# translation

lexentry: eng/lampshade__Noun__1
written_rep: lampshade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 灯罩
sense_list:
A cover over a lamp to either diffuse the light or to block it in certain directions to avoid glare in the eyes.


lexentry: eng/lance__Verb__1
written_rep: lance
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 矛
sense_list:
(medicine) Prick or cut open with a sharp instrument. | Pierce with or as if with a lance. | Move suddenly and quickly


lexentry: eng/land__Noun__1
written_rep: land
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 土地
sense_list:
The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water. | Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected. | (agriculture) Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing. | In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.


lexentry: eng/landau__Noun__1
written_rep: landau
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 婴儿车
sense_list:
A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.


lexentry: eng/landline__Noun__1
written_rep: landline
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 座机电话
sense_list:
(by extension) A telephone connected by such a fixed wire that allows multiple phones to operate simultaneously on the same phone number, specifically not wireless/mobile.


lexentry: eng/landlord__Noun__1
written_rep: landlord
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 东
sense_list:
A person that leases real property; a lessor. | (chiefly, British) The owner or manager of a public house. | (surfing, slang, with "the") A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.


lexentry: eng/landscape__Noun__1
written_rep: landscape
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 风景
sense_list:
A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features. | The pictorial aspect of a country.


lexentry: eng/landslide__Noun__1
written_rep: landslide
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 滑坡
sense_list:
A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.


lexentry: eng/lane__Noun__1
written_rep: lane
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 路
sense_list:
A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles. | (athletics) A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.


lexentry: eng/language__Noun__1
written_rep: language
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 语言 | 語言
sense_list:
(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication. | (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words. | (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field. | (countable, uncountable, figurative) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does. | (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language. | (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.


lexentry: eng/languid__Adjective__1
written_rep: languid
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 酸软
sense_list:
Of a person or their actions, character, etc.: lacking drive, emotion, or enthusiasm; apathetic, listless, spiritless, unenthusiastic.


lexentry: eng/languish__Verb__1
written_rep: languish
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 死
sense_list:
(intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/lanolin__Noun__1
written_rep: lanolin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 羊毛脂
sense_list:
A greasy yellow substance chemically akin to wax that is secreted from wooly animals, with a variety of uses from rust prevention, lubrication and waterproofing to cosmetics and skin ointments.


lexentry: eng/lantern__Noun__1
written_rep: lantern
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 灯
sense_list:
(architectural element) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior. | (architecture) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light. | (steam engines) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.


lexentry: eng/lantern_wheel__Noun__1
written_rep: lantern wheel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 灯笼
sense_list:
A pinion with cylindrical staves, instead of teeth, inserted at their ends in two parallel disks or plates.


lexentry: eng/lanthanide__Noun__1
written_rep: lanthanide
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 镧系元素
sense_list:
(chemistry) Any of the 15 rare earth elements from lanthanum to lutetium in the periodic table; because their outermost orbitals are not filled, they have very similar chemistry; below them are the actinides.


lexentry: eng/lanthanum__Noun__1
written_rep: lanthanum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 镧
sense_list:
(uncountable) A chemical element (symbol La) with an atomic number of 57: a soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes slowly when exposed to air.


lexentry: eng/lap__Noun__1
written_rep: lap
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 懷
sense_list:
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered. | The upper legs of a seated person.


lexentry: eng/laparoscopy__Noun__1
written_rep: laparoscopy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 腹腔鏡手術
sense_list:
(medicine) Examination of the loins or abdomen, now specifically examination or surgery on the peritoneal cavity using a laparoscope.


lexentry: eng/lapel__Noun__1
written_rep: lapel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 翻领
sense_list:
Each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on the front of a jacket or coat that are folded back below the throat, leaving a triangular opening between.


lexentry: eng/lapwing__Noun__1
written_rep: lapwing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 田凫
sense_list:
Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.


lexentry: eng/larceny__Noun__1
written_rep: larceny
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 盗窃
sense_list:
(legal, uncountable) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently. [from mid-15th c.]


lexentry: eng/larva__Noun__1
written_rep: larva
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 幼虫
sense_list:
An animal in the aforementioned stage. | (figurative) A preliminary stage of someone or something, before it has fully matured, especially a time of growth rather than one of performance.


lexentry: eng/larynx__Noun__1
written_rep: larynx
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 喉 | 喉頭
sense_list:
(anatomy, zootomy) A hollow muscular organ of the neck of mammals situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the oesophagus. It is involved in breath control and protection of the trachea, and, as it houses the vocal cords, sound production.


lexentry: eng/lassie__Noun__1
written_rep: lassie
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 女孩
sense_list:
(chiefly, Scotland, Northern England, Geordie, Northumbria) A young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart.


lexentry: eng/last_but_not_least__Adverb__1
written_rep: last but not least
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 最后但同样重要的是
sense_list:
An expression to start the last item of a list, emphasising that while it is listed last, it is just as important as the rest of the items.


lexentry: eng/last_straw__Noun__1
written_rep: last straw
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 压垮骆驼的最后一根稻草
sense_list:
(idiomatic, almost always preceded by the) A small addition to an already heavy burden which causes it to exceed the capacity.


lexentry: eng/latch__Noun__1
written_rep: latch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 门扣
sense_list:
A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.


lexentry: eng/latch__Noun__1
written_rep: latch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 触发器
sense_list:
(electronics) An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.


lexentry: eng/late__Adjective__1
written_rep: late
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: 先
sense_list:
(not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.)


lexentry: eng/later__Adverb__1
written_rep: later
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 更晚
sense_list:
(Manglish, Singlish) What if (something problematic or unanticipated happens); if not (something undesirable will happen).


lexentry: eng/lathe__Noun__2
written_rep: lathe
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 車床
sense_list:
(tools, metalworking, woodworking) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.


lexentry: eng/lather__Noun__1
written_rep: lather
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 泡沫
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water. | (countable, uncountable) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.


lexentry: eng/latitude__Noun__1
written_rep: latitude
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 纬度
sense_list:
(geography, astronomy, countable) The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point. | (geography) An imaginary line (in the form of a circumference) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator. | (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.


lexentry: eng/latter__Adjective__1
written_rep: latter
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 后者
sense_list:
Relating to or being the second of two items. | Near (or nearer) to the end. | In the past, but close (or closer) to the present time.


lexentry: eng/lattice__Noun__1
written_rep: lattice
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 网
sense_list:
(crystallography) A regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif.


lexentry: eng/laugh__Verb__1
written_rep: laugh
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 笑
sense_list:
(intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. | (intransitive, followed by "at") To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.


lexentry: eng/laughter__Noun__1
written_rep: laughter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 笑
sense_list:
A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.


lexentry: eng/launch__Verb__1
written_rep: launch
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 執行
sense_list:
(transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation


lexentry: eng/laundry__Noun__1
written_rep: laundry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 洗衣店
sense_list:
A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.


lexentry: eng/laundry_basket__Noun__1
written_rep: laundry basket
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 垃圾桶
sense_list:
A container, often made of plastic, for holding and transporting clothing and household textiles, especially before and after being laundered.


lexentry: eng/laurel__Noun__1
written_rep: laurel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 月桂树
sense_list:
An evergreen shrub of species Laurus nobilis, having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.


lexentry: eng/lava__Noun__1
written_rep: lava
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 熔岩
sense_list:
The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides; magma that has breached the surface of the earth.


lexentry: eng/law__Noun__1
written_rep: law
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 法律
sense_list:
(usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities. | Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)


lexentry: eng/law_of_the_jungle__Noun__1
written_rep: law of the jungle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 強權即公理
sense_list:
(figurative) A putative law dictating that one serves one's own interest to the extent that one can, in any situation where legal authority is absent or generally ignored; self-interested behaviour that emerges in the absence of law; lawlessness.


lexentry: eng/lawnmower__Noun__1
written_rep: lawnmower
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 割草机
sense_list:
A device used for cutting grass to a chosen height, typically of landscaped lawns of residences or institutions.


lexentry: eng/lawsuit__Noun__1
written_rep: lawsuit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: [[#
sense_list:
(legal) In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution.


lexentry: eng/lawyer__Noun__1
written_rep: lawyer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 律師
sense_list:
A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law as an attorney-at-law, solicitor, advocate, barrister or equivalent, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.


lexentry: eng/lay__Adjective__1
written_rep: lay
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 世俗的
sense_list:
Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them. | Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.


lexentry: eng/lay_down__Verb__1
written_rep: lay down
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: 上床
sense_list:
To sacrifice, especially in the phrase "to lay down one's life." | (intransitive, proscribed) To lie down.


lexentry: eng/lay_off__Verb__1
written_rep: lay off
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 放下
sense_list:
(transitive, and, intransitive, idiomatic) To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone.


lexentry: eng/layer__Noun__1
written_rep: layer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 借译
sense_list:
(computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.


lexentry: eng/layman__Noun__1
written_rep: layman
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 世俗的
sense_list:
Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy. | (by extension) Someone who is not a professional in a given field.


lexentry: eng/layoff__Noun__1
written_rep: layoff
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 裁員
sense_list:
(chiefly, US) A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).


lexentry: eng/layout__Noun__1
written_rep: layout
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 地图
sense_list:
(engineering) A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.


lexentry: eng/layperson__Noun__1
written_rep: layperson
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 世俗的
sense_list:
A person who is not a cleric. | One who is not intimately familiar with a given subject or activity.


lexentry: eng/lazy_Susan__Noun__1
written_rep: lazy Susan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 餐桌轉盤
sense_list:
A rotating tray (turntable) used on tables and counters for serving condiments or food. | A rotating set of shelves used to minimize inaccessible space, usually employed in corner kitchen cabinets. | (finance) .


lexentry: eng/lead__Noun__1
written_rep: lead
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 铅 | 鉛
sense_list:
(uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum). | (slang) Bullets; ammunition.


lexentry: eng/lead__Verb__1
written_rep: lead
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 铅 | 鉛
sense_list:
(transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead. | (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.


lexentry: eng/leaf__Noun__1
written_rep: leaf
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 叶子 | 葉
sense_list:
(publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf). | (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants. | (programming, x86) A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.


lexentry: eng/leaf_node__Noun__1
written_rep: leaf node
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 叶子
sense_list:
(botany) One of the spots upon a stem where buds and intercalary meristems occur, usually marking the end of a season's growth. | (comptheory) A node, in a tree, that has no children.


lexentry: eng/league__Noun__1
written_rep: league
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 会
sense_list:
A group or association of cooperating members. | (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.


lexentry: eng/lean__Adjective__1
written_rep: lean
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 瘦
sense_list:
(of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy. | Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.


lexentry: eng/lean__Verb__1
written_rep: lean
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 支持
sense_list:
(Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.


lexentry: eng/leap_year__Noun__1
written_rep: leap year
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 闰年
sense_list:
A year in the Julian or Gregorian calendar with an intercalary day added to February (in the Gregorian calendar, February 29), used to adjust for the extra hours of the solar year; a 366-day year.


lexentry: eng/learn__Verb__1
written_rep: learn
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 学
sense_list:
To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something. | To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.


lexentry: eng/lease__Verb__1
written_rep: lease
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 出租
sense_list:
(transitive, formal, law) To grant a lease as a landlord; to let. | (computing, transitive) To assign a temporary IP address to (a networked device).


lexentry: eng/least_common_multiple__Noun__1
written_rep: least common multiple
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 最小公倍数
sense_list:
(number theory) The smallest positive integer which is divisible by (equivalently, is an integer multiple of) each of a specified finite set of integers.


lexentry: eng/least_weasel__Noun__1
written_rep: least weasel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 伶鼬
sense_list:
The common weasel, little weasel, or simply weasel (Mustela nivalis), the smallest member of the weasel genus Mustela, native to Eurasia, North America, and North Africa.


lexentry: eng/leather__Noun__1
written_rep: leather
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 皮革
sense_list:
A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing; often denotes leather from cattle when no qualifier specifies otherwise.


lexentry: eng/leatherette__Noun__1
written_rep: leatherette
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 人造革
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable, also, attributively) A type of fabric, often plastic, made to imitate the appearance of leather.


lexentry: eng/leave__Verb__1
written_rep: leave
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 留
sense_list:
(transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely. | (transitive) To transfer possession of after death.


lexentry: eng/leave_no_stone_unturned__Verb__1
written_rep: leave no stone unturned
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 石
sense_list:
(idiom) To search or investigate thoroughly. | (figuratively) To perform a task carefully and thoroughly, not missing any step.


lexentry: eng/lede__Noun__2
written_rep: lede
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 入口
sense_list:
(chiefly, US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article; the lead or lead-in. [from mid 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/ledge__Noun__1
written_rep: ledge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 壁帶
sense_list:
(geology) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks. | A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.


lexentry: eng/leek__Noun__1
written_rep: leek
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 韭葱
sense_list:
A vegetable of variety Allium ampeloprasum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.


lexentry: eng/leer__Verb__1
written_rep: leer
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 盯
sense_list:
(intransitive) To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent.


lexentry: eng/left-handed__Adjective__1
written_rep: left-handed
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: 惯用左手的
sense_list:
(occult, of magic) Performed with the intention of doing harm or in transgression against convention or taboo; following the left-hand path


lexentry: eng/left__Adjective__1
written_rep: left
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 左
sense_list:
Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←


lexentry: eng/left_fielder__Noun__1
written_rep: left fielder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 左外野手
sense_list:
(baseball) The outfield defensive player that stands to the left of the center fielder as viewed from home plate.


lexentry: eng/leg_up__Noun__1
written_rep: leg up
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 搭人梯
sense_list:
The act of assisting another's progress over a wall or other obstacle by forming a step for one of their feet with one's hands.


lexentry: eng/legal_person__Noun__1
written_rep: legal person
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 法人
sense_list:
(legal) An aggregate of people, legal entity, or body corporate who have (some of) the legal rights and responsibilities of a natural person under the law.


lexentry: eng/legend__Noun__1
written_rep: legend
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 传奇 | 传说
sense_list:
A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events. | A person of extraordinary fame or accomplishments.


lexentry: eng/legion__Noun__1
written_rep: legion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 军团
sense_list:
(military, Ancient Rome) The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.


lexentry: eng/legumin__Noun__1
written_rep: legumin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 豆素
sense_list:
(biochemistry, organic compound) Any of a group of globulins, resembling casein, found mostly in legumes and grains.


lexentry: eng/lemma__Noun__1
written_rep: lemma
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 入口
sense_list:
(psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.


lexentry: eng/lemming__Noun__1
written_rep: lemming
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 学生
sense_list:
(figuratively) Any member of a group given to conformity or groupthink, especially a group poised to follow a leader off a cliff.


lexentry: eng/lemon_balm__Noun__1
written_rep: lemon balm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 蜜蜂花
sense_list:
A perennial herb, of species Melissa officinalis, of southern Europe; used as a flavouring in ice cream etc.


lexentry: eng/lemonade__Noun__1
written_rep: lemonade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 檸檬水
sense_list:
(US, Canada, India, Philippines) A flavoured beverage consisting of water, lemon, and sweetener, sometimes ice, served mainly as a refreshment.


lexentry: eng/lemonade__Noun__1
written_rep: lemonade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 柠檬水
sense_list:
(UK, AU, NZ) A clear, usually carbonated, beverage made from lemon or artificial lemon flavouring, water, and sugar.


lexentry: eng/lemongrass__Noun__1
written_rep: lemongrass
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 香茅
sense_list:
One of various species of grass of the genus Cymbopogon, especially Cymbopogon citratus, which have a lemon-like taste and aroma, and are used in cooking, for tea, and for fragrance.


lexentry: eng/lend__Verb__1
written_rep: lend
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 借
sense_list:
(transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.


lexentry: eng/lens__Noun__1
written_rep: lens
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 透镜
sense_list:
(optics) An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.


lexentry: eng/lens__Noun__1
written_rep: lens
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 鏡
sense_list:
A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams. | (geometry) A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune. | (biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.


lexentry: eng/lentil__Noun__1
written_rep: lentil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鏡
sense_list:
Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.


lexentry: eng/leonine__Adjective__1
written_rep: leonine
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 狮子
sense_list:
(pathology) Of a facies: resembling those of a lion as a result of some disease, especially a form of leprosy which causes leontiasis; also, of leprosy: causing a lionlike facies.


lexentry: eng/leopard__Noun__1
written_rep: leopard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 豹
sense_list:
Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).


lexentry: eng/leotard__Noun__1
written_rep: leotard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 緊身衣
sense_list:
A one-piece skintight garment with or without sleeves and without legs (often worn by gymnasts, acrobats, wrestlers, female swimmers, etc.)


lexentry: eng/leper_colony__Noun__1
written_rep: leper colony
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 麻風村
sense_list:
An isolated community used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.


lexentry: eng/leprosy__Noun__1
written_rep: leprosy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 麻瘋病
sense_list:
(disease, medicine) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantining its sufferers.


lexentry: eng/lepton__Noun__2
written_rep: lepton
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 輕子
sense_list:
(particle physics) An elementary particle that has a spin of 1/2 (i.e., is a fermion) and does not interact via the strong nuclear force; examples include the electron, the muon, the neutrino and the tauon.


lexentry: eng/lesion__Noun__1
written_rep: lesion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 病灶
sense_list:
(medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.


lexentry: eng/lesson__Noun__1
written_rep: lesson
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 课
sense_list:
A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. | Something learned or to be learned. | Something that serves as a warning or encouragement. | A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.


lexentry: eng/let's__Verb__1
written_rep: let's
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 使
sense_list:
Used to form the cohortative of verbs, equivalent of the first-person plural imperative in some other languages.


lexentry: eng/let's_go__Phrase__1
written_rep: let's go
part_of_speech: phraseologicalUnit
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 加油
sense_list:
Hortative of go, particularly as a cheer expressing encouragement. | (colloquial) Hurry up; be quick.


lexentry: eng/let__Verb__1
written_rep: let
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 允許
sense_list:
(transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to). | (transitive) To allow to be or do without interference; to not disturb or meddle with; to leave alone. | (transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).


lexentry: eng/let_go__Verb__1
written_rep: let go
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 放
sense_list:
(intransitive, with of, and, transitive, with object before go) To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.


lexentry: eng/let_it_be__Verb__1
written_rep: let it be
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 交给
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To leave something to follow its natural course; this involves desisting from any intent to intervene.


lexentry: eng/letter_carrier__Noun__1
written_rep: letter carrier
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 郵適員
sense_list:
An employee of the post office who delivers mail (post) to, and collects it from, a residence or business, or from public mailboxes.


lexentry: eng/letter_of_marque__Noun__1
written_rep: letter of marque
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 私掠許可證
sense_list:
(nautical, historical) An official commission from a government authorizing someone to seize the property or people of another nation; especially to attack merchant shipping of another nation.


lexentry: eng/letterbox__Noun__1
written_rep: letterbox
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 信箱
sense_list:
A collection point for mail intended for onward delivery, a secure box or receptacle for this purpose.


lexentry: eng/leukemia__Noun__1
written_rep: leukemia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 白血病
sense_list:
(oncology, pathology) Any of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.


lexentry: eng/leukocyte__Noun__1
written_rep: leukocyte
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 白血球
sense_list:
(hematology, cytology, immunology) Any of a class of blood cells that play various roles in cell-mediated immunity.


lexentry: eng/level__Noun__1
written_rep: level
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 关卡
sense_list:
A distance relative to a given reference elevation. | Degree or amount. | (role-playing games, video games) A numeric value given to a character (or other element of a game) that represents its relative power, challenge or eligibility to do things, used as a game mechanic to govern progression through a game.


lexentry: eng/level_crossing__Noun__1
written_rep: level crossing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 平交道
sense_list:
(chiefly, British) An at-grade crossing between a railway line and an ordinary road, with rails and road at the same level.


lexentry: eng/leverage__Verb__1
written_rep: leverage
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 享受
sense_list:
(transitive, chiefly, US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).


lexentry: eng/lexeme__Noun__1
written_rep: lexeme
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 词位
sense_list:
(linguistics) A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form.


lexentry: eng/lexical_category__Noun__1
written_rep: lexical category
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 词性 cí xìng
sense_list:
(linguistics) A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as nouns or verbs.


lexentry: eng/lexical_item__Noun__1
written_rep: lexical item
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 词项
sense_list:
(semantics) A term (that is, a word or sequence of words) that acts as a unit of meaning, including words, phrases, phrasal verbs and proverbs; exemplified by cat, traffic light, take care of, by-the-way, and don't count your chickens before they hatch.


lexentry: eng/lexicography__Noun__1
written_rep: lexicography
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 辭書學
sense_list:
(uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries. | (uncountable, linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.


lexentry: eng/lexicology__Noun__1
written_rep: lexicology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 詞彙學
sense_list:
(uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.


lexentry: eng/lexicon__Noun__1
written_rep: lexicon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 词典
sense_list:
(lexicography, linguistics) A dictionary that includes or focuses on lexemes. | A dictionary of Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Aramaic. | The vocabulary used by or known to an individual. (Also called lexical knowledge.)


lexentry: eng/li__Noun__1
written_rep: li
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: Lǐ
sense_list:
The Chinese mile, a traditional unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).


lexentry: eng/libation__Noun__1
written_rep: libation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 奠
sense_list:
The act of pouring a liquid, most often wine, in sacrifice on the ground, on a ritual object, or on a victim, in honor of some deity. | The wine or liquid thus poured out.


lexentry: eng/liberal__Adjective__1
written_rep: liberal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: 大方的
sense_list:
(politics) Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical or modern liberalism.


lexentry: eng/liberalism__Noun__1
written_rep: liberalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 自由主义
sense_list:
(politics) Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed. | (economics) An economic ideology in favour of laissez faire and the free market (related to economic liberalism).


lexentry: eng/libertarianism__Noun__1
written_rep: libertarianism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 自由意志主義
sense_list:
(economics, philosophy, politics) A political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives, and should be free to do whatever they wish with their persons or property, provided they allow others that same liberty.


lexentry: eng/libertine__Noun__2
written_rep: libertine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 醉态
sense_list:
Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.


lexentry: eng/libido__Noun__1
written_rep: libido
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 性冲动
sense_list:
(common usage) Sexual urges or drives. | (psychology) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.


