暴风雪
bào fēng xuě
Pinyin

Definition

暴风雪
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bào fēng xuě
  1. snowstorm
  2. blizzard
  3. CL:場|场[cháng]

Related Words (20)

xià xuě
  1. 1 to snow
Xuě
  1. 1 surname Xue
xuě huā
  1. 1 snowflake
bīng xuě
  1. 1 ice and snow
xiōng bào
  1. 1 brutal
Dà xuě
  1. 1 Daxue or Great Snow, 21st of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 7th-21st December
Xiǎo xuě
  1. 1 Xiaoxue or Lesser Snow, 20th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 22nd November-6th December
Bào
  1. 1 surname Bao
bào lì
  1. 1 violence
  2. 2 force
  3. 3 violent
bào jūn
  1. 1 tyrant
  2. 2 despot
bào tú
  1. 1 bandit
  2. 2 thug
  3. 3 ruffian
bào shài
  1. 1 (of the sun) to scorch
  2. 2 to expose to a scorching sun
bào zhǎng
  1. 1 to increase sharply
  2. 2 to rise dramatically
bào fā hù
  1. 1 newly rich
  2. 2 parvenu
  3. 3 upstart
bào diē
  1. 1 (economics) to slump
  2. 2 steep fall (in value etc)
bào zào
  1. 1 irascible
  2. 2 irritable
  3. 3 violent
bào yǔ
  1. 1 torrential rain
  2. 2 rainstorm
  3. 3 CL:場|场[cháng],陣|阵[zhèn]
bào lù
  1. 1 to expose
  2. 2 to reveal
  3. 3 to lay bare
  4. 4 also pr. [pù lù]
bào fēng
  1. 1 storm wind
  2. 2 storm (force 11 wind)
bào fēng yǔ
  1. 1 rainstorm
  2. 2 storm
  3. 3 tempest

Idioms (20)

一暴十寒
yī pù shí hán
  1. 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
  2. 2 sporadic effort
  3. 3 short attention span
不畏强暴
bù wèi qiáng bào
  1. 1 not to submit to force (idiom); to defy threats and violence
冰雪聪明
bīng xuě cōng ming
  1. 1 exceptionally intelligent (idiom)
各人自扫门前雪,莫管他家瓦上霜
gè rén zì sǎo mén qián xuě , mò guǎn tā jiā wǎ shàng shuāng
  1. 1 sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roof (idiom)
报仇雪耻
bào chóu xuě chǐ
  1. 1 to take revenge and erase humiliation (idiom)
报仇雪恨
bào chóu xuě hèn
  1. 1 to take revenge and wipe out a grudge (idiom)
暴虎冯河
bào hǔ píng hé
  1. 1 lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to display foolhardy courage
横征暴敛
héng zhēng bào liǎn
  1. 1 to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force
横正暴敛
héng zhèng bào liǎn
  1. 1 to levy exorbitant taxes (idiom)
狂风暴雨
kuáng fēng bào yǔ
  1. 1 howling wind and torrential rain (idiom)
  2. 2 (fig.) difficult, dangerous situation
狂饮暴食
kuáng yǐn bào shí
  1. 1 drunken gluttony (idiom); eating and drinking to excess
程门立雪
Chéng mén lì xuě
  1. 1 lit. the snow piles up at Cheng Yi's door (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. deep reverence for one's master
聚萤映雪
jù yíng yìng xuě
  1. 1 lit. to collect fireflies and study by their light (idiom); fig. ambitious student from impoverished background
  2. 2 burning the midnight oil
脸红筋暴
liǎn hóng jīn bào
  1. 1 red and tense with anger (idiom)
除暴安良
chú bào ān liáng
  1. 1 to root out the strong and give people peace (idiom); to rob the rich and give to the poor
雪上加霜
xuě shàng jiā shuāng
  1. 1 to add hail to snow (idiom); one disaster on top of another
  2. 2 to make things worse in a bad situation
雪中送炭
xuě zhōng sòng tàn
  1. 1 lit. to send charcoal in snowy weather (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to provide help in sb's hour of need
雪泥鸿爪
xuě ní hóng zhǎo
  1. 1 a goose's footprint in the snow
  2. 2 vestiges of the past (idiom)
  3. 3 the fleeting nature of human life (idiom)
风花雪月
fēng huā xuě yuè
  1. 1 wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substance
  2. 2 love affair
  3. 3 romance is in the air
  4. 4 dissipated life
鹅毛大雪
é máo dà xuě
  1. 1 goose feather snow (idiom)
  2. 2 big heavy snow fall

Sample Sentences

你们看到新闻没有?暴风雪来袭,外面积雪已经好几尺深了,政府宣布明天停班停课。
nǐmen kàndào xīnwén méiyǒu ?bàofēngxuě lái xí ,wàimian jīxuě yǐjīng hǎojǐ chǐ shēn le ,zhèngfǔ xuānbù míngtiān tíng bān tíng kè 。
Have you seen the news? The snowstorm strikes! The snow is meters deep outside. The government has announced that there will be no school or work tomorrow.
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外面暴风雪,我们在这里闲扯淡,去把暖炉弄热点吧。
wàimian bàofēngxuě ,wǒmen zài zhèlǐ xiánchědàn ,qù bǎ nuǎnlú nòng rèdiǎn ba 。
There's a snowstorm raging outside, and we're in here talking nonsense. Let's heat up the stove a little.
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唉!不知道暴风雪会持续多久,想想那些连炭炉都没有的穷苦人家,这下又不知道要冻死多少人了。
ài !bù zhīdào bàofēngxuě huì chíxù duō jiǔ ,xiǎngxiang nàxiē lián tànlú dōu méiyǒu de qióngkǔ rénjiā ,zhèxià yòu bù zhīdào yào dòng sǐ duōshao rén le 。
(Sigh) I wonder how long this snowstorm will last. If you think of all those poor people that can't even afford coal, you wonder how many people are going to freeze to death this time.
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