll opt out of giving advice to man and wife from now on.
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我觉得事情没有这么黑白分明的，当然希腊的财政体质不好，再加上政府隐匿公债数字，假造数据，使得金融海啸之后整个情况一发不可收拾。
wǒ juéde shìqing méiyǒu zhème hēibáifēnmíng de ，dāngrán xīlà de cáizhèng tǐzhì bù hǎo ，zài jiāshang zhèngfǔ yǐnnì gōngzhài shùzì ，jiǎzào shùjù ，shǐde jīnróng hǎixiào zhīhòu zhěnggè qíngkuàng yīfābù kěshōushi 。
I think it's not as black and white as all that. Of course, Greek's financial system is bad and the government was hiding the amount of public debt and faking figures, leading to the entire situation after the global financial crisis to snowball.
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嗯，我们的孩子从小的观念就是要认真听讲，老师问的问题也都是黑白分明、在书本上找得到正确答案的。所以中国学生的思维不够活跃，也缺乏独立性。
ng4 ，wǒmen de háizi cóngxiǎo de guānniàn jiùshì yào rènzhēn tīngjiǎng ，lǎoshī wèn de wèntí yě dōu shì hēibáifēnmíng 、zài shūběn shàng zhǎodedào zhèngquè dá àn de 。suǒyǐ Zhōngguó xuésheng de sīwéi bùgòu huóyuè ，yě quēfá dúlìxìng 。
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