lexentry: eng/librarian__Noun__1
written_rep: librarian
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 图书管理员
sense_list:
The keeper, manager of a library. | One who cares for the publications, files etc. in a library, whether staff or volunteer.


lexentry: eng/library__Noun__1
written_rep: library
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 图书馆 | 圖書館
sense_list:
An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users. | A collection of books or other forms of stored information.


lexentry: eng/library__Noun__1
written_rep: library
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: 图书馆
sense_list:
(genetics) A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease. | (card games, Magic: The Gathering) The deck or draw pile.


lexentry: eng/libre__Adjective__1
written_rep: libre
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 自由
sense_list:
(software) With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge. [from late 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/license__Noun__1
written_rep: license
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 許可證
sense_list:
A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit. | Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech). | Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.


lexentry: eng/license_plate__Noun__1
written_rep: license plate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 匾
sense_list:
An identifying tag, usually made of metal, bearing a sequence of letters or numbers identifying the vehicle, and placed at the rear and, often, also at the front of a motor vehicle.


lexentry: eng/lichen__Noun__1
written_rep: lichen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 地衣
sense_list:
Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow-to-blue–green patches on rocks, old walls, etc.


lexentry: eng/lickspittle__Verb__1
written_rep: lickspittle
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 巴儿狗
sense_list:
(transitive, and, intransitive) To play the toady; take the role of a lickspittle to please (someone).


lexentry: eng/licorice__Noun__1
written_rep: licorice
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 光果甘草
sense_list:
(countable) A plant of species Glycyrrhiza glabra, or sometimes in North America, the related American licorice plant Glycyrrhiza lepidota.


lexentry: eng/licorice__Noun__1
written_rep: licorice
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 濃縮甘草
sense_list:
(uncountable, chemistry) A flavoring agent made from dried root portions of the aforementioned plant.


lexentry: eng/lieutenant__Adjective__1
written_rep: lieutenant
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中尉
sense_list:
A military grade that is junior to the grade the adjective modifies: lieutenant colonel, lieutenant general, lieutenant commander.


lexentry: eng/lieutenant__Noun__1
written_rep: lieutenant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中尉
sense_list:
(military) The lowest junior commissioned officer rank(s) in many military forces, often Army and Marines. | A person who manages or executes the plans and directives of another, more senior person; a manager to their director.


lexentry: eng/lieutenant_colonel__Noun__1
written_rep: lieutenant colonel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 中校
sense_list:
An English-language term used as a general categorization for military officer ranks that are the equivalent of lieutenant colonel, the relative rank level is found in most countries.


lexentry: eng/lieutenant_junior_grade__Noun__1
written_rep: lieutenant junior grade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中尉
sense_list:
A commissioned officer of the United States Navy whose rank is above an ensign's and below a lieutenant, or a corresponding rank in other navies.


lexentry: eng/life__Noun__1
written_rep: life
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 生命 | 生活
sense_list:
(uncountable) The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living. | A worthwhile existence. | The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.


lexentry: eng/life__Noun__1
written_rep: life
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 生命
sense_list:
Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc. | Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it. | (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.


lexentry: eng/life_belt__Noun__1
written_rep: life belt
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 救生圈
sense_list:
A buoyant ring carried on board ships that can be thrown to someone in the water in an emergency to keep themselves afloat.


lexentry: eng/life_insurance__Noun__1
written_rep: life insurance
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 人寿保险‎ 人壽保險
sense_list:
A form of insurance on the life of a person, whereby if the person dies then the insurance policy pays out a sum of money to the beneficiary (such as a person's family).


lexentry: eng/life_jacket__Noun__1
written_rep: life jacket
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 救生衣
sense_list:
an article of protective clothing that is designed to keep the wearer's head floating above the surface of the water.


lexentry: eng/lift__Noun__1
written_rep: lift
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 電梯
sense_list:
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, puristic, _, elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.


lexentry: eng/liftoff__Noun__1
written_rep: liftoff
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 起飞
sense_list:
(aerospace) The point in the launch of a rocket or an aircraft where it leaves contact with the ground.


lexentry: eng/ligature__Noun__1
written_rep: ligature
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 符杠
sense_list:
(countable, typography) A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ĳ; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.


lexentry: eng/light-emitting_diode__Noun__1
written_rep: light-emitting diode
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 发光二极管
sense_list:
(physics) A rectifying semiconductor device which converts electrical energy into electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength in or near the visible spectrum of light.


lexentry: eng/light__Adjective__2
written_rep: light
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 輕 | 轻
sense_list:
(nautical, of a ship) Riding high because of no cargo; by extension, pertaining to a ship which is light. | Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.


lexentry: eng/light__Noun__1
written_rep: light
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 光
sense_list:
(physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers); visible light. | (countable) A source of illumination. | (figurative) Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.


lexentry: eng/light_bulb__Noun__1
written_rep: light bulb
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 電燈泡
sense_list:
An evacuated glass bulb containing a metal filament which is heated by electrical resistance to produce light.


lexentry: eng/light_bulb__Noun__1
written_rep: light bulb
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 灯
sense_list:
(by extension) An article that resembles such a bulb and converts electricity to light by any process.


lexentry: eng/light_switch__Noun__1
written_rep: light switch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 开关
sense_list:
A switch, usually mounted on a wall in a building, used to turn the light or another appliance such as a fan on and off.


lexentry: eng/light_year__Noun__1
written_rep: light year
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 光年
sense_list:
(astronomy) A unit of length (abbreviation ly; equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres (1016 metres)) equal to the distance light travels in one Julian year; used to measure extremely large distances.


lexentry: eng/lighter__Noun__1
written_rep: lighter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 打火机
sense_list:
A device used to light things, especially a reusable handheld device for creating fire to light cigarettes.


lexentry: eng/lightning__Noun__1
written_rep: lightning
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 闪电
sense_list:
A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.


lexentry: eng/lightning_rod__Noun__1
written_rep: lightning rod
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 避雷针
sense_list:
A metallic conductor that is attached to a high point of a building and leads to the ground to protect the building from damage by lightning.


lexentry: eng/like__Verb__1
written_rep: like
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 喜欢
sense_list:
To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for. | (obsolete) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).


lexentry: eng/like_that__Prepositional_phrase__1
written_rep: like that
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 这样
sense_list:
(adjectival) Of the same, a similar, that particular kind. | (adverbial) In such, the same, a similar way, in that particular manner


lexentry: eng/like_turkeys_voting_for_Christmas__Phrase__1
written_rep: like turkeys voting for Christmas
part_of_speech: phraseologicalUnit
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 搬起石头砸自己的脚
sense_list:
(Britain, simile, humorous, of an action) Self-defeating; serving to bring about a situation detrimental to the performer of the action. [from 1977]


lexentry: eng/likelihood__Noun__1
written_rep: likelihood
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 概率
sense_list:
The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable.


lexentry: eng/liken__Verb__1
written_rep: liken
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 比喻
sense_list:
Followed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare.


lexentry: eng/lily__Noun__1
written_rep: lily
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鳶尾花
sense_list:
Any of several flowers in the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae, which includes a great many ornamental species.


lexentry: eng/limb__Noun__2
written_rep: limb
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 叶片
sense_list:
(astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body. | (on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.


lexentry: eng/lime__Noun__1
written_rep: lime
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 石灰
sense_list:
(chemistry) Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).


lexentry: eng/limestone__Noun__1
written_rep: limestone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 石灰岩
sense_list:
An abundant rock of marine and freshwater sediments; primarily composed of calcite (CaCO3); and occurring in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous.


lexentry: eng/limit__Noun__1
written_rep: limit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 极限
sense_list:
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. | (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).


lexentry: eng/limit__Verb__1
written_rep: limit
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 限制
sense_list:
(transitive) To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.


lexentry: eng/limitation__Noun__1
written_rep: limitation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 限制
sense_list:
The act of limiting or the state of being limited. | An imperfection or shortcoming that limits something's use or value.


lexentry: eng/limnology__Noun__1
written_rep: limnology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 湖沼學
sense_list:
(ecology) The science concerning the biological, physical and geological properties of fresh water bodies, especially lakes and ponds.


lexentry: eng/linchpin__Noun__1
written_rep: linchpin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 脚腕
sense_list:
A pin inserted through holes at the end of an axle or shaft, so as to secure a wheel or shaft-mounted device.


lexentry: eng/line__Noun__1
written_rep: line
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 直线
sense_list:
(geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.


lexentry: eng/line_of_business__Noun__1
written_rep: line of business
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 枝
sense_list:
A product or a set of related products that serve a particular customer transaction or business need.


lexentry: eng/lineage__Noun__1
written_rep: lineage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 性
sense_list:
Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.


lexentry: eng/linear__Adjective__1
written_rep: linear
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 线性
sense_list:
Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course. | Of or relating to lines. | (mathematics) (of polynomials or polynomial equations) | (physics) A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).


lexentry: eng/linear_algebra__Noun__1
written_rep: linear algebra
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 线性代数
sense_list:
(mathematics) The branch of mathematics that deals with vectors, vector spaces, linear transformations and systems of linear equations.


lexentry: eng/linen__Noun__1
written_rep: linen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 服装
sense_list:
(countable) Domestic textiles, such as tablecloths, bedding, towels, underclothes, etc., that are made of linen or linen-like fabrics of cotton or other fibers; linens. | A light beige colour, like that of linen cloth undyed.


lexentry: eng/linger__Verb__1
written_rep: linger
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 住
sense_list:
(intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.


lexentry: eng/lingua_franca__Noun__1
written_rep: lingua franca
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 舌
sense_list:
A common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar, particularly, one that is not the first language of any of its speakers.


lexentry: eng/link__Verb__1
written_rep: link
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 扎
sense_list:
(transitive) To connect (two or more things). | (intransitive, Internet, of a web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.


lexentry: eng/linnet__Noun__1
written_rep: linnet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 赤胸朱顶雀
sense_list:
A small passerine bird, the common linnet (Linaria cannabina, syn. Carduelis cannabina), in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa.


lexentry: eng/linoleic_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: linoleic acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 亚油酸
sense_list:
(fatty acid) a polyunsaturated fatty acid, having 18 carbon atoms and two double bonds, essential for human nutrition; it is found in linseed, sunflower and other vegetable oils


lexentry: eng/linoleum__Noun__1
written_rep: linoleum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 油布
sense_list:
An inexpensive waterproof covering used especially for floors, made from solidified linseed oil over a burlap or canvas backing, or from its modern replacement, polyvinyl chloride.


lexentry: eng/lintel__Noun__1
written_rep: lintel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 结构楣
sense_list:
(architectural element) A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.


lexentry: eng/lion__Noun__1
written_rep: lion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 狮子 | 獅子
sense_list:
(in particular) A male lion, as opposed to a lioness, which is characterized by having a flowing shaggy mane and taking little part in hunting, which can be done cooperatively.


lexentry: eng/lip__Noun__1
written_rep: lip
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 嘴唇
sense_list:
(countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia. | (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.


lexentry: eng/lip_sync__Noun__1
written_rep: lip sync
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 假唱
sense_list:
(music, singing) The synchronization of prerecorded audio signals and movement of the lips such that there is no lack of simultaneity between them.


lexentry: eng/lipid__Noun__1
written_rep: lipid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 脂類
sense_list:
(organic compound) Any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water, and account for most of the fat present in the human body.


lexentry: eng/liquefied_natural_gas__Noun__1
written_rep: liquefied natural gas
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 液化天然气
sense_list:
(petrochemistry) Natural gas that has been cooled and compressed to liquid form for transport and storage.


lexentry: eng/liquefied_petroleum_gas__Noun__1
written_rep: liquefied petroleum gas
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 液化石油气
sense_list:
(petrochemistry) A mixture of propane and butane with traces of some other gases, which is kept in a liquid state at high pressure in metal bottles, and used as a source of gas for cooking, heating and as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.


lexentry: eng/liquid__Noun__1
written_rep: liquid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 液體
sense_list:
(physical chemistry) A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.


lexentry: eng/liquid_crystal__Noun__1
written_rep: liquid crystal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 液晶
sense_list:
(chemistry, physics) A phase of matter similar to a liquid, in which the molecules are arranged regularly in one or two dimensions.


lexentry: eng/liquor__Noun__1
written_rep: liquor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 烈酒
sense_list:
(chiefly, US, Canada, Australia) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation; more broadly, any alcoholic drink.


lexentry: eng/list__Noun__1
written_rep: list
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 單子
sense_list:
A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth. | (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.


lexentry: eng/list__Noun__1
written_rep: list
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 名单
sense_list:
A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself. [from 1600]


lexentry: eng/list__Noun__1
written_rep: list
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 比武场
sense_list:
(in the plural, historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.


lexentry: eng/list__Noun__4
written_rep: list
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 歪位
sense_list:
(nautical) A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power. [from early 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/list__Verb__1
written_rep: list
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 换
sense_list:
(transitive) To create or recite a list. | (transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.


lexentry: eng/list__Verb__3
written_rep: list
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 喜欢
sense_list:
(transitive, archaic) To desire, like, or wish (to do something). | (transitive, archaic) To be pleasing to.


lexentry: eng/listen__Verb__1
written_rep: listen
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 听 | 聽
sense_list:
(intransitive, _, except in archaic usage) To use one's sense of hearing and auditory cognition in an intentional way; to make deliberate use of one's ears; to pay attention to or wait for a specific sound.


lexentry: eng/listenership__Noun__1
written_rep: listenership
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 听众
sense_list:
The audience that listens to a certain form or genre of audio material (specifically (Internet, radio) , an audio broadcast such as a radio program or a podcast).


lexentry: eng/lite__Adjective__1
written_rep: lite
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 光
sense_list:
Light in composition, notably low in fat, calories etc. Most commonly used commercially. | Lightweight


lexentry: eng/literal__Adjective__1
written_rep: literal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 文字的
sense_list:
Exactly as stated; read or understood without interpretation; according to the letter; not figurative or metaphorical; following the letter or exact words; not taking liberties; etymonic rather than idiomatic.


lexentry: eng/literal__Noun__1
written_rep: literal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 文字的
sense_list:
(programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.


lexentry: eng/literally__Adverb__1
written_rep: literally
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 按照字面
sense_list:
With phrasings that might normally be used or understood as figurative: truly; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.


lexentry: eng/literature__Noun__1
written_rep: literature
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 文学
sense_list:
The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture. | (usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.


lexentry: eng/lithium__Noun__1
written_rep: lithium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 锂 | 鋰
sense_list:
(uncountable) The simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3 and atomic weight of 6.94. It is a soft, silvery metal.


lexentry: eng/lithography__Noun__1
written_rep: lithography
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 平版印刷
sense_list:
The process of printing an image by drawing the image with a water-repellent material onto a hard, flat surface (typically metal), then copying the surface by applying water and ink (or the equivalent) to it and pressing another material against it. [from 1813]


lexentry: eng/lithosphere__Noun__1
written_rep: lithosphere
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 岩石圈
sense_list:
(geology) The rigid, mechanically strong, outer layer of the Earth; divided into twelve major plates.


lexentry: eng/lithotripsy__Noun__1
written_rep: lithotripsy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 碎石術
sense_list:
(surgery) A treatment, typically using ultrasound shock waves or crushing with a surgical instrument, by which a kidney stone or similar calculus is broken into particles small enough to be voided or washed out.


lexentry: eng/litmus__Noun__1
written_rep: litmus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 石蕊
sense_list:
(uncountable) A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens, that changes color when exposed to pH levels greater than or less than certain critical levels.


lexentry: eng/litter__Noun__1
written_rep: litter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 稻草
sense_list:
(uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals. [1325]


lexentry: eng/litter__Noun__1
written_rep: litter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 垃圾
sense_list:
(countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs. [1330s] | (medical, countable) Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.


lexentry: eng/litter_box__Noun__1
written_rep: litter box
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 貓砂盆
sense_list:
A box used to provide a soiling area for (usually) pet cats, generally filled with kitty litter, sand, clay chips, etc.


lexentry: eng/little__Adjective__1
written_rep: little
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 小
sense_list:
Small in size. | Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals. | Insignificant, trivial. | Very young, of childhood age. | (of a sibling) Younger. | Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.


lexentry: eng/little_boy__Noun__1
written_rep: little boy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 小
sense_list:
A male child, especially one younger than ten years of age. | (AU, NZ) A small saveloy often consumed with tomato sauce at parties, also known as a cocktail sausage or a cheerio.


lexentry: eng/livelihood__Noun__1
written_rep: livelihood
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 生计
sense_list:
A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income). [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/liver__Noun__1
written_rep: liver
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 肝脏 | 肝臟
sense_list:
(anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.


lexentry: eng/living__Noun__1
written_rep: living
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 寿命
sense_list:
(uncountable) The state of being alive. | Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood | A style of life.


lexentry: eng/living_fossil__Noun__1
written_rep: living fossil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 活化石
sense_list:
(evolutionary theory) Any species discovered first as a fossil and believed extinct, but which is later found living; an organism that has remained unchanged over geological periods. [from 1859]


lexentry: eng/llama__Noun__1
written_rep: llama
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 喇嘛
sense_list:
A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.


lexentry: eng/load__Noun__1
written_rep: load
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 装载
sense_list:
A burden; a weight to be carried. | A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.


lexentry: eng/load__Verb__1
written_rep: load
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 裝
sense_list:
(transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage). | (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition. | (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory. | (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.


lexentry: eng/loader__Noun__1
written_rep: loader
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 充电器
sense_list:
; a person or device that loads. | (computing) A program that prepares other programs for execution.


lexentry: eng/loam__Noun__1
written_rep: loam
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 壤土
sense_list:
(geology) A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.


lexentry: eng/loan__Noun__1
written_rep: loan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 貸款
sense_list:
(law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).


lexentry: eng/lobe__Noun__1
written_rep: lobe
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 舌
sense_list:
Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]


lexentry: eng/lobster__Noun__1
written_rep: lobster
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 龙虾
sense_list:
A slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae). | Various other crustaceans that resemble true lobsters:


lexentry: eng/local__Adjective__1
written_rep: local
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 地方
sense_list:
(computing, of a resource) Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline. | (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program. | (algebra, algebraic geometry, of a property P of a ring R (or an R-module M)) Such that the following conditions are equivalent: (1) P holds for R (M); (2) P holds for the localization R_\mathfrak{p} (M_\mathfrak{p}) for all prime ideals \mathfrak{p} of R; (3) P holds for the localization R_\mathfrak{m} (M_\mathfrak{m}) for all maximal ideals \mathfrak{m} of R. | (group theory, of a property of a finite group) Detectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.


lexentry: eng/locale__Noun__1
written_rep: locale
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 語言
sense_list:
(computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.


lexentry: eng/lock__Noun__1
written_rep: lock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 船閘
sense_list:
A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.


lexentry: eng/lock__Noun__1
written_rep: lock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: 锁 | 船閘
sense_list:
A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.


lexentry: eng/lock_down__Verb__1
written_rep: lock down
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 关
sense_list:
To blockade and lock (e.g. a building or campus) so as to prevent ingress or egress; to make the occupants (of an area) stay locked indoors for their safety.


lexentry: eng/lockdown__Noun__1
written_rep: lockdown
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 行动限制
sense_list:
The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.


lexentry: eng/locker__Noun__1
written_rep: locker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 櫥櫃
sense_list:
A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store personal possessions for public use, such as in schools, railway stations, place of work, gyms, sports centers. | A storage compartment on a ship, not necessarily one that can be locked.


lexentry: eng/lockjaw__Noun__1
written_rep: lockjaw
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 破伤风
sense_list:
(pathology) A spasmodic, nervous system disease brought on by the tetanus bacteria, causing muscles to seize up and may cause death by suffocation.


lexentry: eng/locust__Noun__1
written_rep: locust
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 蚱蜢
sense_list:
Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/lodge__Noun__1
written_rep: lodge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 球門
sense_list:
Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.


lexentry: eng/log__Noun__1
written_rep: log
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 测程仪
sense_list:
(nautical) A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.


lexentry: eng/log_in__Verb__1
written_rep: log in
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 登录
sense_list:
(computing, transitive, intransitive) To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.


lexentry: eng/log_out__Verb__1
written_rep: log out
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 下线
sense_list:
(computing) To exit a user account in a computer system, so that one is not recognized until signing in again.


lexentry: eng/logarithm__Noun__1
written_rep: logarithm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 对数
sense_list:
(mathematics) For a number x, the exponent by which a given base number must be raised in order to obtain the power x. Written \log_b x. For example, \log_{10} 1000 = 3 because 10^3 = 1000 and \log_2 16 = 4 because 2^4 = 16.


lexentry: eng/logic__Noun__1
written_rep: logic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 逻辑
sense_list:
(uncountable) A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.


lexentry: eng/logic__Noun__1
written_rep: logic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 邏輯
sense_list:
(uncountable, mathematics) The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements. | (countable) Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person. | (countable, sociology) A system of thought or collection of rhetoric, especially one associated with a social practice.


lexentry: eng/login__Noun__1
written_rep: login
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 用戶名
sense_list:
(computing) Credentials: the combination of a user's identification and password used to enter a computer, program, network, etc.


lexentry: eng/logistics__Noun__1
written_rep: logistics
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 物流管理
sense_list:
(operations) The process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services and related information from their point of origin to point of consumption for the purpose of satisfying customer requirements. | (military) The procurement, supply, maintenance, and transportation of equipment, facilities, and personnel.


lexentry: eng/logopedics__Noun__1
written_rep: logopedics
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 言語治療
sense_list:
The study, and correction, of speech and language defects, disorders in communication and swallowing disorders.


lexentry: eng/logotype__Noun__1
written_rep: logotype
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 标识
sense_list:
A symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of an institution or other entity, usually referred to as a logo.


lexentry: eng/lolicon__Noun__1
written_rep: lolicon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 蘿莉塔情結
sense_list:
(uncountable, Japanese fiction) Attraction (often erotic) to young, typically prepubescent girls, or the fictional depictions thereof.


lexentry: eng/lone_wolf__Noun__1
written_rep: lone wolf
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 獨狼
sense_list:
(metaphorically) A person who avoids the company of others; a loner; an independent or solitary person.


