对照
duì zhào
Pinyin

Definition

对照
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duì zhào
  1. to contrast
  2. to compare
  3. to place side by side for comparison (as parallel texts)
  4. to check

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

照片
zhào piàn
  1. 1 photograph
  2. 2 picture
  3. 3 CL:張|张[zhāng],套[tào],幅[fú]
合照
hé zhào
  1. 1 to pose for a photo
写照
xiě zhào
  1. 1 portrayal
拍照
pāi zhào
  1. 1 to take a picture
按照
àn zhào
  1. 1 according to
  2. 2 in accordance with
  3. 3 in the light of
  4. 4 on the basis of
日照
Rì zhào
  1. 1 Rizhao prefecture level city in Shandong
普照
pǔ zhào
  1. 1 (of the sunlight) to bathe all things
  2. 2 to shine gloriously
照
zhào
  1. 1 variant of 照[zhào]
  2. 2 to shine
  3. 3 to illuminate
照亮
zhào liàng
  1. 1 to illuminate
  2. 2 to light up
  3. 3 lighting
照常
zhào cháng
  1. 1 as usual
照明
zhào míng
  1. 1 lighting
  2. 2 illumination
照样
zhào yàng
  1. 1 as before
  2. 2 (same) as usual
  3. 3 in the same manner
  4. 4 still
  5. 5 nevertheless
照相
zhào xiàng
  1. 1 to take a photograph
照耀
zhào yào
  1. 1 to shine
  2. 2 to illuminate
照顾
zhào gu
  1. 1 to take care of
  2. 2 to show consideration
  3. 3 to attend to
  4. 4 to look after
护照
hù zhào
  1. 1 passport
  2. 2 CL:本[běn],個|个[gè]
关照
guān zhào
  1. 1 to take care
  2. 2 to keep an eye on
  3. 3 to look after
  4. 4 to tell
  5. 5 to remind
驾照
jià zhào
  1. 1 driver's license
仿照
fǎng zhào
  1. 1 to imitate
依照
yī zhào
  1. 1 according to
  2. 2 in light of

Idioms (6)

予以照顾
yǔ yǐ zhào gù
  1. 1 to ask sb to carefully consider a request (idiom)
照葫芦画瓢
zhào hú lu huà piáo
  1. 1 lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to copy slavishly
照猫画虎
zhào māo huà hǔ
  1. 1 lit. drawing a tiger using a cat as a model (idiom); fig. to follow a model and get things more or less right but without capturing the spirit of the subject
  2. 2 uninspired imitation
福星高照
fú xīng gāo zhào
  1. 1 lucky star in the ascendant (idiom); a lucky sign
肝胆相照
gān dǎn xiāng zhào
  1. 1 to treat one another with absolute sincerity (idiom); to show total devotion
阳光普照
yáng guāng pǔ zhào
  1. 1 (idiom) sunlight shines over all things
  2. 2 drenched in sunlight

Sample Sentences

听起来真累！怪不得你都得强迫症了，每天买中英文两份报纸，把相同的新闻对照看一遍。
tīng qǐlai zhēn lèi ！guàibude nǐ dōu dé qiǎngpòzhèng le ，měitiān mǎi Zhōng Yīng wén liǎng fēn bàozhǐ ，bǎ xiāngtóng de xīnwén duìzhào kàn yī biàn 。
It does sound painstaking! No wonder you've got an obsessive compulsive disorder -- every day you get both the Chinese and English newspaper and read the same story in both languages.
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