沙尘暴
shā chén bào
Pinyin

Definition

沙尘暴
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shā chén bào
  1. sand and dust storm

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

暴
Bào
  1. 1 surname Bao
暴力
bào lì
  1. 1 violence
  2. 2 force
  3. 3 violent
暴君
bào jūn
  1. 1 tyrant
  2. 2 despot
暴躁
bào zào
  1. 1 irascible
  2. 2 irritable
  3. 3 violent
暴露
bào lù
  1. 1 to expose
  2. 2 to reveal
  3. 3 to lay bare
  4. 4 also pr. [pù lù]
沙
Shā
  1. 1 surname Sha
沙场
shā chǎng
  1. 1 sandpit
  2. 2 battleground
  3. 3 battlefield
沙拉
shā lā
  1. 1 salad (loanword)
沙漠
shā mò
  1. 1 desert
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
沙滩
shā tān
  1. 1 beach
  2. 2 sandy shore
  3. 3 CL:片[piàn]
沙发
shā fā
  1. 1 sofa (loanword)
  2. 2 CL:條|条[tiáo],張|张[zhāng]
  3. 3 (Internet slang) the first reply or replier to a forum post
长沙
Cháng shā
  1. 1 Changsha prefecture-level city and capital of Hunan province in south central China
风暴
fēng bào
  1. 1 storm
  2. 2 violent commotion
  3. 3 fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc)
冰沙
bīng shā
  1. 1 slushie
  2. 2 smoothie
  3. 3 crushed ice drink
  4. 4 frappucino
凶暴
xiōng bào
  1. 1 brutal
南沙
Nán shā
  1. 1 Nansha Islands
  2. 2 Spratly Islands
  3. 3 Nansha district of Guangzhou city 廣州市|广州市[Guǎng zhōu shì], Guangdong
家暴
jiā bào
  1. 1 domestic violence
  2. 2 abbr. for 家庭暴力[jiā tíng bào lì]
尖沙咀
Jiān shā zuǐ
  1. 1 Tsim Sha Tsui, urbanized area in Hong Kong
川沙
Chuān shā
  1. 1 Chuansha, name of street and park in Pudong New District 浦東新區|浦东新区[Pǔ dōng xīn qū], Shanghai
强暴
qiáng bào
  1. 1 violent
  2. 2 to rape

Idioms (18)

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
一盘散沙
yī pán sǎn shā
  1. 1 lit. like a sheet of loose sand
  2. 2 fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
不畏强暴
bù wèi qiáng bào
  1. 1 not to submit to force (idiom); to defy threats and violence
含沙射影
hán shā shè yǐng
  1. 1 to attack someone by innuendo (idiom)
  2. 2 to make oblique charges
  3. 3 to make insinuations
  4. 4 to insinuate
封沙育林
fēng shā yù lín
  1. 1 to plant trees in order to stabilize sand (idiom)
恒河沙数
Héng hé shā shù
  1. 1 countless as the grains of sand in the Ganges (idiom)
战死沙场
zhàn sǐ shā chǎng
  1. 1 to die in battle (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)
沙盘推演
shā pán tuī yǎn
  1. 1 to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom)
  2. 2 to rehearse a planned action or activity
  3. 3 to conduct a dry run
泥沙俱下
ní shā jù xià
  1. 1 mud and sand flow together (idiom)
  2. 2 good and bad mingle
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
眼里容不得沙子
yǎn lǐ róng bu dé shā zi
  1. 1 can't bear having grit in one's eye (idiom)
  2. 2 unable to put sth objectionable out of one's mind
  3. 3 not prepared to turn a blind eye
聚沙成塔
jù shā chéng tǎ
  1. 1 sand grains accumulate to make a tower a tower (idiom); by gathering small amounts one gets a huge quantity
  2. 2 many a mickle makes a muckle
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

Sample Sentences

沙尘暴，听上去就很恐怖。
shāchénbào ，tīngshàngqù jiù hěn kǒngbù 。
Sandstorms? Just the sound of it is horrible.
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最近雨水少，气候干燥。而且，我们这边靠近蒙古南部的戈壁地区，所以到了春末夏初，经常会有沙尘天气，有时还会有沙尘暴呢。
zuìjìn yǔ shuǐ shǎo ，qìhòu gānzào 。érqiě ，wǒmen zhèbiān kàojìn Ménggǔ nánbù de gēbì dìqū ，suǒyǐ dào le chūn mò xià chū ，jīngcháng huì yǒu shāchén tiānqì ，yǒushí hái huì yǒu shāchénbào ne 。
These days there isn't much rainfall and the climate is dry. Also, up here, we're right against the area of the Gobi Desert in the southern part of Mongolia, so at the end of spring and beginning of summer, there's often sand dust in the air. Sometimes there are even sandstorms.
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You're still way too relaxed about this. Can you be saying that you want to breathe filthy air all day, blowing dust devils, and drinking dirty water from the Yangtze River? You should know that 70% of the lakes in China are already polluted, and the trend for ecological protection in those lakes is extremely serious...
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