lexentry: eng/loneliness__Noun__1
written_rep: loneliness
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 孤独
sense_list:
A feeling of depression resulting from being alone or from having no companions. | The condition or state of being alone or having no companions.


lexentry: eng/long-distance__Adjective__1
written_rep: long-distance
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 远
sense_list:
Referring to a nonlocal telephone call; a toll call. | Referring to a romantic relationship: between two people with a considerable distance between them.


lexentry: eng/long-tailed_tit__Noun__1
written_rep: long-tailed tit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 银喉长尾山雀
sense_list:
Any of many subspecies of small passerine birds with long tails, Aegithalos caudatus, found throughout Europe and Asia


lexentry: eng/long_jump__Noun__1
written_rep: long jump
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 跳遠
sense_list:
An athletics field event where competitors attempt to jump as far as possible, after taking a run-up; a jump such as one performed in such an event.


lexentry: eng/long_pepper__Noun__1
written_rep: long pepper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 蓽拔
sense_list:
The flowering vine Piper longum in the genus Piper (pepper) of family Piperaceae, cultivated for its characteristically long fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning.


lexentry: eng/long_ton__Noun__1
written_rep: long ton
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 長噸
sense_list:
(chiefly, _, historical) A traditional unit of mass equal to 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each, equivalent to approximately 1016 kilograms.


lexentry: eng/long_weekend__Noun__1
written_rep: long weekend
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 桥
sense_list:
A weekend extended by one or more days off falling on a day or days immediately preceding or following it.


lexentry: eng/longbow__Noun__1
written_rep: longbow
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 弓
sense_list:
A large bow that has a strong tension, and is usually more than 3 feet tall. The most famous longbows in history were the English longbows, which were crafted of yew.


lexentry: eng/loofah__Noun__1
written_rep: loofah
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 丝瓜
sense_list:
Any of several tropical vines of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd.


lexentry: eng/look_up__Verb__1
written_rep: look up
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 搜索
sense_list:
(transitive, idiomatic) To obtain, or seek to obtain, information about something. | To obtain information about something from a reference book.


lexentry: eng/look_up_to__Verb__1
written_rep: look up to
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 仰慕 | 崇拜 | 敬仰 | 钦佩
sense_list:
(idiomatic, transitive) To show respect or admiration for (someone); to see (someone) as a role model.


lexentry: eng/loom__Noun__1
written_rep: loom
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 织布机
sense_list:
A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.


lexentry: eng/loon__Noun__2
written_rep: loon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 普通潜鸟
sense_list:
(US, Canada) Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry.


lexentry: eng/loop__Noun__1
written_rep: loop
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: 循环
sense_list:
(programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.


lexentry: eng/loose__Adjective__1
written_rep: loose
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鬆動
sense_list:
Not fixed in place tightly or firmly. | Not compact. | (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.


lexentry: eng/loot_box__Noun__1
written_rep: loot box
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 虛擬抽獎
sense_list:
(video gaming) A consumable virtual item, often in the shape of a box or another container, that gives a player a random selection of in-game items.


lexentry: eng/looting__Noun__1
written_rep: looting
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 掠夺
sense_list:
The act of stealing during a crisis such as a war, riot or natural disaster, when law enforcement is ineffective or absent.


lexentry: eng/loquat__Noun__1
written_rep: loquat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 枇杷
sense_list:
The fruit of this tree. It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds.


lexentry: eng/lord__Noun__1
written_rep: lord
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 东
sense_list:
(archaic) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession | (obsolete) The master of the servants of a household; (historical) the master of a feudal manor


lexentry: eng/lord__Noun__1
written_rep: lord
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 领主
sense_list:
One possessing similar mastery over others; (historical) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility (the equivalent rank in England is baron)


lexentry: eng/lordship__Noun__1
written_rep: lordship
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 先生
sense_list:
(hence, with "his" or "your", often capitalised) Title applied to a lord, bishop, judge, or another man with a title.


lexentry: eng/lose__Verb__1
written_rep: lose
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 掉
sense_list:
(transitive) To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability. | (transitive) To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).


lexentry: eng/lose__Verb__1
written_rep: lose
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 輸掉了
sense_list:
(transitive) To become a defeated competitor in (a game, competition, trial, etc). | (intransitive) To be defeated (in a game, competition, contest, etc.)


lexentry: eng/lose_face__Verb__1
written_rep: lose face
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 丢面子
sense_list:
(idiomatic, intransitive) To lose the respect of others; to be humiliated or experience public disgrace.


lexentry: eng/loss__Noun__1
written_rep: loss
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: 估量
sense_list:
(uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.


lexentry: eng/lot__Noun__1
written_rep: lot
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: 命
sense_list:
That which happens without human design or forethought. | Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will. | The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.


lexentry: eng/lottery__Noun__1
written_rep: lottery
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 抽奖
sense_list:
A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.


lexentry: eng/louse__Noun__1
written_rep: louse
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 蝨毛目
sense_list:
(colloquial, dated, not usually used in plural form) A contemptible person; one who is deceitful or causes harm.


lexentry: eng/louver__Noun__1
written_rep: louver
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 百叶窗
sense_list:
A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. [from 14th c.] | (chiefly, _, in plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. [from 16th c.] | Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.


lexentry: eng/lovage__Noun__1
written_rep: lovage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 欧当归
sense_list:
A perennial Mediterranean herb, of species Levisticum officinale, with odor and flavor resembling celery.


lexentry: eng/love__Verb__1
written_rep: love
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 爱 | 愛
sense_list:
(usually, transitive, sometimes, _, intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something). | (usually, transitive, sometimes, _, intransitive) To seek the good or honor of (someone), care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something). | (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).


lexentry: eng/love_child__Noun__1
written_rep: love child
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 私生子
sense_list:
(euphemistic) A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child.


lexentry: eng/love_handle__Noun__1
written_rep: love handle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 救生圈
sense_list:
(colloquial, euphemistic, mostly, in the plural) A protruding area of fat on the side of the body, above the hips.


lexentry: eng/love_hotel__Noun__1
written_rep: love hotel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 汽車旅館
sense_list:
A short-stay hotel found in Japan and elsewhere, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing lovers privacy to have sexual intercourse.


lexentry: eng/lovebird__Noun__1
written_rep: lovebird
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 斑鸠
sense_list:
Any small parrot from one of the nine species within the genus Agapornis. Sometimes they are kept as cage birds and are noted for their affection towards each other. | (metaphorical, usually, in the plural) One of the members of an openly affectionate couple.


lexentry: eng/loved_one__Noun__1
written_rep: loved one
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 女朋友
sense_list:
A very close friend or family member for whom a person has feelings of endearment, one of someone's close ones; sometimes: next of kin (for example on hospital admission form).


lexentry: eng/lover__Noun__1
written_rep: lover
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 戀人
sense_list:
One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse. | A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair. | A person who loves something.


lexentry: eng/low__Adjective__1
written_rep: low
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 16
trans_list: 低
sense_list:
(phonetics) Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.


lexentry: eng/low_blow__Noun__1
written_rep: low blow
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 不公平的事
sense_list:
(boxing) An unfair or illegal blow that lands below the opponent’s waist. | (figurative, by extension) Any attack that is considered unfair or unscrupulous.


lexentry: eng/low_cost_carrier__Noun__1
written_rep: low cost carrier
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 廉價航空
sense_list:
(aviation, travel) An airline that sells very inexpensive tickets but which does not provide (or charges for) typical services like meals or the carriage of baggage.


lexentry: eng/lower__Verb__1
written_rep: lower
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: 下載
sense_list:
(transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc. | (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease


lexentry: eng/lower_back__Noun__1
written_rep: lower back
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 十字
sense_list:
The region of the back above the waist, also known as the lumbar region; the area surrounding the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis.


lexentry: eng/lower_class__Noun__1
written_rep: lower class
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 亚纲
sense_list:
A class of people in a society characterized by low incomes, low level of education, high unemployment and, as a result of these, a low social status.


lexentry: eng/lowest_common_denominator__Noun__1
written_rep: lowest common denominator
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 最小公倍数
sense_list:
(figuratively) The simplest or base shared interest or characteristic among a group or collection of people etc.


lexentry: eng/lox__Noun__1
written_rep: lox
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鮭魚
sense_list:
(US) Salmon that is cured in brine and then smoked at a low temperature so that the flesh remains uncooked.


lexentry: eng/lubrication__Noun__1
written_rep: lubrication
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 润滑
sense_list:
The application of a substance (lubricant) between moving surfaces in contact in order to reduce friction and minimize heating.


lexentry: eng/lug__Verb__1
written_rep: lug
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 闲荡
sense_list:
(transitive, sometimes, figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.


lexentry: eng/luge__Noun__1
written_rep: luge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 无舵雪橇
sense_list:
(countable) A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back. | (uncountable) The sport of racing on luges.


lexentry: eng/lumbago__Noun__1
written_rep: lumbago
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 腰痛
sense_list:
(uncountable) Backache of the lumbar region or lower back, which can be caused by muscle strain or a slipped disc.


lexentry: eng/lumbar__Adjective__1
written_rep: lumbar
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 腰椎
sense_list:
Related to the lower back or loin, specifically the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis.


lexentry: eng/lumbar_puncture__Noun__1
written_rep: lumbar puncture
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 腰椎穿刺
sense_list:
(medical) A diagnostic and at times therapeutic procedure performed to collect a sample of cerebrospinal fluid for biochemical, microbiological, and cytological analysis, or rarely to relieve increased intracranial pressure.


lexentry: eng/lumber__Noun__1
written_rep: lumber
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 木
sense_list:
(North America) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/lumen__Noun__1
written_rep: lumen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 流明
sense_list:
(physics) In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm.


lexentry: eng/luminary__Noun__1
written_rep: luminary
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 光
sense_list:
One who is an inspiration to others; one who has achieved success in one's chosen field; a leading light.


lexentry: eng/lump__Noun__1
written_rep: lump
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 肿大
sense_list:
Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.


lexentry: eng/lump_together__Verb__1
written_rep: lump together
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 接
sense_list:
To put different items or groups together and regard or treat them as one single group (either knowingly or unknowingly, and either advisedly or unadvisedly).


lexentry: eng/lunar__Adjective__1
written_rep: lunar
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: 透石膏
sense_list:
(astronomy) Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.


lexentry: eng/lunula__Noun__1
written_rep: lunula
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 新月形
sense_list:
(anatomy) Something shaped like a crescent or half-moon; especially the pale area at the base of the fingernail.


lexentry: eng/lupus__Noun__1
written_rep: lupus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 狼
sense_list:
(pathology) Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.


lexentry: eng/lure__Noun__1
written_rep: lure
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 誘餌
sense_list:
(also, figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure. | (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.


lexentry: eng/lure__Verb__1
written_rep: lure
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 迷
sense_list:
(transitive) To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile. | (transitive) To attract fish with a lure. | (transitive, falconry) To recall a hawk with a lure.


lexentry: eng/lurk__Verb__1
written_rep: lurk
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 潛水
sense_list:
(Internet slang) To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent.


lexentry: eng/lurker__Noun__1
written_rep: lurker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 潛水
sense_list:
(Internet slang) A user who observes a community rather than participating; someone who reads or takes advantage of content on a website, newsgroup, etc. but does not contribute.


lexentry: eng/luster__Noun__1
written_rep: luster
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 光泽
sense_list:
The ability or condition of shining with reflected light; sheen, gleam, gloss, sparkle, shine, etc. | (figurative) Polish, social refinement. | (obsolete) A glory, an act or thing that imparts fame or renown.


lexentry: eng/lustrum__Noun__1
written_rep: lustrum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 吊灯
sense_list:
(historical) A lustration: a ceremonial purification of the people of Rome performed every five years after the census. [from late 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/lute__Noun__1
written_rep: lute
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 魯特琴
sense_list:
A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.


lexentry: eng/lutetium__Noun__1
written_rep: lutetium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鎦
sense_list:
A chemical element (symbol Lu) with an atomic number of 71, a silvery-white metal which resists corrosion in dry air.


lexentry: eng/lux__Noun__1
written_rep: lux
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 勒克斯
sense_list:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx


lexentry: eng/luxury__Noun__1
written_rep: luxury
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 豪华
sense_list:
Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create. | Something desirable but expensive and that one can live without. | Something that is pleasant and desirable but not necessary in life (whether expensive or not).


lexentry: eng/lye__Noun__1
written_rep: lye
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 碱性
sense_list:
An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes). | Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda).


lexentry: eng/lymph__Noun__1
written_rep: lymph
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 淋巴
sense_list:
(physiology) A colourless, watery, coagulable bodily fluid which bathes the tissues and is carried by the lymphatic system into the bloodstream; it resembles blood plasma in containing white blood cells and especially lymphocytes but normally few red blood cells and no platelets.


lexentry: eng/lymphocyte__Noun__1
written_rep: lymphocyte
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 淋巴细胞
sense_list:
(cytology, immunology) Any of several types of white blood cell with a spherical nucleus occurring in the lymphatic system, including B cells, T cells and natural killer cells.


lexentry: eng/lyre__Noun__1
written_rep: lyre
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 里拉
sense_list:
(string instrument) An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.


lexentry: eng/macaroni__Noun__1
written_rep: macaroni
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 通心粉
sense_list:
(uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes, typically boiled and served in soup, with a sauce, or in melted cheese; a dish of this. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/macaw__Noun__1
written_rep: macaw
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 金刚鹦鹉
sense_list:
Any of various parrots of the genera Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Orthopsittaca, Primolius and Diopsittaca of Central and South America, including the largest parrots and characterized by long sabre-shaped tails, curved powerful bills, and usually brilliant plumage.


lexentry: eng/machination__Noun__1
written_rep: machination
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 詭計
sense_list:
(chiefly, in the plural) A clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes. [from circa 1473]


lexentry: eng/machine__Noun__1
written_rep: machine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 機
sense_list:
A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect. | (historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.


lexentry: eng/machine_code__Noun__1
written_rep: machine code
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 机器码
sense_list:
(computer science) Machine language instructions that can be executed directly by a computer's central processing unit.


lexentry: eng/machine_gun__Noun__1
written_rep: machine gun
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 機槍
sense_list:
A type of fully automatic firearm that fires bullets in rapid succession by a single action of the trigger and is capable of sustained fire.


lexentry: eng/machine_language__Noun__1
written_rep: machine language
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 机器语言
sense_list:
(programming) The set of instructions that a particular computer is designed to execute; generated from an assembly language by an assembler, or from a high-level language by a compiler or interpreter.


lexentry: eng/machine_learning__Noun__1
written_rep: machine learning
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 机器学习
sense_list:
(artificial intelligence) A field of study concerned with the design and development of algorithms and techniques that allow computers to learn.


lexentry: eng/machine_tool__Noun__1
written_rep: machine tool
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 机床 機床
sense_list:
(machining, manufacturing) A tool, typically a power-driven machine and typically stationary, used especially for machining (removing hard material via cutting, grinding, or other subtractive processes) and (more broadly) for any mix of subtractive, forming/stamping, or additive work.


lexentry: eng/machine_translation__Noun__1
written_rep: machine translation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 機器翻譯
sense_list:
(translation studies) The act of translating something from one language to another by means of a machine, especially a computer.


lexentry: eng/machinist__Noun__1
written_rep: machinist
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 工程師
sense_list:
A constructor of machines and engines; someone knowledgeable about machines. | A person skilled in the use of machine tools for fashioning metal parts or tools out of metal.


lexentry: eng/mackerel__Noun__1
written_rep: mackerel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鲭鱼
sense_list:
Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,


lexentry: eng/macroeconomics__Noun__1
written_rep: macroeconomics
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 宏观经济学
sense_list:
The study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices.


lexentry: eng/macrolanguage__Noun__2
written_rep: macrolanguage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 宏语
sense_list:
(linguistics) A "language" by common usage, which is in fact a dialect continuum consisting of widely varying varieties that may be distinct languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility. | (linguistics) A group of mutually intelligible speech varieties that have no traditional name in common, and which may be considered distinct languages by their speakers. | (ISO) A book-keeping device where – when a language as defined under the ISO 639-2 standard developed by the US Library of Congress, for the purpose of encoding the languages that published books are written in, does not correspond to a single language under the ISO 639-3 standard developed by the Summer Institute of Linguistics, for the purpose of listing all the world's languages in their publication Ethnologue – the ISO 639-2 language is assigned an ISO 639-3 code as a "macrolanguage".


lexentry: eng/macromolecule__Noun__1
written_rep: macromolecule
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 高分子
sense_list:
(organic compound, biochemistry) A very large molecule, especially used in reference to large biological polymers (e.g. nucleic acids and proteins).


lexentry: eng/macron__Noun__1
written_rep: macron
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 长音符
sense_list:
(orthography) A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (◌̄) placed over a letter, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/macula__Noun__1
written_rep: macula
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 黃斑
sense_list:
(anatomy) An oval yellow spot near the center of the retina of the human eye, histologically defined as having two or more layers of ganglion cells, responsible for detailed central vision.


lexentry: eng/madrasah__Noun__1
written_rep: madrasah
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 伊斯蘭學校
sense_list:
(Islam) A school for any kind of teaching, at any grade level; usually specifically a school that teaches Islamic theology.


lexentry: eng/magazine__Noun__1
written_rep: magazine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 杂志
sense_list:
A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.


lexentry: eng/magenta__Noun__1
written_rep: magenta
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 洋红色
sense_list:
A color which is close to an equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive secondary color but a subtractive primary color evoked by the combination of red and blue light.


lexentry: eng/maggot__Noun__1
written_rep: maggot
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 幼虫
sense_list:
A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/magic__Noun__1
written_rep: magic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 巫術
sense_list:
(rare, countable) A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell; a magical ability. [from 14th c.] | (entertainment) The art or practice of performing conjuring tricks and illusions to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers.


lexentry: eng/magic__Noun__1
written_rep: magic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 魔法
sense_list:
The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/magic_carpet__Noun__1
written_rep: magic carpet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 飞毯
sense_list:
(fiction) A carpet capable either of magical flight, or instantaneous transport from one place to another, used as a means of travel.


lexentry: eng/magic_square__Noun__1
written_rep: magic square
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 幻方
sense_list:
(number theory) An n-by-n arrangement of n2 numbers such that the numbers in each row, in each column and along both diagonals all have the same sum.


lexentry: eng/magical_girl__Noun__1
written_rep: magical girl
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 魔法少女
sense_list:
In Japanese anime and manga, a young girl with superhuman abilities who is called upon to fight evil.


lexentry: eng/magician__Noun__1
written_rep: magician
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 巫師
sense_list:
A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic. | (sometimes, derogatory) A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts. | A performer of tricks or an escapologist or an illusionist. | An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.


lexentry: eng/magma__Noun__1
written_rep: magma
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 岩漿
sense_list:
(geology) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.


lexentry: eng/magnesite__Noun__1
written_rep: magnesite
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 菱鎂礦
sense_list:
(mineral) A form of magnesium carbonate, MgCO3, occurring as dolomite (with calcite) but rarely found in the pure state.


lexentry: eng/magnesium__Noun__1
written_rep: magnesium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鎂 | 镁
sense_list:
The chemical element with an atomic number of 12. It is a light, easily flammable, silvery-white alkaline earth metal.


lexentry: eng/magnetic_field__Noun__1
written_rep: magnetic field
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 磁场
sense_list:
(physics) A condition in the space around a magnet or electric current in which there is a detectable magnetic force and two magnetic poles are present.


lexentry: eng/magnetic_tape__Noun__1
written_rep: magnetic tape
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 磁带
sense_list:
A type of (usually) acrylic tape with a fine coating of magnetically sensitive material on one side, used for recording audio and other data.


lexentry: eng/magnetosphere__Noun__1
written_rep: magnetosphere
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 磁层
sense_list:
(physics) The comet-shaped region around Earth or another planet in which charged particles are trapped or deflected. Shaped by the solar wind and the planet's magnetic field.


lexentry: eng/magpie-goose__Noun__1
written_rep: magpie-goose
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鹊鹅
sense_list:
A bird of species Anseranas semipalmata, the only non-extinct bird of the family Anseranatidae, resident breeder in northern Australia and southern New Guinea, having black and white plumage and yellowish legs.


lexentry: eng/magus__Noun__1
written_rep: magus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 巫師
sense_list:
A magician; (derogatory) a conjurer or sorcerer, especially one who is a charlatan or trickster. | (Zoroastrianism) A Zoroastrian priest.


lexentry: eng/mahjong__Noun__1
written_rep: mahjong
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 麻将
sense_list:
A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.


lexentry: eng/maid__Noun__1
written_rep: maid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 女佣
sense_list:
(dated, or, poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden. | A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). | (archaic) A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.


lexentry: eng/mail__Noun__1
written_rep: mail
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 郵件
sense_list:
A bag containing letters to be delivered by post. | (chiefly, _, US, uncountable) The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person. [from 19thc.] | (dated) A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.


lexentry: eng/mailman__Noun__1
written_rep: mailman
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 郵適員
sense_list:
(North America) Someone who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.


lexentry: eng/mainland_China__Proper_noun__1
written_rep: mainland China
part_of_speech: properNoun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中国大陆
sense_list:
The People's Republic of China, viewed as the general geographical region administered by the PRC in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War (as opposed to Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan which are coastal and insular areas)


lexentry: eng/mainmast__Noun__1
written_rep: mainmast
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 大
sense_list:
(nautical) The tallest mast of a sailing ship that has more than one mast; particularly a full-rigged ship. | (nautical) The second-foremost mast of a non-sailing ship with more than one mast.


lexentry: eng/mains__Noun__2
written_rep: mains
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 枷
sense_list:
(chiefly, British) The domestic electrical power supply, especially as connected to a network or grid.


lexentry: eng/major__Adjective__1
written_rep: major
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中指
sense_list:
Greater in number, quantity, or extent. | Of full legal age, having attained majority. | (education) Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization. | (postpositive) (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect. | Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval. (of an interval) | Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism. (of a term)


lexentry: eng/major__Noun__1
written_rep: major
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 少校
sense_list:
(military ranks) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.


lexentry: eng/major__Noun__1
written_rep: major
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 方向
sense_list:
(education, North America, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.


lexentry: eng/major_general__Noun__1
written_rep: major general
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 少将
sense_list:
A military officer in the armies of most nations, typically ranking below a lieutenant general and above a brigadier.


lexentry: eng/major_scale__Noun__1
written_rep: major scale
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 自然音阶
sense_list:
(music) One of the diatonic scales; a group of notes or musical pitches in a particular pattern, used to make melodies. The pattern for a major scale is: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone.


lexentry: eng/major_third__Noun__1
written_rep: major third
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 大三度
sense_list:
(music) A musical interval in Western music that is equal to or approximates a frequency ratio of 5/4. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it consists of four standard semitones, spans three degrees of the diatonic scale, and is enharmonically equivalent to a diminished fourth. Major scales are so named because of the major third interval between the tonic and mediant of a major tonic triad.


lexentry: eng/majordomo__Noun__1
written_rep: majordomo
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 管家
sense_list:
The head servant or official in a royal Spanish or Italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthy household in a foreign country; a leading servant or butler.


lexentry: eng/majority__Noun__1
written_rep: majority
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 多数
sense_list:
More than half (50%) of some group. | In a parliament or legislature, the difference in seats between the ruling party and the opposition; (UK) in an election, the difference in votes between the winning candidate and the second-place candidate, or between the winning candidate and all of the other candidates combined.


lexentry: eng/make__Verb__1
written_rep: make
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 30
trans_list: 做
sense_list:
(obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.


lexentry: eng/make_it__Verb__1
written_rep: make it
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 创作
sense_list:
To succeed in doing something, for example in reaching a place, going somewhere, attending an event, arriving in time for something, adding to one's schedule or itinerary, or in getting where one wants to be in one's life or career, which sometimes means becoming or wanting to become successful (succeed in a big way) or famous.


lexentry: eng/make_out__Verb__1
written_rep: make out
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 到达
sense_list:
(now, chiefly, US, regional, intransitive) To manage, get along; to do (well, badly etc.). [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/make_strange__Verb__1
written_rep: make strange
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 認生
sense_list:
(idiomatic, especially of small children) To behave in a shy, uncommunicative, resistant manner when encountering an unfamiliar person or situation.


lexentry: eng/make_the_most_of__Verb__1
written_rep: make the most of
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 享受
sense_list:
(idiomatic, transitive) To realise the maximal value, worth, or potential of (something); to derive as much benefit or profit from (something) as is possible.


lexentry: eng/makeover__Noun__1
written_rep: makeover
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 改革
sense_list:
A major change in the use of something, or in the appearance of something or someone; a radical transformation.


lexentry: eng/makeup__Noun__1
written_rep: makeup
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 化妝
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.


lexentry: eng/malachite__Noun__1
written_rep: malachite
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 孔雀石
sense_list:
(mineral) A bright green mineral, a basic copper carbonate, Cu2CO3(OH)2; one of the principal ores of copper.


lexentry: eng/malaria__Noun__1
written_rep: malaria
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 疟疾 | 瘧疾
sense_list:
(disease) A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.


lexentry: eng/male__Adjective__1
written_rep: male
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 男
sense_list:
Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/malice__Noun__1
written_rep: malice
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 惡意
sense_list:
Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.


lexentry: eng/mallard__Noun__1
written_rep: mallard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 凫
sense_list:
(countable) Anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.


lexentry: eng/malpractice__Noun__1
written_rep: malpractice
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 過失
sense_list:
The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss. | (tort law) Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person.


lexentry: eng/maltose__Noun__1
written_rep: maltose
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 麥芽糖
sense_list:
(carbohydrate) A disaccharide, C12H22O11 formed from the digestion of starch by amylase; is converted to glucose by maltase; it is an isomer of trehalose


lexentry: eng/mama's_boy__Noun__1
written_rep: mama's boy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 老婆当家的
sense_list:
(informal, idiomatic, derogatory, North America) A male who has a very close bond with his mother, and may consequently be perceived as soft or effeminate.


lexentry: eng/mammography__Noun__1
written_rep: mammography
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 乳房攝影術
sense_list:
(medicine) X-ray examination of the breasts for diagnosing and locating abnormalities, especially tumours.


lexentry: eng/mammoth__Noun__1
written_rep: mammoth
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 猛犸象
sense_list:
Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.


lexentry: eng/mammy__Noun__1
written_rep: mammy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 妈妈
sense_list:
(US, historical, often pejorative) In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children.


lexentry: eng/man__Noun__1
written_rep: man
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 男人 | 人
sense_list:
A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.


lexentry: eng/manacle__Noun__1
written_rep: manacle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 手銬
sense_list:
A shackle for the wrist, usually consisting of a pair of joined rings; a handcuff; (by extension) a similar device put around an ankle to restrict free movement.


lexentry: eng/management__Noun__1
written_rep: management
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 方向
sense_list:
(uncountable) Administration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals. | (uncountable) The prosecuting side in an impeachment trial (as opposed to the respondent or defending side).


lexentry: eng/manager__Noun__1
written_rep: manager
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 老板
sense_list:
(management) A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.


lexentry: eng/mandala__Noun__1
written_rep: mandala
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 曼陀罗
sense_list:
(Hinduism, Buddhism) Any ritualistic geometric design, symbolic of the Universe, used as an aid to meditation. | A division or book of the Rigveda (of which there are ten).


lexentry: eng/mandarin_duck__Noun__1
written_rep: mandarin duck
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鸳鸯
sense_list:
A colorful perching duck that has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face, Aix galericulata.


lexentry: eng/mandarin_orange__Noun__1
written_rep: mandarin orange
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 官
sense_list:
A small citrus tree (Citrus reticulata) with oblate fruits smaller than the (so-named) sweet oranges.


lexentry: eng/mandarin_orange__Noun__1
written_rep: mandarin orange
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 桔子
sense_list:
The fruit of this tree; in loose, informal usage, the term may include other similar citrus fruits such as Citrus unshiu (satsuma or mikan).


lexentry: eng/mandolin__Noun__1
written_rep: mandolin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 曼陀林
sense_list:
(string instrument) A stringed instrument of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back.


lexentry: eng/mandrake__Noun__1
written_rep: mandrake
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 毒茄蔘
sense_list:
Any plant of the genus Mandragora, certain of which are said to have medicinal or aphrodisiac properties; the root of these plants often resembles the shape of a small person, hence occasioning various mythic, magical, or occult uses. | A root of a mandrake plant that resembled human form, especially one kept or used for magic or occult purposes. | (slang) The drug methaqualone. | (folklore) A kind of tiny demon immune to fire.


lexentry: eng/manga__Noun__1
written_rep: manga
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 漫画 | 漫畫
sense_list:
(countable, comics) A comic originating in Japan. | (countable, loosely, sometimes, proscribed) Any comic in such a style, regardless of the country of origin.


lexentry: eng/mangal__Noun__1
written_rep: mangal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 红树林
sense_list:
(ecology) A tropical and subtropical coastal intertidal swampland ecosystem characterized by mangroves or similar shrubs and trees.


lexentry: eng/manganese__Noun__1
written_rep: manganese
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 錳 | 锰
sense_list:
(uncountable) A metallic chemical element (symbol Mn) with an atomic number of 25, not a free element in nature but often found in minerals in combination with iron, and useful in industrial alloy production.


lexentry: eng/mange__Noun__1
written_rep: mange
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 惡人
sense_list:
(veterinary medicine) A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).


lexentry: eng/mango__Noun__1
written_rep: mango
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 芒果
sense_list:
A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica. | A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.


lexentry: eng/mangrove__Noun__1
written_rep: mangrove
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 紅樹
sense_list:
Any of various tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubs or trees chiefly of the Rhizophoraceae family that have aerial roots and grow in clumps in brackish intertidal coastal areas; (specifically) any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle). [from early 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/manifest_destiny__Noun__1
written_rep: manifest destiny
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 昭昭天命
sense_list:
The political doctrine or belief held by the United States of America, particularly during its expansion, that the nation was destined to expand toward the west. | The political doctrine or belief held by many citizens of the United States of America that their system is best, and the idea that all humans would like to become Americans. | The belief that God supports the expansion of the United States of America throughout the entire North American continent except Mexico.


lexentry: eng/manifestation__Noun__1
written_rep: manifestation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 示威
sense_list:
The act or process of becoming manifest. | (medical) The symptoms or observable conditions which are seen as a result of some disease.


lexentry: eng/manipulate__Verb__1
written_rep: manipulate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 操纵
sense_list:
(transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something | (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose


lexentry: eng/manipulation__Noun__1
written_rep: manipulation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 操縱
sense_list:
The practice of manipulating or the state of being manipulated. | The skillful use of the hands in, for example, chiropractic.


lexentry: eng/mannerism__Noun__1
written_rep: mannerism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 风格主义
sense_list:
A noticeable personal habit, a verbal or other (often, but not necessarily unconscious) habitual behavior peculiar to an individual. | Exaggerated or affected style in art, speech, or other behavior.


lexentry: eng/mannitol__Noun__1
written_rep: mannitol
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 甘露醇
sense_list:
(organic compound) A polyhydric alcohol, an isomer of sorbitol, found in nature and also manufactured for use in various applications (for example, as an artificial sweetener and as a medication for various indications).


lexentry: eng/manometer__Noun__1
written_rep: manometer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 压力测量
sense_list:
An instrument to measure pressure in a fluid, especially a double-legged liquid column gauge used to measure the difference in the pressures of two fluids.


lexentry: eng/manta_ray__Noun__1
written_rep: manta ray
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 蝠鲼科
sense_list:
Any of several very large pelagic rays formerly of the genus Manta, now placed in genus Mobula, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head.


lexentry: eng/manticore__Noun__1
written_rep: manticore
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 蝎狮
sense_list:
(Greek mythology) A beast with the body of a lion (usually red), the tail of a scorpion, and the head/face of a man with a mouth filled with multiple rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), said to be able to shoot spikes from its tail or mane to paralyse prey. It may be horned, winged, or both; its voice is described as a mixture of pipes and trumpets.


lexentry: eng/mantis__Noun__1
written_rep: mantis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 螳螂
sense_list:
Any of various large insects of the order Mantodea that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs.


lexentry: eng/mantissa__Noun__1
written_rep: mantissa
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 尾数
sense_list:
(mathematics) The part of a common logarithm after the decimal point, the fractional part of a logarithm.


lexentry: eng/mantle__Noun__1
written_rep: mantle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: 襯衫
sense_list:
A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.) [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/manual_labor__Noun__1
written_rep: manual labor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 手工勞動
sense_list:
(American spelling) Work done by hand or using basic tools rather than by machines; usually physically demanding but (sometimes, _, pejorative) unskilled labor.


lexentry: eng/manufacture__Verb__1
written_rep: manufacture
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 制造
sense_list:
To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery. | (derogatory) To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.


lexentry: eng/manumission__Noun__1
written_rep: manumission
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 用费
sense_list:
Release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving of freedom; the act of manumitting.


lexentry: eng/manure__Noun__1
written_rep: manure
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 肥料
sense_list:
Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.


lexentry: eng/manuscript__Noun__1
written_rep: manuscript
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 手稿
sense_list:
A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.


lexentry: eng/many_a__Determiner__1
written_rep: many a
part_of_speech: determiner
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 很 hěn 非常
sense_list:
Being one of a large number, each one of many; belonging to an aggregate or category, considered singly as one of a kind.


lexentry: eng/map__Noun__1
written_rep: map
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 地图 | 地圖
sense_list:
A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.


lexentry: eng/marcasite__Noun__1
written_rep: marcasite
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 白铁矿
sense_list:
(mineral) The orthorhombic form of iron disulfide, FeS2, occurring as yellow crystals. [from 19th c.] | (historical) Any of various metal sulfides, usually iron sulfide minerals. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/march__Noun__1
written_rep: march
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 进行曲
sense_list:
A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies. | A political rally or parade. | Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music) | Steady forward movement or progression.


lexentry: eng/marching_band__Noun__1
written_rep: marching band
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 军乐队
sense_list:
A group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors, and who often incorporate movement, usually some type of marching, with their musical performance.


lexentry: eng/margarine__Noun__1
written_rep: margarine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 植物牛油
sense_list:
A spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter.


lexentry: eng/marginal__Adjective__1
written_rep: marginal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 平庸
sense_list:
(politics, chiefly, UK, Australia, NZ, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election. | Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.


lexentry: eng/marijuana__Noun__1
written_rep: marijuana
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 大麻
sense_list:
The inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect. | The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa.


lexentry: eng/marinade__Noun__1
written_rep: marinade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 盐水 鹽水
sense_list:
A seasoned, often acidic liquid mixture in which food is marinated, or soaked, usually to flavor and prepare it for cooking.


lexentry: eng/marine__Adjective__1
written_rep: marine
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 水手
sense_list:
Belonging to or characteristic of the sea; existing or found in the sea; formed or produced by the sea.


lexentry: eng/marine_corps__Noun__1
written_rep: marine corps
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 海军
sense_list:
A military organization of marines, soldiers who are trained and equipped to fight on or from ships.


lexentry: eng/mark__Noun__1
written_rep: mark
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 分数
sense_list:
A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/mark__Noun__1
written_rep: mark
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 的
sense_list:
A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional. [from 9th c.]


lexentry: eng/mark__Noun__2
written_rep: mark
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 马克
sense_list:
(historical) A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.


lexentry: eng/mark__Verb__1
written_rep: mark
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 18
trans_list: 音符
sense_list:
(Canada, UK) To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).


lexentry: eng/market__Noun__1
written_rep: market
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 市场
sense_list:
A group of potential or current customers for one's product. | A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists. | The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.


lexentry: eng/market_failure__Noun__1
written_rep: market failure
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 市场失灵
sense_list:
(economics) A situation in which the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not efficient.


lexentry: eng/marketing__Noun__1
written_rep: marketing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 市场营销
sense_list:
(uncountable) The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; the work of a marketer; includes market research and advertising.


lexentry: eng/marketplace__Noun__1
written_rep: marketplace
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 市场
sense_list:
An open area in a town housing a public market. | The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. | (by extension) The world of commerce and trade.


lexentry: eng/markup__Noun__1
written_rep: markup
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 毛利率
sense_list:
The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price. | An increase in price.


lexentry: eng/marl__Noun__1
written_rep: marl
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 泥灰岩
sense_list:
A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and possibly sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy.


lexentry: eng/marlin__Noun__1
written_rep: marlin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 槍魚
sense_list:
Any species of game fish belonging to either of the genera Tetrapturus or Makaira, with a crested dorsal fin and a pointed, spear-like projection of the upper jaw.


lexentry: eng/marmot__Noun__1
written_rep: marmot
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 土拨鼠 | 旱獭
sense_list:
Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.


lexentry: eng/maroon__Noun__1
written_rep: maroon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 栗
sense_list:
An escaped black slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/marriage__Noun__1
written_rep: marriage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 婚姻
sense_list:
The state of being married. [from 14th c.] | (often, _, specifically) The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others.


lexentry: eng/marriage_certificate__Noun__1
written_rep: marriage certificate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 结婚证
sense_list:
(law) An official record indicating that two individuals were legally married on the date of the certificate.


lexentry: eng/marry__Verb__1
written_rep: marry
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 娶
sense_list:
(intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/marry__Verb__1
written_rep: marry
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 结婚
sense_list:
(transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. [from 14th c.] | (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/marshal__Noun__1
written_rep: marshal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 元帅
sense_list:
(historical) A high-ranking officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord, who was originally in charge of the cavalry and later the military forces in general. | A military officer of the highest rank in several countries, including France and the former Soviet Union; equivalent to a general of the army in the United States. See also field marshal.


lexentry: eng/martial_art__Noun__1
written_rep: martial art
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 武术
sense_list:
Any of several fighting styles which contain systematized methods of training for combat, both armed and unarmed; often practiced as a sport, e.g. boxing, karate, judo, silat, wrestling, or Muay Thai.


lexentry: eng/martial_law__Noun__1
written_rep: martial law
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 戒严令
sense_list:
Rule by military authorities, especially when imposed on a civilian population in time of war or other crisis, or in an occupied territory.


lexentry: eng/martin__Noun__1
written_rep: martin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 燕子
sense_list:
Many of the various passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, which also includes swallows, that catch insects whilst flying.


lexentry: eng/martyr__Noun__1
written_rep: martyr
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 烈士
sense_list:
One who willingly accepts being put to death or willingly accepts challenging and exposing iniquity done to oneself for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after red martyrdom. | (by extension) One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause. | (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily.


lexentry: eng/martyrdom__Noun__1
written_rep: martyrdom
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 殉難
sense_list:
The condition of a martyr; the death or suffering of a martyr; the death or suffering on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause.


lexentry: eng/masculine__Adjective__1
written_rep: masculine
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 男的
sense_list:
Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female. | Belonging to males; typically used by males. | (of a noun) Being of the masculine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.


lexentry: eng/mash__Verb__1
written_rep: mash
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 回火
sense_list:
(transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure | (transitive, UK, mostly, Northern England, Lancashire, Yorkshire) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).


lexentry: eng/mask__Noun__1
written_rep: mask
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 面具
sense_list:
A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection. | That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.


lexentry: eng/masquerade__Noun__1
written_rep: masquerade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 盛装舞会
sense_list:
An assembly or party of people wearing (usually elaborate or fanciful) masks and costumes, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. | (figuratively) An act of living under false pretenses; a concealment of something by a false or unreal show; a disguise, a pretence; also, a pretentious display.


lexentry: eng/mass__Noun__1
written_rep: mass
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 质量
sense_list:
(medicine) A palpable or visible abnormal globular structure; a tumor. | (physics) A measure of the inertia of a mass of matter, one of four fundamental properties of matter. SI unit of mass: kilogram. | A quantity of matter cohering so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size.


lexentry: eng/mass__Noun__2
written_rep: mass
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 弥撒
sense_list:
(Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist. | (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist. | A musical setting of parts of the mass.


lexentry: eng/mass_number__Noun__1
written_rep: mass number
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 質量數
sense_list:
(physics, physical chemistry) The total number of protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus. Symbol: A


lexentry: eng/massacre__Noun__1
written_rep: massacre
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 大屠杀
sense_list:
The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.


lexentry: eng/massage__Noun__1
written_rep: massage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 按摩
sense_list:
The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches.


lexentry: eng/massively_multiplayer_online_role-playing_game__Noun__1
written_rep: massively multiplayer online role-playing game
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 大型多人在线角色扮演游戏
sense_list:
An online computer role-playing game in which a large number of players can interact with one another.


lexentry: eng/mast__Noun__1
written_rep: mast
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 杆子
sense_list:
(nautical, communications, aviation) A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, sails or observation platforms on a ship, the main rotor of a helicopter, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments, or communications equipment, such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires (except in the case of a helicopter). [from 9th c.]


lexentry: eng/master's_degree__Noun__1
written_rep: master's degree
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 硕士
sense_list:
A postgraduate degree which aims to assist students in developing a mastery for a particular academic field or profession.


lexentry: eng/mastermind__Noun__1
written_rep: mastermind
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 腦
sense_list:
(idiomatic) A person responsible for the highest level of planning and execution of a major operation.


lexentry: eng/masterpiece__Noun__1
written_rep: masterpiece
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 傑作
sense_list:
A piece of work that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career.


lexentry: eng/masturbate__Verb__1
written_rep: masturbate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 打炮
sense_list:
(intransitive) To stimulate oneself sexually, especially by use of one’s hand or a sex toy made for this purpose, often to the point of ejaculation or orgasm.


lexentry: eng/mat__Noun__1
written_rep: mat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 地毯
sense_list:
A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.


lexentry: eng/match__Noun__2
written_rep: match
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 火柴
sense_list:
A device made of wood or paper, having the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.


lexentry: eng/matchmaking__Noun__1
written_rep: matchmaking
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 调停者 / 調停者
sense_list:
An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.


lexentry: eng/mate__Noun__1
written_rep: mate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 朋友
sense_list:
(colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) A friend, usually of the same sex.


lexentry: eng/material__Adjective__1
written_rep: material
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 料
sense_list:
Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical. | Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily. | (logic) Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical. | (especially, law) Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial. | Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic. | (obsolete) Full of substance or otherwise meaning. | (obsolete) In an important degree.


lexentry: eng/material__Noun__1
written_rep: material
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 材料
sense_list:
A basic matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made. | (rare) The materiel of an army.


lexentry: eng/material__Noun__1
written_rep: material
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 料
sense_list:
Something (as data, observations, perceptions or ideas) that may be incorporated, elaborated or otherwise reworked into a finished form or new form, or may serve as the basis for arriving at interpretations, judgments or conclusions.


lexentry: eng/materialism__Noun__1
written_rep: materialism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 唯物主义
sense_list:
Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns. | (philosophy) The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.


lexentry: eng/maternal_aunt__Noun__1
written_rep: maternal aunt
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 伯母
sense_list:
A sister of one's mother. | A sister-in-law of one's mother; the wife or ex-wife of a maternal uncle. | An aunt on one's mother's side of the family, including both


lexentry: eng/maternal_grandfather__Noun__1
written_rep: maternal grandfather
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 外公
sense_list:
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see maternal,‎ grandfather. (This entry is a translation hub.)


lexentry: eng/mathematical_economics__Noun__1
written_rep: mathematical economics
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 数理经济学
sense_list:
(economics, mathematics) A sub-field of economics which aims at expressing economic theories with mathematical formulae.


lexentry: eng/mathematics__Noun__1
written_rep: mathematics
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 数学
sense_list:
An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them. | A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.


lexentry: eng/matrix__Noun__1
written_rep: matrix
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: 矩阵 | 矩陣
sense_list:
(mathematics) A rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory.


lexentry: eng/matter__Noun__1
written_rep: matter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 物质
sense_list:
(physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. | A kind of substance. | An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.


lexentry: eng/mattress__Noun__1
written_rep: mattress
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 床垫 | 床墊
sense_list:
A pad on which a person can recline and sleep, usually having an inner section of coiled springs covered with foam or other cushioning material then enclosed with cloth fabric.


lexentry: eng/mature__Adjective__1
written_rep: mature
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 成熟
sense_list:
Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe. | Profound; careful.


lexentry: eng/maudlin__Adjective__1
written_rep: maudlin
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 愛哭鬼
sense_list:
Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness. [from 17th c.] | Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/maxilla__Noun__1
written_rep: maxilla
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 腭
sense_list:
(skeleton) Either of the two bones that lie with one on each side of the upper jaw lateral to the premaxilla and that in higher vertebrates bear most of the teeth.


lexentry: eng/maximum__Noun__1
written_rep: maximum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 大限
sense_list:
The highest limit. | (mathematics) The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function.


lexentry: eng/may__Verb__1
written_rep: may
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 可以
sense_list:
(modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests. [from 9th c.] | (modal auxiliary verb, defective) Expressing a present possibility; possibly. [from 13th c.]


lexentry: eng/may__Verb__1
written_rep: may
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: 什么
sense_list:
(subjunctive present, defective, chiefly, poetic) Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect). [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/maybe__Adverb__1
written_rep: maybe
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 也許
sense_list:
(as a pro-sentence) Perhaps that is true (expressing no commitment to a decision or a neutral viewpoint to a statement).


lexentry: eng/mayfly__Noun__1
written_rep: mayfly
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 蜉蝣
sense_list:
Any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults.


lexentry: eng/mayor_of_the_palace__Noun__1
written_rep: mayor of the palace
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 市长
sense_list:
(historical) In the Merovingian kingdoms, the king’s steward and, by the 7th century, de facto regent.


lexentry: eng/mayoralty__Noun__1
written_rep: mayoralty
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 城镇厅
sense_list:
The office of a mayor, or the tenure during which a particular mayor holds office, where the time span may encompass one term or multiple terms.


lexentry: eng/maze__Noun__1
written_rep: maze
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 迷宫
sense_list:
A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.


lexentry: eng/mazurka__Noun__1
written_rep: mazurka
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 马祖卡
sense_list:
(music) A Polish folk dance in triple time, usually moderately fast, containing a heavy accent on the third beat and occasionally the second beat. | (music) A classical musical composition inspired by the folk dance and conforming in some respects to its form, particularly as popularized by Chopin.


lexentry: eng/me__Pronoun__1
written_rep: me
part_of_speech: pronoun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 我
sense_list:
(archaic, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb. | (colloquial, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative. | As the object (direct or indirect) of a verb.


lexentry: eng/meadow__Noun__1
written_rep: meadow
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 草地
sense_list:
A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.


lexentry: eng/meal__Noun__1
written_rep: meal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 餐
sense_list:
(countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).


lexentry: eng/meal__Noun__2
written_rep: meal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 麵粉
sense_list:
The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies).


lexentry: eng/meal_ticket__Noun__1
written_rep: meal ticket
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 生计
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Someone or something that provides income or livelihood, especially as an exploited source.


lexentry: eng/mean__Adjective__1
written_rep: mean
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 卑鄙
sense_list:
Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base. | Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.


lexentry: eng/mean__Noun__1
written_rep: mean
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 高
sense_list:
(music, now, historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/mean__Verb__1
written_rep: mean
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 意思
sense_list:
(transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says). [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/meander__Noun__1
written_rep: meander
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 蜿蜒曲折
sense_list:
(geography) One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse | A tortuous or winding journey.


lexentry: eng/meaning__Noun__1
written_rep: meaning
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 意思
sense_list:
The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol. | The purpose, value, or significance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing's existence.


lexentry: eng/meanwhile__Adverb__1
written_rep: meanwhile
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 同時
sense_list:
During the time that something is happening, often specifically in a different place. | During an intervening time; from now until a future time.


lexentry: eng/measles__Noun__1
written_rep: measles
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 麻疹
sense_list:
(disease) An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes.


lexentry: eng/measure__Noun__1
written_rep: measure
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 尺寸
sense_list:
The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.) [from 14th c.] | (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/measure__Verb__1
written_rep: measure
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 測量
sense_list:
To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.


lexentry: eng/measure_word__Noun__1
written_rep: measure word
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 量词
sense_list:
(linguistics) A word or morpheme used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns, used especially in Asian languages.


lexentry: eng/meat__Noun__1
written_rep: meat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 肉
sense_list:
(uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food, or a food designed to replicate its taste and texture (like plant-based meat). [from 14th c.] | (countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. [from 16th c.] | (uncountable) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/meatloaf__Noun__1
written_rep: meatloaf
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 肉馅马铃薯饼
sense_list:
A dish of ground meat (usually made from ground beef, although lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry and seafood are also used) formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices.


lexentry: eng/mechanic__Noun__1
written_rep: mechanic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 機械師
sense_list:
(now, chiefly, historical) A manual worker; a labourer or artisan. [from 16th c.] | Someone who builds or repairs machinery, a technician; now specifically, someone who works with and repairs the mechanical parts of a motor vehicle, aircraft or similar. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/mechanical_pencil__Noun__1
written_rep: mechanical pencil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 自动铅笔
sense_list:
(North America) A pencil with a replaceable and mechanically extendable lead that wears away with use, designed to provide lines of constant thickness without requiring sharpening, and typically featuring a small eraser at the end opposite the tip.


lexentry: eng/medal__Noun__1
written_rep: medal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 奖章 | 獎章
sense_list:
A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object. | A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.


lexentry: eng/media_outlet__Noun__1
written_rep: media outlet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 机关刊物
sense_list:
(media) A publication or broadcast program that provides news and feature stories to the public through various distribution channels, including newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and web sites.


lexentry: eng/media_studies__Noun__1
written_rep: media studies
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 媒体科学
sense_list:
Academic discipline that deals with the content, history, meaning and effects of various media, in particular mass media.


lexentry: eng/median__Noun__1
written_rep: median
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 中线
sense_list:
(statistics) A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/medical_doctor__Noun__1
written_rep: medical doctor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 医生
sense_list:
A physician; a person who holds a doctoral degree or first professional degree in medicine, and practices in that profession.


lexentry: eng/medical_history__Noun__1
written_rep: medical history
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 回忆
sense_list:
Details of a patient's previous medical experiences, such as existing comorbidities, past infections, operations undergone, and medications taken.


lexentry: eng/medicine__Noun__1
written_rep: medicine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 藥
sense_list:
(uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.


lexentry: eng/mediterranean_sea__Noun__1
written_rep: mediterranean sea
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 陸間海
sense_list:
(oceanography) A mostly enclosed sea that has limited exchange of deep water with outer oceans, and where the water circulation is dominated by salinity and temperature differences rather than winds.


lexentry: eng/medlar__Noun__1
written_rep: medlar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 枇杷
sense_list:
Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica). | Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera.


lexentry: eng/medusa__Noun__1
written_rep: medusa
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 水母
sense_list:
(zoology) A jellyfish; specifically, a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/meerkat__Noun__1
written_rep: meerkat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 狐獴
sense_list:
Suricata suricatta, a small carnivorous mammal of the mongoose family, from the Kalahari Desert, known for its habit of standing on its hind legs.


lexentry: eng/meet__Verb__1
written_rep: meet
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 聚會
sense_list:
To come face to face with by accident; to encounter. | To come face to face with someone by arrangement.


lexentry: eng/meet__Verb__1
written_rep: meet
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: 碰到
sense_list:
To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.


lexentry: eng/megalith__Noun__1
written_rep: megalith
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 巨石文化
sense_list:
A large stone slab making up a prehistoric monument, or part of such a monument. | A prehistoric monument made up of one or more large stones.


lexentry: eng/megalomania__Noun__1
written_rep: megalomania
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 自大狂
sense_list:
A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.


lexentry: eng/megalopolis__Noun__1
written_rep: megalopolis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 大都市帶
sense_list:
A large conurbation, where two or more large cities have sprawled outward to meet, forming something larger than a normal metropolis.


lexentry: eng/megaphone__Noun__1
written_rep: megaphone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 扩音器
sense_list:
A portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device that is used to amplify a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction.


lexentry: eng/megawatt__Noun__1
written_rep: megawatt
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 兆瓦
sense_list:
One million (1 000 000) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as an entire commercial building or a small passenger aircraft. (Consuming 1 megawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 megawatt-hour of energy.)


lexentry: eng/megrim__Noun__2
written_rep: megrim
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 巫
sense_list:
A flatfish of the genus Lepidorhombus native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean; specifically, a Cornish sole, sail-fluke, witch or whiff (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis).


lexentry: eng/meiosis__Noun__1
written_rep: meiosis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 减数分裂
sense_list:
(usually, uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.


lexentry: eng/melancholic__Adjective__1
written_rep: melancholic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 抑郁症
sense_list:
Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.


lexentry: eng/melanin__Noun__1
written_rep: melanin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 黑色素
sense_list:
(biochemistry) Any of a group of naturally occurring dark pigments, especially the pigment found in skin, hair, fur, and feathers.


lexentry: eng/melanoma__Noun__1
written_rep: melanoma
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 黑色素瘤
sense_list:
(oncology, disease) A dark-pigmented, usually malignant tumor arising from a melanocyte and occurring most commonly in the skin.


lexentry: eng/meld__Noun__2
written_rep: meld
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 角
sense_list:
(card games) Especially in games of the rummy family: a combination of playing cards which is announced or played to score points. [from late 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/melodica__Noun__1
written_rep: melodica
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 口风琴
sense_list:
A free-reed keyboard wind instrument, often played with a flexible plastic tube connected to the mouthpiece.


lexentry: eng/melt__Verb__1
written_rep: melt
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 融化
sense_list:
(ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. | (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish. | (transitive, figurative) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.


lexentry: eng/melting__Noun__1
written_rep: melting
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 熔化
sense_list:
The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.


lexentry: eng/melting_point__Noun__1
written_rep: melting point
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 熔点
sense_list:
(chemistry, physics) The temperature at which the solid and liquid phases of a substance are in equilibrium; it is relatively insensitive to changes in pressure.


lexentry: eng/melting_pot__Noun__1
written_rep: melting pot
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 大熔炉
sense_list:
(figurative) A place where many divergent things (often races or cultures, but also talents) come together and are homogenized.


lexentry: eng/membrane__Noun__1
written_rep: membrane
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 膜
sense_list:
(anatomy, zootomy) A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments. | A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force. | A piece of parchment forming part of a roll.


lexentry: eng/memoir__Noun__1
written_rep: memoir
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 記憶
sense_list:
A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject.


lexentry: eng/memorial__Noun__1
written_rep: memorial
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 纪念碑
sense_list:
(obsolete) Memory; recollection. [14th–18th c.] | Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered. [from 14th c.] | A chronicle or memoir. [from 14th c.] | (now, rare) A note or memorandum. [from 14th c.] | (chiefly, Christianity) A service of remembrance or commemoration. [from 15th c.] | (legal) A statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/memory__Noun__1
written_rep: memory
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 記憶
sense_list:
(uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later, usually at will. | (computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).


lexentry: eng/memory_leak__Noun__1
written_rep: memory leak
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 内存泄漏
sense_list:
(computing) Any of several faults in the memory allocation logic of a computer or program whereby parts of memory become hidden or unusable.


lexentry: eng/menstruation__Noun__1
written_rep: menstruation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 月經 | 月经
sense_list:
The periodic discharging of the menses, the flow of blood and cells from the lining of the uterus in unfertilized females of humans and other primates.


lexentry: eng/mental__Adjective__1
written_rep: mental
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 精神
sense_list:
(relational) Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.


lexentry: eng/mental_calculation__Noun__1
written_rep: mental calculation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 心算
sense_list:
Arithmetical calculations using only the human brain, with no help from any supplies (such as pencil and paper) or devices such as a calculator.


lexentry: eng/mental_illness__Noun__1
written_rep: mental illness
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 精神疾病
sense_list:
(uncountable, psychiatry) The property of being mentally ill; mental disorders taken as a whole. | (countable, psychiatry) A mental disorder.


lexentry: eng/menthol__Noun__1
written_rep: menthol
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 薄荷醇
sense_list:
(organic compound) A cyclic monoterpene alcohol; the major component of the essential oil of peppermint; used in pharmaceutical preparations as an antitussive and antipruritic agent, as a nasal decongestant, and in menthol cigarettes.


lexentry: eng/menu__Noun__1
written_rep: menu
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 菜单 | 选单
sense_list:
The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare. | A list containing the food and beverages served at a restaurant, café, or bar. Menus may be printed on paper sheets provided to customers, put on a large poster or display board inside the establishment, displayed outside the restaurant, or digital. | (computing, gaming) A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface.


lexentry: eng/mercantilism__Noun__1
written_rep: mercantilism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 重商主义
sense_list:
(historical, economics) The theory that a nation must always have a positive balance of trade, in the manner that a merchant would operate a shop. Typically this model presupposes protectionism.


lexentry: eng/mercenary__Noun__1
written_rep: mercenary
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 雇佣兵
sense_list:
A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose primary motivation is private gain.


lexentry: eng/mercurial__Adjective__1
written_rep: mercurial
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 水星人
sense_list:
(not comparable, astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mercury; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see adjective sense 1). [from 16th c.] | (not comparable, Roman mythology) Pertaining to Mercury, the Roman god of, among other things, commerce, financial gain, communication, and thieves and trickery; hence (comparable) , money-making; crafty. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/mercury__Noun__1
written_rep: mercury
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 水银
sense_list:
(with definite article) Ambient pressure or temperature (from the use of mercury in barometers and thermometers). [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/mercury__Noun__1
written_rep: mercury
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 汞
sense_list:
(science, historical) One of the elemental principles formerly thought to be present in all metals. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/mere__Adjective__1
written_rep: mere
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 僅
sense_list:
Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/merger__Noun__2
written_rep: merger
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 合并
sense_list:
The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit. | (economics) The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party. | (legal) An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.


lexentry: eng/meridian__Noun__1
written_rep: meridian
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 经线
sense_list:
(also, geography) In full terrestrial meridian: a great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles (the terrestrial North Pole and South Pole); also, half of such a circle extending from pole to pole, all points of which have the same longitude. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/meridional__Adjective__1
written_rep: meridional
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 南方
sense_list:
located in the south, southern; later especially, often pertaining to the southern parts of Europe. [from 14th c.] | of or characteristic of southern areas or people, especially those in the southern parts of Europe [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/meringue__Noun__1
written_rep: meringue
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 蛋白脆饼
sense_list:
A mixture consisting of beaten egg whites and sugar which is added to the tops of pies then browned. | A shell made of this mixture which serves as the receptacle for fruit, ice cream or sherbet.


lexentry: eng/merit__Noun__1
written_rep: merit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 功劳
sense_list:
(countable) A claim to commendation or a reward. | (countable, uncountable) Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.


lexentry: eng/merlon__Noun__1
written_rep: merlon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 齒
sense_list:
(architectural element, military, historical) Any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement, originally for archers to shield behind while shooting arrows over the embrasures, or through loopholes in the merlons.


lexentry: eng/merry-go-round__Noun__1
written_rep: merry-go-round
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 旋轉木馬
sense_list:
A carousel; a pleasure ride, typically found at fairs and amusement parks, consisting of a slowly revolving circular platform on which various seats are fixed, frequently shaped like horses or other animals.


lexentry: eng/mesh__Noun__1
written_rep: mesh
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 互联网
sense_list:
A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.


lexentry: eng/mesoderm__Noun__1
written_rep: mesoderm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中胚层
sense_list:
(embryology) One of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal, which will produce, through development, many internal organs of the adult, e.g. muscles, spine and the circulatory system.


lexentry: eng/meson__Noun__2
written_rep: meson
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 介子
sense_list:
(now specifically, particle) An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.)


lexentry: eng/mesosphere__Noun__1
written_rep: mesosphere
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中间层
sense_list:
(meteorology) The layer of the Earth's atmosphere that is directly above the stratosphere and directly below the thermosphere.


lexentry: eng/messenger_RNA__Noun__1
written_rep: messenger RNA
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 信使核糖核酸
sense_list:
(biochemistry) RNA that encodes and carries information from DNA during transcription to sites of protein synthesis to undergo translation in order to yield a protein.


lexentry: eng/messiah__Noun__1
written_rep: messiah
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 弥赛亚
sense_list:
(Abrahamism) The one who is ordained by God to lead the people of Israel, believed by Christians and Muslims to be Jesus Christ.


lexentry: eng/meta-__Prefix__2
written_rep: meta-
part_of_speech: prefix
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 元
sense_list:
Transcending, encompassing. | Pertaining to a level above or beyond; reflexive or recursive; about itself or about other things of the same type. For example, metadata is data that describes data, metalanguage is language that describes language, etc. [From 17th century] | Having analogies with metaphysics.


lexentry: eng/metal__Noun__1
written_rep: metal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 金属 | 金
sense_list:
Any material with similar physical properties as those chemical elements, especially as a combination of several of them, such as an alloy. | Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity.


lexentry: eng/metal_detector__Noun__1
written_rep: metal detector
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 金属探测器
sense_list:
A hand-held device that uses electromagnetic induction to detect buried metal. | A metal-detecting device, incorporated into a full-body scanner structure, through which people pass, used to detect certain concealed weapons and certain contraband.


lexentry: eng/metalanguage__Noun__1
written_rep: metalanguage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 元語言
sense_list:
(linguistics, translation studies, critical theory) Any language or vocabulary of terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process. | (computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language


lexentry: eng/metallic__Adjective__1
written_rep: metallic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 金属
sense_list:
Of, relating to, or characteristic of metal. | (of a color) Having the appearance of being of polished metal.


lexentry: eng/metalloid__Noun__1
written_rep: metalloid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 类金属
sense_list:
(chemistry) An element, such as silicon or germanium, intermediate in properties between that of a metal and a nonmetal; especially an elemental semiconductor.


lexentry: eng/metallurgy__Noun__1
written_rep: metallurgy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 冶金学
sense_list:
The science of metals; their extraction from ores, purification and alloying, heat treatment, and working.


lexentry: eng/metamorphic_rock__Noun__1
written_rep: metamorphic rock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 变质岩
sense_list:
(geology) one of the major groups of rock that makes up the crust of the Earth; consists of pre-existing rock mass in which new minerals or textures are formed at higher temperatures and greater pressures than those present on the Earth's surface.


lexentry: eng/metamorphosis__Noun__1
written_rep: metamorphosis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 变形
sense_list:
A transformation, such as one performed by magic. | A noticeable change in character, appearance, function, or condition. | (pathology) A change, usually degenerative, in the structure of a specific body tissue.


lexentry: eng/metaphor__Noun__1
written_rep: metaphor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 隐喻
sense_list:
(uncountable, figure of speech) The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word, etc., that is used. | (countable, figure of speech) A word or phrase used in such implied comparison.


lexentry: eng/metastasis__Noun__1
written_rep: metastasis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 遠端轉移
sense_list:
(medicine) The transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body, specifically the development of a secondary area of disease remote from the original site, as with some cancers.


lexentry: eng/metathesis__Noun__1
written_rep: metathesis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 转移
sense_list:
(phonetics, prosody) The transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word, such as in ask as /æks/.


lexentry: eng/metaverse__Noun__1
written_rep: metaverse
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 元宇宙
sense_list:
(science fiction, Internet, computing) A hypothetical future (counterpart or continuation of the) Internet, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space.


lexentry: eng/meteor__Noun__1
written_rep: meteor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 流星
sense_list:
A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or falling star. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/meteorology__Noun__1
written_rep: meteorology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 气象学 | 氣象學
sense_list:
The science that deals with the study of the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially with weather and weather forecasting.


lexentry: eng/methamphetamine__Noun__1
written_rep: methamphetamine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 甲基苯丙胺
sense_list:
A highly addictive phenethylamine stimulant drug. Its systematic (IUPAC) name is (S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine.


lexentry: eng/methane__Noun__1
written_rep: methane
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 甲烷
sense_list:
(organic compound, uncountable) The simplest aliphatic hydrocarbon, CH₄, being a constituent of natural gas, and one of the most abundant greenhouse gases.


lexentry: eng/methanol__Noun__1
written_rep: methanol
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 甲醇
sense_list:
(organic compound) The simplest aliphatic alcohol, CH3OH; a colourless, toxic, inflammable liquid, used as a solvent, antifreeze, in the chemical industry, and in the preparation of methylated spirit.


lexentry: eng/method__Noun__1
written_rep: method
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 方法
sense_list:
(countable) A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process). | (object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.


lexentry: eng/methodology__Noun__1
written_rep: methodology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 方法論
sense_list:
(originally, sciences) The study of methods used in a field. | (loosely) A collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field.


lexentry: eng/methylation__Noun__1
written_rep: methylation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 甲基化作用
sense_list:
(genetics) The addition of a methyl group to cytosine and adenine residues in DNA that leads to the epigenetic modification of DNA and the reduction of gene expression and protein production.


lexentry: eng/metre__Noun__1
written_rep: metre
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 米
sense_list:
The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39+47⁄127 (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.


lexentry: eng/metronome__Noun__1
written_rep: metronome
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 节拍器
sense_list:
(music) A device, containing an inverted pendulum, used to mark time by means of regular ticks at adjustable intervals; an electronic equivalent that emits flashes.


lexentry: eng/metropolis__Noun__1
written_rep: metropolis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 都
sense_list:
(history, especially, Ancient Greece) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony. | A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.


lexentry: eng/microbiology__Noun__1
written_rep: microbiology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 微生物学
sense_list:
(biology) The branch of biology that deals with microorganisms, especially their effects on man and other living organisms.


lexentry: eng/microcontroller__Noun__1
written_rep: microcontroller
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 单片机
sense_list:
(computing, electronics) A microcomputer on a single chip, used to control some device such as an automobile engine or a toy.


lexentry: eng/microkernel__Noun__1
written_rep: microkernel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 微内核
sense_list:
(operating systems) A minimal operating system kernel offering basic mechanisms rather than abstract services.


lexentry: eng/microorganism__Noun__1
written_rep: microorganism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 微生物
sense_list:
(microbiology) An organism that is too small to be seen by the unaided eye; especially, a single-celled organism, such as a bacterium.


lexentry: eng/microphone__Noun__1
written_rep: microphone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 麥克風 | 麦克风
sense_list:
A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.


lexentry: eng/microraion__Noun__1
written_rep: microraion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 住宅区
sense_list:
A residential complex in a current or former communist country, chiefly one which was previously part of the Soviet Union; a microdistrict.


lexentry: eng/microscopic__Adjective__1
written_rep: microscopic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 极微小的
sense_list:
Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal | So small that it can only be seen with the aid of a microscope. | Very small; minute


lexentry: eng/mid-life_crisis__Noun__1
written_rep: mid-life crisis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中年危機
sense_list:
(psychology) An emotional period of doubt and anxiety sometimes experienced by middle-aged people who realize that their life is already half over.


lexentry: eng/mid__Adjective__1
written_rep: mid
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 方法
sense_list:
(linguistics) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, [e o ɛ ɔ].


lexentry: eng/middle_ear__Noun__1
written_rep: middle ear
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中耳
sense_list:
(anatomy) The cavity in the temporal bone between the eardrum and the inner ear that contains the ossicles, and which conveys sound to the cochlea.


lexentry: eng/middle_of_nowhere__Noun__1
written_rep: middle of nowhere
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鳥不拉屎的地方
sense_list:
(idiomatic) A very remote or secluded area; a nondescript place lacking population, interesting things, or defining characteristics.


lexentry: eng/middle_school__Noun__1
written_rep: middle school
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中学
sense_list:
(schools, countable) A school which crosses the traditional divide between primary school and secondary school.


lexentry: eng/midge__Noun__1
written_rep: midge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 蚊
sense_list:
Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera.


lexentry: eng/midget__Noun__1
written_rep: midget
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 侏儒
sense_list:
(sometimes, derogatory) A very small thing; especially one which is conspicuously smaller than expected or by comparison. [from early 19th c.] | (derogatory, offensive) A short person. [from later 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/midnight__Noun__1
written_rep: midnight
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 半夜
sense_list:
The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise. | Twelve o'clock at night exactly.


lexentry: eng/midriff__Noun__1
written_rep: midriff
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 肚
sense_list:
(anatomy) The middle section of the human torso, from below the chest to above the waist; the abdomen and its back part.


lexentry: eng/midst__Noun__1
written_rep: midst
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中
sense_list:
(often, literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.


lexentry: eng/midwife__Noun__1
written_rep: midwife
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 助产士
sense_list:
(obstetrics) A person, usually a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth, but who is not a physician.


lexentry: eng/mien__Noun__1
written_rep: mien
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 态度
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer. | (countable) A specific facial expression.


lexentry: eng/might__Noun__1
written_rep: might
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 权力
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) Power, strength, force, or influence held by a person or group. | (uncountable) The ability to do something.


lexentry: eng/migraine__Noun__1
written_rep: migraine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 偏头痛
sense_list:
(pathology) A severe, disabling headache, usually affecting only one side of the head, and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia and visual disturbances.


lexentry: eng/migratory_bird__Noun__1
written_rep: migratory bird
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 候鸟
sense_list:
A bird that moves from one area of the world to another according to the season, usually from north to south and vice versa.


lexentry: eng/mild__Adjective__1
written_rep: mild
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 轻
sense_list:
Gentle and not easily angered. | (of food, drink, or a drug) Not sharp or bitter; not strong in flavor.


lexentry: eng/mildew__Noun__1
written_rep: mildew
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 白马
sense_list:
(plant disease) A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.


lexentry: eng/mile__Noun__1
written_rep: mile
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 英里
sense_list:
Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values. | Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.


lexentry: eng/milestone__Noun__1
written_rep: milestone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 里程碑
sense_list:
A stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median. | (idiomatic) An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc.


lexentry: eng/militarism__Noun__1
written_rep: militarism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 军国主义
sense_list:
An ideology which claims that the military is the foundation of a society's security, and thereby its most important aspect.


lexentry: eng/military__Adjective__1
written_rep: military
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 軍事
sense_list:
Characteristic of members of the armed forces. | (North America) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces). | Relating to war. | Relating to armies or ground forces.


lexentry: eng/military_parade__Noun__1
written_rep: military parade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 閱兵
sense_list:
(military) A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times.


lexentry: eng/militia__Noun__1
written_rep: militia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 民兵
sense_list:
An army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need, the entire able-bodied population of a state which may also be called upon, or a private force not under government control.


lexentry: eng/milk__Noun__1
written_rep: milk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 牛奶 | 奶
sense_list:
(uncountable, by extension) A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.


lexentry: eng/mill__Noun__1
written_rep: mill
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 磑
sense_list:
The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.


lexentry: eng/millennial__Adjective__1
written_rep: millennial
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 千年
sense_list:
Thousand-year-old; also (by extension, loosely) thousands of years old. | Occurring every thousand years. | Referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening. | (by extension, originally, US, demography) Often capitalized: of or relating to, or characteristic of, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century from around the early 1980s to the mid 1990s (with 1996 births cited as the last Millennial year), and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E. | (Christianity) Synonym of millenarian (“pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ and his reign on earth”).


lexentry: eng/millennium__Noun__1
written_rep: millennium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 千年
sense_list:
(with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.


lexentry: eng/millet__Noun__1
written_rep: millet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 小米
sense_list:
Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.


lexentry: eng/millilitre__Noun__1
written_rep: millilitre
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 毫升
sense_list:
(British spelling) A unit of measure of capacity, equal to one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: mL or ml.


lexentry: eng/milliwatt__Noun__1
written_rep: milliwatt
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 千瓦
sense_list:
One thousandth (10-3) of a watt, an amount of power that can power a small electronic device such as a single microchip. (Consuming 1 milliwatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 milliwatt-hour of energy.).


lexentry: eng/mimicry__Noun__1
written_rep: mimicry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 拟态
sense_list:
An act or ability to simulate or effect the appearance, characteristics, or behavior of someone or something else.


lexentry: eng/mina__Noun__2
written_rep: mina
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 礦山
sense_list:
(historical) A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver. [From 15th C.]


lexentry: eng/mine__Noun__1
written_rep: mine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 礦山
sense_list:
An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.


lexentry: eng/mineral__Noun__1
written_rep: mineral
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 矿物
sense_list:
(geology) Any naturally occurring material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties; especially, an inorganic one. | Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable). | (nutrition) Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition.


lexentry: eng/mineral_water__Noun__1
written_rep: mineral water
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 礦泉水
sense_list:
Water from a spring that naturally contains dissolved minerals, often treated in any of several ways (filtering, aerating etc) and bottled; used either therapeutically or by preference, as a beverage, bath, or food ingredient.


lexentry: eng/minesweeper__Noun__1
written_rep: minesweeper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 扫雷员
sense_list:
A vehicle, device or person with the purpose of removing explosive mines (landmines or water mines). | (uncountable, computing, video games) A logic-based computer game in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on numerical hints.


lexentry: eng/mingle__Verb__1
written_rep: mingle
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 混
sense_list:
(transitive) To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product.


lexentry: eng/minimal_pair__Noun__1
written_rep: minimal pair
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 最小對立體
sense_list:
(phonology) A pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment, used to prove the validity of a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme.


lexentry: eng/minimum_wage__Noun__1
written_rep: minimum wage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 最低工資
sense_list:
(economics) The lowest rate at which an employer must legally pay an employee, usually expressed as pay per hour.


lexentry: eng/minionette__Noun__1
written_rep: minionette
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 小六
sense_list:
(uncountable, US, _, printing, typography, dated) A size of type between nonpareil and minion, standardized as 6½-point.


lexentry: eng/ministry__Noun__1
written_rep: ministry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 部
sense_list:
Government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy, but also as a polity | The complete body of government ministers (whether or not they are in cabinet) under the leadership of a head of government (such as a prime minister)


lexentry: eng/miniver__Noun__1
written_rep: miniver
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 白鼬
sense_list:
A light gray or white fur used to trim the robes of judges or state executives, also used in medieval times.


lexentry: eng/minor__Adjective__1
written_rep: minor
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 未成年人
sense_list:
(music) Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also, _, figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect. | Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:


lexentry: eng/minor__Noun__1
written_rep: minor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 17
trans_list: 未成年人
sense_list:
(Scots law, obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.


lexentry: eng/minor_premise__Noun__1
written_rep: minor premise
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 小音程
sense_list:
(logic) The second premise in a categorical syllogism, whose subject is the minor term and whose predicate is the middle term.


lexentry: eng/minor_third__Noun__1
written_rep: minor third
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 小三度
sense_list:
(music) A musical interval in Western music that approximates a frequency ratio of 6:5, spanning two degrees of the diatonic scale.


lexentry: eng/minstrel__Noun__1
written_rep: minstrel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 吟游诗人
sense_list:
(historical) Originally, an entertainer employed to juggle, play music, sing, tell stories, etc.; a buffoon, a fool, a jester; later, a medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment.


lexentry: eng/mint__Noun__1
written_rep: mint
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 薄荷
sense_list:
A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.


lexentry: eng/minuet__Noun__1
written_rep: minuet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 小步舞曲
sense_list:
A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance. | (music) A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.


lexentry: eng/minus__Preposition__1
written_rep: minus
part_of_speech: preposition
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 减
sense_list:
(mathematics) Made less or reduced by (followed by an expression of number or quantity). [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/minus_sign__Noun__1
written_rep: minus sign
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 零下
sense_list:
(arithmetic) The symbol −, used to denote the operation of subtraction or to indicate that a number is negative.


lexentry: eng/minute__Noun__1
written_rep: minute
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 分钟 | 分
sense_list:
A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds). | (informal) A short but unspecified time period. | A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.


lexentry: eng/minute__Noun__1
written_rep: minute
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 分 | 分钟
sense_list:
A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.


lexentry: eng/minute_of_angle__Noun__1
written_rep: minute of angle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 分
sense_list:
An angle, one sixtieth (1/60th) of a degree, used by gunners as a measurement of accuracy. One minute of angle is roughly equal to 1 inch at 100 yards distance.


lexentry: eng/miracle__Noun__1
written_rep: miracle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 奇跡
sense_list:
An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin. | A fortunate outcome that prevails despite overwhelming odds against it. | An awesome and exceptional example of something.


lexentry: eng/miraculous__Adjective__1
written_rep: miraculous
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 奇跡
sense_list:
By supernatural or uncommon causes, e.g. by a god; that cannot be explained in terms of normal events.


lexentry: eng/mirage__Noun__1
written_rep: mirage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 海市蜃楼 | 海市蜃樓
sense_list:
An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.


lexentry: eng/mirror__Noun__1
written_rep: mirror
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 镜子
sense_list:
A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.


lexentry: eng/mirror__Verb__1
written_rep: mirror
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 複製
sense_list:
(transitive) Of an event, activity, behavior, to be identical to; to be a copy of; to imitate closely.


lexentry: eng/miscarriage__Noun__1
written_rep: miscarriage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 堕胎
sense_list:
(medicine) The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/miscarriage_of_justice__Noun__1
written_rep: miscarriage of justice
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 冤狱
sense_list:
(law) An error at a trial which led to an unjust outcome, such as the conviction of a person for a crime they did not commit.


lexentry: eng/miscarry__Verb__1
written_rep: miscarry
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 失败
sense_list:
To fail to achieve some purpose; to be unsuccessful, to go wrong (of a business, project etc.). [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/mischievous__Adjective__1
written_rep: mischievous
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 小壞蛋
sense_list:
Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved, impish, naughty, disobedient; showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way and liking to have fun by playing harmless tricks on people or doing things they are not supposed to do.


lexentry: eng/misdeed__Noun__1
written_rep: misdeed
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 罪
sense_list:
That which was done that should not have been, ranging from any sin or moral offense to various degrees of crime.


lexentry: eng/misophonia__Noun__1
written_rep: misophonia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 恐音症
sense_list:
A neurological disorder in which negative experiences, such as anger or disgust, are triggered by specific sounds.


lexentry: eng/miss_out__Verb__1
written_rep: miss out
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 出去
sense_list:
(intransitive, or, transitive with 'on') To miss an experience or lose an opportunity, etc. that should not be missed.


lexentry: eng/missile__Noun__1
written_rep: missile
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 导弹
sense_list:
Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.] | (military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]


lexentry: eng/mission__Noun__1
written_rep: mission
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 代表团
sense_list:
(countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself. | (countable, Catholicism) An infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.


lexentry: eng/missionary__Noun__1
written_rep: missionary
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 传教士
sense_list:
(religion) A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or creed (Particularly used in context of Christianity).


lexentry: eng/mistletoe__Noun__1
written_rep: mistletoe
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 槲寄生
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) Any of numerous hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales with white berries that grow in the crowns of apple trees, oaks, and other trees, such as the European mistletoe (Viscum album) and American mistletoe or eastern mistletoe (Phoradendron leucarpum).


lexentry: eng/mistress__Noun__1
written_rep: mistress
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 女主人
sense_list:
A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership. | A female teacher. | The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations. | (archaic) A respectful mode of address to a woman.


lexentry: eng/misunderstanding__Noun__1
written_rep: misunderstanding
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 誤解
sense_list:
A mistake as to the meaning of something or a specific point of view; erroneous interpretation or comprehension; misconception.


lexentry: eng/mitigate__Verb__1
written_rep: mitigate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 减轻
sense_list:
(transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.


lexentry: eng/mitochondrion__Noun__1
written_rep: mitochondrion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 线粒体 | 線粒體
sense_list:
(cytology) A spherical or ovoid organelle found in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells and containing genetic material separate from that of the host; it is responsible for the conversion of food to usable energy in the form of ATP.


lexentry: eng/mitosis__Noun__1
written_rep: mitosis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 有絲分裂
sense_list:
(cytology) The division of a cell nucleus in which the genome is copied and separated into two identical halves. It is normally followed by cell division.


lexentry: eng/mix__Verb__1
written_rep: mix
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 混
sense_list:
(transitive) To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). | (transitive, music) To combine (several tracks).


lexentry: eng/mixer__Noun__1
written_rep: mixer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 搅拌机
sense_list:
One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together. | A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below.


lexentry: eng/mnemonic__Noun__1
written_rep: mnemonic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 助记符
sense_list:
Something (especially a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.) used to help in remembering a thing; a memory aid.


lexentry: eng/mob__Noun__1
written_rep: mob
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: 人群
sense_list:
(Australian Aboriginal) A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.


lexentry: eng/mobile__Noun__1
written_rep: mobile
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 可移动的
sense_list:
(sculpture) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.


lexentry: eng/mock-up__Noun__1
written_rep: mock-up
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 模型
sense_list:
A scale or full-size model of a design or device which is not fully functional, used for teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion, or other purposes.


lexentry: eng/mode__Noun__1
written_rep: mode
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 模式
sense_list:
(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours. | A particular means of accomplishing something.


lexentry: eng/model__Noun__1
written_rep: model
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 模型
sense_list:
A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion. | A representation of a physical object. | A style, type, or design. | The structural design of a complex system. | A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.


lexentry: eng/modem__Noun__1
written_rep: modem
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 调制解调器
sense_list:
(computing) A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog telephone signals and vice versa, allowing computers to communicate over a phone line.


lexentry: eng/modernism__Noun__1
written_rep: modernism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 現代主義
sense_list:
Any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century.


lexentry: eng/modernize__Verb__1
written_rep: modernize
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 现代化
sense_list:
(transitive) To make (something old or outdated) up to date, or modern in style or function by adding or changing equipment, designs, etc.


lexentry: eng/modesty__Noun__1
written_rep: modesty
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 謙虛
sense_list:
The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities. | Moderate behaviour; reserve.


lexentry: eng/modification__Noun__1
written_rep: modification
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 修改
sense_list:
The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/modulate__Verb__1
written_rep: modulate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 移調 | 轉調
sense_list:
(intransitive, music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression


lexentry: eng/module__Noun__1
written_rep: module
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 模块
sense_list:
A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components. | (programming) A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines. | A pre-prepared adventure scenario with related materials for a role-playing game. | (algebra, ring theory) An abelian group equipped with the operation of multiplication by an element of a ring (or another of certain algebraic objects), representing a generalisation of the concept of vector space with scalar multiplication. | (astronautics) An independent self-contained unit of a spacecraft.


lexentry: eng/modulus__Noun__1
written_rep: modulus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 模块
sense_list:
(mathematics) The base with respect to which a congruence is computed. | (mathematics) The absolute value of a complex number.


lexentry: eng/moggy__Noun__1
written_rep: moggy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 胡同猫
sense_list:
(UK, Irish, Commonwealth) A domestic cat, especially (depreciative, _, or, _, derogatory) a non-pedigree or unremarkable cat.


lexentry: eng/mojibake__Noun__1
written_rep: mojibake
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 乱码
sense_list:
(computing) Corrupt characters or letters, especially resulting from being displayed or transferred through an inappropriate character set or encoding.


lexentry: eng/molarity__Noun__1
written_rep: molarity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 體積莫耳濃度
sense_list:
(chemistry) the concentration of a substance in solution, expressed as the number of moles of solute per litre of solution


lexentry: eng/molasses__Noun__1
written_rep: molasses
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 糖蜜
sense_list:
A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (North America) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses.


lexentry: eng/mold__Noun__2
written_rep: mold
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 霉菌
sense_list:
A natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air.


lexentry: eng/molding__Noun__1
written_rep: molding
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 部
sense_list:
(architecture) A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface and to conceal joints, especially between unlike materials.


lexentry: eng/mole__Noun__5
written_rep: mole
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 摩尔
sense_list:
(chemistry, physics) In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains exactly 6.02214076×1023 elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.). Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. [from 1897]


lexentry: eng/mole_cricket__Noun__1
written_rep: mole cricket
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 小狗
sense_list:
Any of various large insects from the family Gryllotalpidae that burrow into moist soil and feed on plant roots.


lexentry: eng/molecular__Adjective__1
written_rep: molecular
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 分子
sense_list:
(chemistry) Relating to, or consisting of, or produced by molecules. | (food) Relating to molecular gastronomy.


lexentry: eng/molecular_formula__Noun__1
written_rep: molecular formula
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 化学式
sense_list:
(chemistry) A notation indicating the number of atoms of each element present in one molecule of a substance.


lexentry: eng/molecule__Noun__1
written_rep: molecule
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 分子
sense_list:
(chemistry) The smallest particle of a specific element or compound that retains the chemical properties of that element or compound; two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds.


lexentry: eng/mollusc__Noun__1
written_rep: mollusc
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 軟體動物
sense_list:
A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces.


lexentry: eng/molybdenum__Noun__1
written_rep: molybdenum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鉬 | 钼
sense_list:
A chemical element (symbol Mo) with an atomic number of 42: a silvery metal, not found as a free element, used in steel alloys.


lexentry: eng/moment__Noun__1
written_rep: moment
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 刻
sense_list:
(historical, unit) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour. | (math) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement. | (colloquial, Internet slang, of a person) The current center of public attention and awe; the most important celebrity in their prime.


lexentry: eng/momentum__Noun__1
written_rep: momentum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 衝力
sense_list:
(physics) Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities. | The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events; a moment.


lexentry: eng/monad__Noun__1
written_rep: monad
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 单子
sense_list:
(philosophy) An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible. | (functional programming) A data type which represents a specific form of computation, along with the operations "return" and "bind".


lexentry: eng/monarchy__Noun__1
written_rep: monarchy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 君主制
sense_list:
A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).


lexentry: eng/money__Noun__1
written_rep: money
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 貨幣
sense_list:
A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).


lexentry: eng/money_cowry__Noun__1
written_rep: money cowry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 货贝
sense_list:
A mollusc of the species Monetaria moneta (syn. Cypraea moneta), the shells of which were formerly used as money by populations in Asia, Africa, and Oceania.


lexentry: eng/money_laundering__Noun__1
written_rep: money laundering
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 洗錢
sense_list:
The act of engaging in transactions designed to obscure the origin of money, especially money that has been obtained illegally. [from early 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/money_order__Noun__1
written_rep: money order
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 匯票
sense_list:
(banking, finance) A directive to pay a prespecified amount of money from prepaid funds, making it a more trusted method of payment than a check.


lexentry: eng/mongoose__Noun__1
written_rep: mongoose
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 獴
sense_list:
Any of several species of generalist predatory carnivores in the family Herpestidae; the various species range in size from rats to large cats. Indian mongooses are predators of venomous snakes, though other mongoose species have similar habits.


lexentry: eng/monism__Noun__1
written_rep: monism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 一元论
sense_list:
(philosophy, religion) The doctrine of the oneness and unity of reality, despite the appearance of diversity in the world.


lexentry: eng/monitor__Noun__1
written_rep: monitor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 屏幕
sense_list:
(computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.


lexentry: eng/monitor_lizard__Noun__1
written_rep: monitor lizard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 巨蜥
sense_list:
Any of various large carnivorous lizards of the family Varanidae, all of whose extant species are of genus Varanus, native to Africa, Asia and Australia.


lexentry: eng/monoamine_oxidase__Noun__1
written_rep: monoamine oxidase
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 单胺氧化酶
sense_list:
(enzyme) Either of two enzymes, found in the outer membrane of mitochondria, that degrade biogenic amines and are thus responsible for the destruction of transmitter substances at neuronal synapses.


lexentry: eng/monogram__Noun__3
written_rep: monogram
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 交織字母
sense_list:
A design or motif composed of one or more letters, often intertwined, used as an identifying mark of an individual or institution; the letters are usually the initials of their names.


lexentry: eng/monograph__Noun__1
written_rep: monograph
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 专著
sense_list:
A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.


lexentry: eng/monologue__Noun__1
written_rep: monologue
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 单口
sense_list:
(drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.


lexentry: eng/monomial__Noun__1
written_rep: monomial
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 單項式
sense_list:
(mathematics) A single term consisting of a product of numbers and variables with positive integer exponents.


lexentry: eng/monopoly__Noun__1
written_rep: monopoly
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 專賣
sense_list:
An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession. | The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control.


lexentry: eng/monotonicity__Noun__1
written_rep: monotonicity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 单调
sense_list:
(analysis) Said of a positive measure: the property of a positive measure of a measure space, that given two measurable sets where the first set is contained in the second one, then the measure of the first set must be less than or equal to the measure of the second set.


lexentry: eng/monotony__Noun__1
written_rep: monotony
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 单调
sense_list:
Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety. | (mathematics) The property of a monotonic function.


lexentry: eng/monotype__Noun__1
written_rep: monotype
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 单版画
sense_list:
(arts, printing) A print made by creating the design using oil paint or printer's ink on metal or glass, then transferring the image directly to paper. | A keyboard-operated typesetting and casting machine that makes and sets separate characters.


lexentry: eng/monsoon__Noun__1
written_rep: monsoon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 季风
sense_list:
Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season. | Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions. | Entire meteorological systems with such characteristics.


lexentry: eng/monster__Noun__1
written_rep: monster
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 妖怪
sense_list:
A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or mythical kind. | A bizarre or whimsical creature. | A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal. | (figuratively, humorous) A badly behaved person, especially a child; a brat. | (informal) Something very or unusually large. | (informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.


lexentry: eng/monster_truck__Noun__1
written_rep: monster truck
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 怪獸卡車
sense_list:
A large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based on a lifted pickup truck with oversized wheels and modified suspension.


lexentry: eng/monstrance__Noun__1
written_rep: monstrance
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 圣体光
sense_list:
(Christianity) An ornamental, often precious receptacle, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the sacramental bread (consecrated host) is placed for Eucharistic adoration.


lexentry: eng/montage__Noun__1
written_rep: montage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 集会
sense_list:
(countable) A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc. [from early 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/moon_bag__Noun__1
written_rep: moon bag
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 腰包
sense_list:
A small pouch attached to a belt that is worn on the outside of clothing around the waist and used for holding small personal items.


lexentry: eng/mooncake__Noun__1
written_rep: mooncake
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 月饼
sense_list:
A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October). [from late 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/moorhen__Noun__1
written_rep: moorhen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 黑水鸡
sense_list:
Any of various medium-sized water birds of the genus Gallinula, of the rail family, that feed in open water margins.


lexentry: eng/moose__Noun__1
written_rep: moose
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 驼鹿
sense_list:
The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.


lexentry: eng/mop__Noun__1
written_rep: mop
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 拖把
sense_list:
An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.


lexentry: eng/moped__Noun__1
written_rep: moped
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 摩托車
sense_list:
A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit.


lexentry: eng/mora__Noun__1
written_rep: mora
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 音拍
sense_list:
(phonology) A unit of syllable weight used in phonology, by which stress, foot structure, or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g. Japanese).


lexentry: eng/moral__Adjective__1
written_rep: moral
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 有关道德的
sense_list:
Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.


lexentry: eng/moral_police__Noun__1
written_rep: moral police
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 伊斯蘭宗教警察 | 穆塔韋
sense_list:
A police force in some Islamic countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Malaysia that enforces religious laws by punishing sinners.


lexentry: eng/morale__Noun__1
written_rep: morale
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 有关道德的
sense_list:
The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.


lexentry: eng/morality__Noun__1
written_rep: morality
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 伦理
sense_list:
(uncountable) Recognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.


lexentry: eng/mordacious__Adjective__1
written_rep: mordacious
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 銳利
sense_list:
Biting, causing a physical bite or sting; corrosive | sharp or caustic in style or tone. | Sharp in intent, sarcastic


lexentry: eng/mordent__Noun__1
written_rep: mordent
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 波音
sense_list:
(music) An ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it.


lexentry: eng/more__Determiner__1
written_rep: more
part_of_speech: determiner
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 更多
sense_list:
in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.) | in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.) | Additional; further. | Bigger, stronger, or more valuable.


lexentry: eng/morel__Noun__1
written_rep: morel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 羊肚菌
sense_list:
A true morel; any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium.


lexentry: eng/morning__Noun__1
written_rep: morning
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 上午 | 早上
sense_list:
The early part of the day, especially from midnight to noon. [from 13th c.] | (obsolete) That part of the day from dawn until the main meal (typically in late afternoon). [18th–19th c.]


lexentry: eng/morning_star__Noun__1
written_rep: morning star
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 启明
sense_list:
(countable, weapon) A weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes attached rigidly to a staff, in contrast to a flail.


lexentry: eng/moron__Noun__1
written_rep: moron
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 喀尔喀语
sense_list:
(psychology, dated, originally) A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70. | (philosophy) A hypothetical particle whose existence and configuration can make a moral judgment true.


lexentry: eng/morpheme__Noun__1
written_rep: morpheme
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 語素
sense_list:
(linguistic morphology) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning. It may be a letter, a syllable, or otherwise.


lexentry: eng/morphine__Noun__1
written_rep: morphine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 嗎啡
sense_list:
(biochemistry, pharmaceutical drug) A crystalline alkaloid (4,5-epoxy-17-methyl-7,8-didehydromorphinan-3,6-diol), extracted from opium, the salts of which are soluble in water and are used as analgesics, anaesthetics and sedatives; it is one of a group of morphine alkaloids.


lexentry: eng/morphology__Noun__1
written_rep: morphology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 形态学
sense_list:
(biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants. | (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks). | (uncountable) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:


lexentry: eng/mortality__Noun__1
written_rep: mortality
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 死亡率
sense_list:
The state of being susceptible to death. | The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate. | (figuratively) Death.


lexentry: eng/mortar__Noun__1
written_rep: mortar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 研缽
sense_list:
(countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle. | (countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories. | (countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/mortgage__Noun__1
written_rep: mortgage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 抵押
sense_list:
(legal) A special form of secured loan where the purpose of the loan must be specified to the lender, to purchase assets that must be fixed (not movable) property, such as a house or piece of farm land. The assets are registered as the legal property of the borrower but the lender can seize them and dispose of them if they are not satisfied with the manner in which the repayment of the loan is conducted by the borrower. Once the loan is fully repaid, the lender loses this right of seizure and the assets are then deemed to be unencumbered.


lexentry: eng/mortify__Verb__1
written_rep: mortify
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 腌
sense_list:
(transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/morula__Noun__1
written_rep: morula
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 桑葚胚
sense_list:
(embryology) A spherical mass of blastomeres that forms following the splitting of a zygote; it becomes the blastula


lexentry: eng/mosaic__Noun__1
written_rep: mosaic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鑲嵌藝術
sense_list:
A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture. | (genetics) An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.


lexentry: eng/mosquito__Noun__1
written_rep: mosquito
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 蚊子
sense_list:
A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria, dengue and yellow fever.


lexentry: eng/moss__Noun__1
written_rep: moss
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 苔藓
sense_list:
Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).


lexentry: eng/most__Determiner__1
written_rep: most
part_of_speech: determiner
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 多数
sense_list:
the comparatively largest number of (construed with the definite article) | the majority of; more than half of (construed without the definite article)


lexentry: eng/moth__Noun__1
written_rep: moth
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 蛾
sense_list:
Any flying insect of the order Lepidoptera not in the superfamily Papilionoidea, most species of which are nocturnal and can be distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.


lexentry: eng/mothball__Noun__1
written_rep: mothball
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 萘
sense_list:
(usually, in plural) A small ball of chemical pesticide (typically naphthalene) and deodorant placed in or around clothing and other articles susceptible to damage from mold or moth larvae in order to protect them from this damage.


lexentry: eng/mother__Noun__1
written_rep: mother
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 母亲 | 母親
sense_list:
A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).


lexentry: eng/mother_ship__Noun__1
written_rep: mother ship
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 母船
sense_list:
A vessel, aircraft or spacecraft that serves or carries a smaller vessel or vessels that operate independently from it.


lexentry: eng/motherboard__Noun__1
written_rep: motherboard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 主板
sense_list:
(computer hardware) The primary circuit board of a personal computer, containing the circuitry for the central processing unit, keyboard, mouse and monitor, together with slots for other devices.


lexentry: eng/motherfucker__Noun__1
written_rep: motherfucker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 祖赫語
sense_list:
(vulgar) An extremely intense experience, often but not always negative. | (vulgar, literally) One who engages in incest with their mother. | (vulgar, literally) One who engages in sex with a mother, not necessarily one's own.


lexentry: eng/motif__Noun__1
written_rep: motif
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 动机
sense_list:
A decorative figure that is repeated in a design or pattern. | (biochemistry) In a nucleotide or aminoacid sequence, pattern that is widespread and has, or is conjectured to have, a biological significance.


lexentry: eng/motile__Adjective__1
written_rep: motile
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 活动
sense_list:
(physiology) In organs: having the power to move their contents, or to change their shape or tension by writhing or contracting as required by their particular physiological functions.


lexentry: eng/motion__Noun__1
written_rep: motion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 乐章
sense_list:
(uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another. | (philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.


lexentry: eng/motive__Noun__1
written_rep: motive
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 動機
sense_list:
(law) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour. [from 18th c.] | (architecture, fine arts, music) .


lexentry: eng/motor_vehicle__Noun__1
written_rep: motor vehicle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 機動車
sense_list:
Any land-based means of transportation in the form of a machine that operates primarily through a motor to provide power to rotate the tires.


lexentry: eng/motorcycle__Noun__1
written_rep: motorcycle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 摩托車
sense_list:
An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.


lexentry: eng/motorway__Noun__1
written_rep: motorway
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 公路
sense_list:
(UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Queensland, New South Wales) A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.


lexentry: eng/moult__Verb__1
written_rep: moult
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 脫衣
sense_list:
(intransitive) To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one.


lexentry: eng/mound__Noun__1
written_rep: mound
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 丘
sense_list:
A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.


lexentry: eng/mount__Verb__1
written_rep: mount
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 下車
sense_list:
(obsolete, transitive) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.


lexentry: eng/mountain__Noun__1
written_rep: mountain
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 山
sense_list:
(countable) An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit. [from 12th c.] | (countable) Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/mountainous__Adjective__1
written_rep: mountainous
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 多山
sense_list:
Having many mountains; characterized by mountains; of the nature of a mountain; rough (terrain); rocky.


lexentry: eng/mourning__Noun__1
written_rep: mourning
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 丧
sense_list:
The act of expressing or feeling sorrow or regret; lamentation. | Feeling or expressing sorrow over someone's death. | The traditional clothes worn by those who mourn (in Western societies, typically coloured black).


lexentry: eng/mouse__Noun__1
written_rep: mouse
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鼠 | 老鼠
sense_list:
Any small rodent of the genus Mus. | (computing) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.


lexentry: eng/mousebird__Noun__1
written_rep: mousebird
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鼠鸟目
sense_list:
Any of a group of arboreal birds of the family Coliidae within the order Coliiformes, confined to sub-Saharan Africa, which build cup-shaped nests of twigs.


lexentry: eng/mouth__Noun__1
written_rep: mouth
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 口 | 嘴
sense_list:
The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.


lexentry: eng/move__Verb__1
written_rep: move
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 动
sense_list:
(transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another


lexentry: eng/movement__Noun__1
written_rep: movement
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 乐章
sense_list:
Physical motion between points in space. | A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals. | (music) A large division of a larger composition.


lexentry: eng/movement_control_order__Noun__1
written_rep: movement control order
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 行動管制令
sense_list:
(Malaysia) Any of a series of national quarantine and cordon sanitaire measures imposed by the Malaysian government to halt the spread of COVID-19.


lexentry: eng/movie__Noun__1
written_rep: movie
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 电影
sense_list:
(chiefly, North America, AU, NZ) A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion; a film.


lexentry: eng/moving_walkway__Noun__1
written_rep: moving walkway
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 電動步道
sense_list:
(US) A slow conveyor belt that transports people horizontally or on an incline in a similar manner to an escalator.


lexentry: eng/mozzarella__Noun__1
written_rep: mozzarella
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 马苏里拉
sense_list:
Soft Italian or Italian-style cheese made from cow's or buffalo's milk and commonly used as a pizza topping and in salads etc.


lexentry: eng/mpox__Noun__1
written_rep: mpox
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 猴痘
sense_list:
(disease) A viral disease, of primates and some other mammals, related to smallpox, caused by Orthopoxvirus monkeypox.


lexentry: eng/mucous_membrane__Noun__1
written_rep: mucous membrane
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 黏膜
sense_list:
(anatomy) A membrane which secretes mucus. It forms the lining of various body passages that communicate with the air, such as the respiratory, genitourinary, and alimentary tracts including the mouth, nasal passages, vagina, and urethra.


lexentry: eng/mud__Noun__1
written_rep: mud
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 泥巴
sense_list:
(figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.


lexentry: eng/mudra__Noun__1
written_rep: mudra
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 手印
sense_list:
(dance, arts) Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography.


lexentry: eng/muffin__Noun__1
written_rep: muffin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 玛芬
sense_list:
(British) A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten. | A cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but typically without frosting, eaten especially for breakfast (in contrast to a cupcake, which is a dessert).


lexentry: eng/muffin_top__Noun__1
written_rep: muffin top
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 輪胎
sense_list:
(colloquial, sometimes, _, derogatory) The roll of flesh that bulges over the top of excessively tight trousers.


lexentry: eng/muffle__Verb__1
written_rep: muffle
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 覆盖
sense_list:
(transitive) To wrap (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection; often with up.


lexentry: eng/mufti__Noun__1
written_rep: mufti
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 便服
sense_list:
(uncountable, AU, British, New Zealand) A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform.


lexentry: eng/mug_shot__Noun__1
written_rep: mug shot
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 肖像
sense_list:
(law enforcement) A photograph of a person's face, especially one taken by the police during an arrest.


lexentry: eng/mulatto__Noun__1
written_rep: mulatto
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 昂列咖啡
sense_list:
(historical, now, sometimes, pejorative) A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents.


lexentry: eng/mulch__Noun__1
written_rep: mulch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 覆盖物
sense_list:
(agriculture, horticulture) Any material used to cover the top layer of soil to protect, insulate, or decorate it, or to discourage weeds or retain moisture.


lexentry: eng/mullet__Noun__1
written_rep: mullet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鲻鱼
sense_list:
A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (red mullets or goatfish).


lexentry: eng/multiculturalism__Noun__1
written_rep: multiculturalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 多元文化主義
sense_list:
The characteristics of an organization, society, city etc. which has many different ethnic or national cultures mingling freely; political or social policies which support or encourage such coexistence. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/multilateralism__Noun__1
written_rep: multilateralism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 多邊主義
sense_list:
A system by which nations consult others in matters of foreign policy, by way of organisations such as the United Nations.


lexentry: eng/multimeter__Noun__1
written_rep: multimeter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 万用表
sense_list:
An electronic measuring instrument that combines multiple functions; a combined voltmeter, ammeter and ohmmeter.


lexentry: eng/multiple_sclerosis__Noun__1
written_rep: multiple sclerosis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 多发性硬化症
sense_list:
(pathology) A chronic non-contagious disease of the brain and spinal cord characterized by changes in sensation, visual problems, weakness, depression, difficulties with coordination and speech, impaired mobility and disability.


lexentry: eng/multiplication__Noun__1
written_rep: multiplication
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 乘法
sense_list:
(countable, arithmetic) A calculation involving multiplication. | The process of multiplying or increasing in number; increase.


lexentry: eng/multiplication_table__Noun__1
written_rep: multiplication table
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 乘法表
sense_list:
(arithmetic) A table showing the products of each of the integers from 1 to 10 (or, especially formerly, 12) with each of the integers from 1 to 10 (or 12).


lexentry: eng/multiplier__Noun__1
written_rep: multiplier
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 乘數
sense_list:
(arithmetic) A number by which another (the multiplicand) is to be multiplied. | (grammar) An adjective indicating the number of times something is to be multiplied.


lexentry: eng/mummy__Noun__1
written_rep: mummy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 木乃伊
sense_list:
(countable, by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a stock character in horror films. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/mumps__Noun__1
written_rep: mumps
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 腮腺炎
sense_list:
(pathology) A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.


lexentry: eng/municipal__Adjective__1
written_rep: municipal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 城市
sense_list:
Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).


lexentry: eng/municipality__Noun__1
written_rep: municipality
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 市政當局
sense_list:
A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.


lexentry: eng/muntjac__Noun__1
written_rep: muntjac
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 麂
sense_list:
Any of various species of east Asian deer of the genus Muntiacus, having short antlers and a barking call.


lexentry: eng/murder__Noun__1
written_rep: murder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 殺人
sense_list:
(uncountable, legal, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The act of committing or abetting a crime that results in the killing of a person, regardless of intent, and even if the committer or abettor is not the one who killed the person: felony murder.


lexentry: eng/murderous__Adjective__1
written_rep: murderous
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 兇手
sense_list:
Of a person: intending or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty, homicidal. | (often, figuratively) Of an object: used to commit murder; capable of causing death; deadly, fatal.


lexentry: eng/murine__Adjective__1
written_rep: murine
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 老鼠
sense_list:
More generally, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of any rodent up to the taxonomic rank of Muroidea, most often with reference to mice and rats of the subfamily Murinae.


lexentry: eng/murmur__Noun__1
written_rep: murmur
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 嘈杂声
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) Any low, indistinct sound, like that of running water. | (cardiology, medicine) The sound made by any condition which produces a noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart. | A muttered complaint or protest; the expression of dissatisfaction in a low muttering voice; any expression of complaint or discontent.


lexentry: eng/murrain__Noun__1
written_rep: murrain
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 鼠疫
sense_list:
(countable, veterinary disease, chiefly, historical) Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle or other livestock, such as anthrax, babesiosis, or rinderpest; or a particular epizootic thereof; also, an infectious disease affecting other animals, such as poultry.


lexentry: eng/muscat__Noun__1
written_rep: muscat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 馬斯喀特
sense_list:
A white grape variety; used as table grapes and for making raisins and sweet wine. | The muscatel wine made from these grapes. | The vine bearing this fruit.


lexentry: eng/muscle_memory__Noun__1
written_rep: muscle memory
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 肌肉記憶
sense_list:
(physiology) The ability to reproduce a particular movement using subconscious neuromuscular control which is acquired as a result of the physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of the movement.


lexentry: eng/museum__Noun__1
written_rep: museum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 博物馆 | 博物館
sense_list:
A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.


lexentry: eng/music__Noun__1
written_rep: music
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 音乐 | 音樂
sense_list:
A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of harmony, melody, rhythm, tempo, etc., often to convey a mood. | (figuratively) Any interesting or pleasing sounds.


lexentry: eng/music_box__Noun__1
written_rep: music box
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 八音盒
sense_list:
A box that generates or plays music, particularly one using mechanical means rather than electronic, generally using a cylinder or disk containing the music.


lexentry: eng/music_theory__Noun__1
written_rep: music theory
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 乐理
sense_list:
The field of study dealing with how music works, typically examining the language and notation of music, the patterns and structures in composers' techniques, and so on.


lexentry: eng/musical__Noun__1
written_rep: musical
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 歌舞片
sense_list:
A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.


lexentry: eng/musician__Noun__1
written_rep: musician
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 音乐家
sense_list:
A composer, conductor, or performer of music; specifically, a person who sings and/or plays a musical instrument as a hobby, occupation, or profession.


lexentry: eng/musicology__Noun__1
written_rep: musicology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 音乐学
sense_list:
(music) The scholarly or scientific study of music, as in historical research, music theory, or the physical nature of sound.


lexentry: eng/musk__Noun__1
written_rep: musk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 麝香
sense_list:
A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.


lexentry: eng/musketeer__Noun__1
written_rep: musketeer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鸟铳手
sense_list:
(military, historical) A foot soldier armed with a musket. | (military, historical) In 17th- and 18th-century France, a member of the royal household bodyguard.


lexentry: eng/mussel__Noun__1
written_rep: mussel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 淡菜
sense_list:
A saltwater mussel, usually edible, of the order Mytilida in subclass Pteriomorphia. | Any of several groups of bivalve shellfish with elongated, asymmetrical shells.


lexentry: eng/must__Verb__1
written_rep: must
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 很可能
sense_list:
To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence. | Used to indicate that something is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.


lexentry: eng/mustard_gas__Noun__1
written_rep: mustard gas
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 芥子毒气
sense_list:
A highly cytotoxic vesicant, C4H8Cl2S, used in World War I that is known to cause skin burns, blisters, inflammation, edema, and potentially other respiratory effects.


lexentry: eng/mustelid__Noun__1
written_rep: mustelid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 貂
sense_list:
Any carnivorous mammal of the diverse weasel family Mustelidae, which also includes badgers, otters, martens, mink and wolverines.


lexentry: eng/muster__Noun__1
written_rep: muster
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 复习
sense_list:
(military) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/muster__Verb__1
written_rep: muster
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 举行
sense_list:
(intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/mute__Adjective__1
written_rep: mute
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 啞巴
sense_list:
Not having the power of speech; dumb. [from 15th c.] | Silent; not making a sound. [from 15th c.] | Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.


lexentry: eng/mute__Noun__1
written_rep: mute
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 啞巴
sense_list:
(obsolete, theatre) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. [16th–19th c.] | A person who does not have the power of speech. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/mute_swan__Noun__1
written_rep: mute swan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 疣鼻天鵝
sense_list:
A species of white plumaged swan, Cygnus olor, having a distinctive orange bill with a black tip, native to Eurasia and widely introduced elsewhere as an ornamental waterbird.


lexentry: eng/mutiny__Noun__1
written_rep: mutiny
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 煽惑叛變
sense_list:
An organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers.


lexentry: eng/mutualism__Noun__1
written_rep: mutualism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 互利共生
sense_list:
(ecology) Any interaction between two species that benefits both; typically involves the exchange of substances or services.


lexentry: eng/muzzle__Verb__1
written_rep: muzzle
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 给
sense_list:
(transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.


lexentry: eng/my_Lord__Noun__1
written_rep: my Lord
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 先生
sense_list:
(UK) Used in direct address to peers of the realm, usually now excluding dukes and the Lords Spiritual.


lexentry: eng/mycelium__Noun__1
written_rep: mycelium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 菌丝体
sense_list:
The vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike hyphae, often underground.


lexentry: eng/mycorrhiza__Noun__1
written_rep: mycorrhiza
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 菌根
sense_list:
(ecology, botany, mycology) A plant root formed in symbiosis with a fungus; the symbiosis between the mycelium of a fungus and the roots of a plant. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/myoga__Noun__1
written_rep: myoga
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 蘘荷
sense_list:
A Japanese type of ginger, Zingiber mioga, of which only the shoots and flower buds are used in cooking.


lexentry: eng/myrrh__Noun__1
written_rep: myrrh
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 沒藥
sense_list:
A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species Commiphora myrrha, used as perfume, incense or medicine.


lexentry: eng/myself__Pronoun__1
written_rep: myself
part_of_speech: pronoun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 一
sense_list:
Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described. [from 10th c.]


lexentry: eng/myself__Pronoun__1
written_rep: myself
part_of_speech: pronoun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 我自己
sense_list:
(proscribed) Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself. [from 10th c.]


lexentry: eng/mystery_play__Noun__1
written_rep: mystery play
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 神秘
sense_list:
(performing arts) A medieval dramatic performance depicting events from Christian scriptures, especially events from the life of Jesus Christ.


lexentry: eng/mysticism__Noun__1
written_rep: mysticism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 神秘主義
sense_list:
The beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics. | A doctrine of direct communication or spiritual intuition of divine truth.


lexentry: eng/myth__Noun__1
written_rep: myth
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 迷思
sense_list:
A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality.


lexentry: eng/mythology__Noun__1
written_rep: mythology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 神话
sense_list:
(countable, _, and, _, uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.


lexentry: eng/mâche__Noun__1
written_rep: mâche
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 萵苣
sense_list:
Valerianella locusta, a small dicot annual plant of the family Caprifoliaceae often cultivated as a salad green or herb.


lexentry: eng/nadir__Noun__1
written_rep: nadir
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 天底
sense_list:
The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.


lexentry: eng/nag__Verb__1
written_rep: nag
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 责骂
sense_list:
(ambitransitive) To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.


lexentry: eng/nail__Noun__1
written_rep: nail
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 钉子
sense_list:
A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.


lexentry: eng/naked__Adjective__1
written_rep: naked
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 裸体
sense_list:
Glib, without decoration, put bluntly. | Lacking (something) or devoid (of something) [with of]. | (of land, rocks, or plants) Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.


lexentry: eng/name__Noun__1
written_rep: name
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 名字 | 名
sense_list:
Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing. | A reputation.


lexentry: eng/nanotechnology__Noun__1
written_rep: nanotechnology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 纳米技术
sense_list:
The science and technology of creating nanoparticles and of manufacturing machines which have sizes within the range of nanometres (1–100 nm).


lexentry: eng/napa_cabbage__Noun__1
written_rep: napa cabbage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 大白菜
sense_list:
A species of Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, commonly used as an ingredient in East-Asian cuisines.


lexentry: eng/napalm__Noun__1
written_rep: napalm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 凝固汽油弹
sense_list:
A highly flammable, viscous substance, designed to stick to the body while burning, used in warfare as an incendiary especially in wooded areas. [from 1942]


lexentry: eng/napkin__Noun__1
written_rep: napkin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 餐巾
sense_list:
A serviette; a (usually rectangular) piece of cloth or paper used at the table for wiping the mouth and hands for cleanliness while eating.


lexentry: eng/narcissus__Noun__1
written_rep: narcissus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 水仙
sense_list:
Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil


lexentry: eng/narcolepsy__Noun__1
written_rep: narcolepsy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 發作性嗜睡病
sense_list:
(pathology) A disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable attacks of deep sleep, often brief, sometimes accompanied by paralysis and hallucinations.


lexentry: eng/narcotic__Noun__1
written_rep: narcotic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 毒
sense_list:
(pharmaceutical drug) Any substance or drug that reduces pain, induces sleep and may alter mood or behaviour; in some contexts, especially in reference to the opiates-and-opioids class, especially in reference to illegal drugs, and often both.


lexentry: eng/narration__Noun__1
written_rep: narration
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 叙事
sense_list:
The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating. | That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.


lexentry: eng/narrow__Adjective__1
written_rep: narrow
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 窄
sense_list:
Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.


lexentry: eng/narutomaki__Noun__1
written_rep: narutomaki
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鸣门卷
sense_list:
A type of kamaboko (蒲鉾), a cured fish surimi product made in Japan. Prepared in loaves or rolls, then sliced and added to dishes as a garnish.


lexentry: eng/narwhal__Noun__1
written_rep: narwhal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 一角鲸
sense_list:
Monodon monoceros, an Arctic cetacean that grows to about 20 feet (6 meters) long, the male having a single horn-like tusk, a twisted, pointed canine tooth that projects forward.


lexentry: eng/nasal_cavity__Noun__1
written_rep: nasal cavity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鼻腔
sense_list:
(anatomy) In higher vertebrates, a large air-filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face.


lexentry: eng/nasturtium__Noun__1
written_rep: nasturtium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 旱莲草
sense_list:
The popular name of any of the plants in the Tropaeolum genus of flowering plants native to south and central America.


lexentry: eng/nation-state__Noun__1
written_rep: nation-state
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 民族國家
sense_list:
(politics) A political entity (a state) associated with a common national identity (historically, culturally, or ethnically; as with a nation) and a sovereign territorial unit.


lexentry: eng/nation__Noun__1
written_rep: nation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 國民
sense_list:
(collective) A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. | (international, _, legal, metonymically) A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymically, proscribed) a country.


lexentry: eng/national__Adjective__1
written_rep: national
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 国家
sense_list:
Pertaining to a nation or country, especially as a whole; affecting, shared by, or existing throughout all of a nation. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/national_day__Noun__1
written_rep: national day
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 国庆节
sense_list:
A day marking a country's establishment as a sovereign entity, typically a celebration of its independence, revolution or former ruler.


lexentry: eng/national_park__Noun__1
written_rep: national park
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 国家公园 | 國家公園
sense_list:
An area of land that is not built upon, but reserved by the national government for conservation of nature and usually also for recreational use.


lexentry: eng/nationalism__Noun__1
written_rep: nationalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 民族主义 | 民族主義
sense_list:
A more extreme form of patriotism; the idea of a more extreme support for one's country, people or culture. | (UK, Ireland) Support for the union of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.


lexentry: eng/nationality__Noun__1
written_rep: nationality
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 國籍
sense_list:
National origin or identity; legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/nationalize__Verb__1
written_rep: nationalize
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 国有化
sense_list:
(archaic) To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.


lexentry: eng/nativity_scene__Noun__1
written_rep: nativity scene
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 槽
sense_list:
(Christianity) A depiction—which may be pictorial, dramatic, or by means of figurines—of the birth of Jesus Christ in a manger, as described in the New Testament account.


lexentry: eng/natural__Adjective__1
written_rep: natural
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 自然
sense_list:
Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature. [from 14th c.] | Pertaining to death brought about by disease or old age, rather than by violence, accident etc. [from 16th c.] | Pertaining to birth or descent; native. | Related genetically but not legally to one's father; born out of wedlock, illegitimate. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/natural_gas__Noun__1
written_rep: natural gas
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 天然气
sense_list:
A mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons associated with petroleum deposits; mostly methane with smaller amounts of ethane, propane and butane; principally used as a fuel.


lexentry: eng/natural_history__Noun__1
written_rep: natural history
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 博物学
sense_list:
The study of all living things, especially their origins, evolution and interrelationships. | The study of all natural phenomena: botany, zoology, mineralogy, etc.


lexentry: eng/natural_language__Noun__1
written_rep: natural language
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 自然语言
sense_list:
(retronym, linguistics) Any human language that has evolved naturally in a community, usually in contrast to computer programming languages, to controlled natural languages, and to constructed languages such as Esperanto (although constructed languages are subject to change by natural forces among fluent speakers).


lexentry: eng/natural_logarithm__Noun__1
written_rep: natural logarithm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 自然对数
sense_list:
(mathematics) The logarithm in base e: either the function that given x returns y such that ey = x, or the value of y given by the function.


lexentry: eng/natural_numbers__Noun__1
written_rep: natural numbers
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 自然數
sense_list:
(mathematics) The set of positive integers, {1, 2, 3, ...}. | (mathematics, computer science) The set of non-negative integers, {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.


lexentry: eng/natural_resource__Noun__1
written_rep: natural resource
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 資源
sense_list:
Any source of wealth that occurs naturally, especially surface water, groundwater, minerals, fossil fuels, timber, wild game, soil quality, and air quality.


lexentry: eng/natural_science__Noun__1
written_rep: natural science
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 博物
sense_list:
Any science involved in studying phenomena or laws of the physical world: physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and so on.


lexentry: eng/natural_selection__Noun__1
written_rep: natural selection
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 自然选择
sense_list:
(evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.


lexentry: eng/nature__Noun__1
written_rep: nature
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 自然 | 大自然
sense_list:
(uncountable, often, _, capitalized) The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distinct from human conventions, art, and technology. | The essential or innate characteristics of a person or thing which will always tend to manifest, especially in contrast to specific contexts, reason, religious duty, upbringing, and personal pretense or effort.


lexentry: eng/naturism__Noun__1
written_rep: naturism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 裸体主义
sense_list:
The belief in or practice of going nude in social settings, often in mixed-gender groups, specifically either in cultures where this is not the norm or for health reasons.


lexentry: eng/nausea__Noun__1
written_rep: nausea
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 惡心
sense_list:
A feeling of illness or discomfort in the digestive system, usually characterized by a strong urge to vomit.


lexentry: eng/nautical_mile__Noun__1
written_rep: nautical mile
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 海里
sense_list:
A unit of length corresponding approximately to one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian. By international agreement it is exactly 1,852 metres (approximately 6,076 feet or 1.151 statute mile). | (historical) Synonym of sea mile, a historical Scandinavian unit of distance equal to about 4 nmi.


lexentry: eng/nave__Noun__1
written_rep: nave
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中殿
sense_list:
(architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.


lexentry: eng/navel__Noun__1
written_rep: navel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 肚臍
sense_list:
(anatomy) The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.


lexentry: eng/navigate__Verb__1
written_rep: navigate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 行船
sense_list:
(transitive) To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course. | (intransitive) To travel over water in a ship; to sail.


lexentry: eng/navigation__Noun__1
written_rep: navigation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 航海
sense_list:
(uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship. | (uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.


lexentry: eng/navigator__Noun__1
written_rep: navigator
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 航海者
sense_list:
A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft. | A sea explorer.


lexentry: eng/navy__Noun__1
written_rep: navy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 海军
sense_list:
(countable) A country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel. | (countable) A governmental department in charge of a country's maritime military force.


lexentry: eng/nay__Adverb__1
written_rep: nay
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 嗯
sense_list:
(archaic, otherwise, jocular) Or rather, or should I say; moreover (introducing a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one). [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/near-death_experience__Noun__1
written_rep: near-death experience
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 濒死经验
sense_list:
A sensation of detachment from one's body, the presence of a tunnel of light, the apparent viewing of one's own body from on high, and similar manifestations, experienced by people whose heart and brain have temporarily ceased to function.


lexentry: eng/neat__Adjective__1
written_rep: neat
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 太阳
sense_list:
Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.


lexentry: eng/neat__Adjective__1
written_rep: neat
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 純潔
sense_list:
(chemistry) Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.


lexentry: eng/nebula__Noun__1
written_rep: nebula
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 星云
sense_list:
(astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).


lexentry: eng/necessary__Adjective__1
written_rep: necessary
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 必要的
sense_list:
Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty. | Unavoidable, inevitable. | (obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.


lexentry: eng/necessitate__Verb__1
written_rep: necessitate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 需要
sense_list:
(transitive) To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about. [from early 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/necessity_knows_no_law__Proverb__1
written_rep: necessity knows no law
part_of_speech: proverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 饥不择食
sense_list:
A person who is in great need of something will find a way to obtain it, and violate the law if needed.


lexentry: eng/necklace__Noun__1
written_rep: necklace
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 项链
sense_list:
(jewelry) An article of jewelry that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls, gems, beads or shells, and sometimes having a pendant attached.


lexentry: eng/necrosis__Noun__1
written_rep: necrosis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 坏死
sense_list:
(pathology) The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.


lexentry: eng/nectarine__Noun__1
written_rep: nectarine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 油桃
sense_list:
A cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin. | (obsolete) A nectar-like liquid medicine.


lexentry: eng/needle__Noun__1
written_rep: needle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 針
sense_list:
A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc. | (informal) A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus. | (entomology) Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Synlestes, endemic to Australia.


lexentry: eng/nefarious__Adjective__1
written_rep: nefarious
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 恶
sense_list:
Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.


lexentry: eng/negative__Adjective__1
written_rep: negative
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 否定
sense_list:
Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable. | (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles [from the 18th c.] | (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.


lexentry: eng/negligence__Noun__1
written_rep: negligence
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 玩忽职守
sense_list:
(legal, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.


lexentry: eng/negligible__Adjective__1
written_rep: negligible
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 可忽视
sense_list:
Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.


lexentry: eng/negotiate__Verb__1
written_rep: negotiate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 談判
sense_list:
(intransitive) To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement. | (transitive) To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement. | (transitive) To succeed in coping with, getting over or navigate a hazard or obstacle.


lexentry: eng/neighborhood__Noun__1
written_rep: neighborhood
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 邻居
sense_list:
The residential area near one's home. | The inhabitants of a residential area. | (chiefly, obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity. | A set containing an open set which contains some specified point. | A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.


lexentry: eng/neighbour__Noun__1
written_rep: neighbour
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鄰居
sense_list:
A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.


lexentry: eng/neodymium__Noun__1
written_rep: neodymium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 釹 | 钕
sense_list:
A chemical element (symbol Nd) with an atomic number of 60: a hard, slightly malleable silvery rare earth metal that quickly tarnishes in air and moisture.


lexentry: eng/neoliberalism__Noun__1
written_rep: neoliberalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 新自由主义
sense_list:
(often, _, derogatory) A political ideology or ideological trend based on neoclassical economics that espouses economic liberalism, favouring trade liberalisation, financial deregulation, a small government, privatisation and liberalisation of government businesses, passive antitrust enforcement, accepting greater economic inequality and disfavouring unionisation.


lexentry: eng/neologism__Noun__1
written_rep: neologism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 新词
sense_list:
(linguistics, lexicography, countable) A word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase.


lexentry: eng/neoprene__Noun__1
written_rep: neoprene
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 氯丁橡胶
sense_list:
A synthetic rubber, a polymer of chloroprene, commonly used in wetsuits, laptop sleeves, orthopedic braces, electrical insulation, liquid and sheet-applied elastomeric membranes and flashings, car fan belts, etc.


lexentry: eng/nephew__Noun__1
written_rep: nephew
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 侄子 | 外甥
sense_list:
A son of one's sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either a son of one's brother (fraternal nephew) or a son of one's sister (sororal nephew).


lexentry: eng/nephrite__Noun__1
written_rep: nephrite
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 玉石
sense_list:
(mineral) A semi-precious stone, one of the two types of stone commonly referred to as jade (the other being jadeite).


lexentry: eng/nesh__Adjective__1
written_rep: nesh
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 怕冷的
sense_list:
(now, _, UK, _, dialectal) Delicate; weak; poor-spirited; susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc.


lexentry: eng/nest__Noun__1
written_rep: nest
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 窝
sense_list:
A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young. | A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young. | A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.


lexentry: eng/net__Noun__1
written_rep: net
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 網
sense_list:
A mesh of string, cord or rope. | A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc. | Anything that has the appearance of such a device. | (by extension) A trap. | A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.


lexentry: eng/netball__Noun__1
written_rep: netball
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 籃網球
sense_list:
(uncountable) A (usually women's) team sport derived from basketball, with seven players on each side who attempt to score goals by passing a ball and throwing it into the opponent's goal, which is a raised hoop with a net at one end of the playing area. Unlike basketball, a player in possession of the ball cannot move until the ball is passed to another player.


lexentry: eng/network__Noun__1
written_rep: network
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 网
sense_list:
(computing, Internet) A computer network: multiple computers and other devices connected together to share information. | Any interconnected group or system.


lexentry: eng/network__Noun__1
written_rep: network
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 互联网
sense_list:
(literal) A fabric or structure of fibrous elements attached to each other at regular intervals; the act or process of making such an object.


lexentry: eng/neurology__Noun__1
written_rep: neurology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 神經內科
sense_list:
The branch of medicine that deals with the disorders of nervous system including the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system and the nerves, muscles, and neuromuscular junction of the peripheral nervous system.


lexentry: eng/neuron__Noun__1
written_rep: neuron
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 神經元
sense_list:
(cytology) A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.


lexentry: eng/neurosis__Noun__1
written_rep: neurosis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 神经症
sense_list:
(dated, pathology, ;, current in, _, psychology, and) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear which differ from normal measures by their intensity, which disorder results from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society. [from the 1700s]


lexentry: eng/neurotoxin__Noun__1
written_rep: neurotoxin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 神經毒素
sense_list:
(neuroscience, toxicology, pharmaceutical drug) A toxin that specifically acts upon neurons, their synapses, or the nervous system in its entirety.


lexentry: eng/neurotypical__Adjective__1
written_rep: neurotypical
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 神经学典范
sense_list:
Having a typical way of processing sensory, linguistic, and social information. [from early 21th c.]


lexentry: eng/neuter__Noun__1
written_rep: neuter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: 中性
sense_list:
(grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.


lexentry: eng/neutral__Adjective__1
written_rep: neutral
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: 中性
sense_list:
(physics) Neither positive nor negative; possessing no charge or equivalent positive and negative charge such that there is no imbalance. | (chemistry) Having a pH of or near 7, neither acidic nor alkaline.


lexentry: eng/neutrality__Noun__1
written_rep: neutrality
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中立
sense_list:
The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side.


lexentry: eng/neutrino__Noun__1
written_rep: neutrino
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中微子
sense_list:
An elementary particle that is classified as a lepton, and has an extremely small but nonzero mass and no electric charge. It interacts with the surroundings only via the weak force or gravitation, making it very difficult to detect.


lexentry: eng/neutron__Noun__1
written_rep: neutron
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中子
sense_list:
(particle) A subatomic particle forming part of the nucleus of an atom and having no charge; it is a combination of an up quark and two down quarks.


lexentry: eng/neutron_bomb__Noun__1
written_rep: neutron bomb
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中子弹
sense_list:
An atomic bomb that produces a greater amount of neutrons, and a lesser amount of blast; the intention being to create equal lethal neutron radiation and blast radii which increases the effectiveness of the weapon against armour while reducing collateral damage.


lexentry: eng/neutron_star__Noun__1
written_rep: neutron star
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 中子星
sense_list:
(star) A degenerate star that has been so collapsed by gravity that its electrons and protons have been merged into neutrons by the intense pressure. The solid mass of neutrons is sometimes called neutronium.


lexentry: eng/neutronium__Noun__1
written_rep: neutronium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 0號元素
sense_list:
(physics) A hypothetical gravitationally bound system of a neutron and an antineutron (the onium of a neutron), not predicted to exist under normal circumstances.


lexentry: eng/never_mind__Verb__1
written_rep: never mind
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 没关系
sense_list:
(hortative) It is not important; do not fret; used to reassure or comfort the person to whom it is said.


lexentry: eng/new__Adjective__1
written_rep: new
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 新
sense_list:
Recently made, or created. | Of recent origin; having taken place recently. | Additional; recently discovered. | Current or later, as opposed to former. | Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing. | In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used. | Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed. | Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known. | Recently arrived or appeared. | Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.


lexentry: eng/new_energy_vehicle__Noun__1
written_rep: new energy vehicle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: NEV | 新能源汽車
sense_list:
(China, automotive) A plug-in electric vehicle, either a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle or an all-electric plug-in battery electric vehicle


lexentry: eng/newbie__Noun__1
written_rep: newbie
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 初学者
sense_list:
(Internet) A new user or participant; someone who is extremely new and inexperienced (to a game or activity). A beginner.


lexentry: eng/newel__Noun__1
written_rep: newel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 内核
sense_list:
(architecture) A central pillar around which a staircase spirals. | (architecture) A sturdy pillar at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, supporting the handrail.


lexentry: eng/news_agency__Noun__1
written_rep: news agency
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 新闻社
sense_list:
An organisation that gathers and distributes news to newspapers and radio and television broadcasters.


lexentry: eng/newspeak__Noun__1
written_rep: newspeak
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 新语
sense_list:
Use of ambiguous, misleading, or euphemistic words in order to deceive the listener, especially by politicians and officials.


lexentry: eng/newt__Verb__1
written_rep: newt
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 蝾螈
sense_list:
(transitive) To turn (someone) into a newt, especially by magic. | (by extension, informal, transitive) To (usually temporarily) expel a user from a MUD or similar system


lexentry: eng/newton__Noun__1
written_rep: newton
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 牛頓
sense_list:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of force; the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram by one metre per second per second.


lexentry: eng/niche__Noun__1
written_rep: niche
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 狗屋
sense_list:
(architectural element) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. | (ecology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited. | (by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business.


lexentry: eng/nickeline__Noun__1
written_rep: nickeline
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 紅砷鎳礦
sense_list:
(mineral) A mineral, a form of nickel arsenide, NiAs, having a metallic lustre and copper-red colour, that is a minor ore of nickel.


lexentry: eng/nickname__Noun__1
written_rep: nickname
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 綽號
sense_list:
A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.


lexentry: eng/nicotine__Noun__1
written_rep: nicotine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 尼古丁
sense_list:
(organic compound) An alkaloid (C10H14N2), commonly occurring in the tobacco plant. | (figuratively) Tobacco or cigarettes.


lexentry: eng/niece__Noun__1
written_rep: niece
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 侄女
sense_list:
A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").


lexentry: eng/nifty__Adjective__1
written_rep: nifty
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 典雅
sense_list:
(colloquial, somewhat, _, dated) Good, smart; useful or beneficial, often in an impressively clever way.


lexentry: eng/nigger__Noun__1
written_rep: nigger
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 代笔作家
sense_list:
(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, see usage notes) A black person; a person of black African descent.


lexentry: eng/night__Noun__1
written_rep: night
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 夜晚 | 夜
sense_list:
(legal, countable) A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise. | (countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.


lexentry: eng/night_owl__Noun__1
written_rep: night owl
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 夜游神
sense_list:
(idiomatic) One who goes to bed late, or stays up late at night or in the early hours of the morning.


lexentry: eng/night_person__Noun__1
written_rep: night person
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 夜游神
sense_list:
(idiomatic) A person whose preference or custom is to remain awake and active during the evening and early morning (night) hours, and who usually sleeps during part of the daytime.


lexentry: eng/night_shift__Noun__1
written_rep: night shift
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 夜班
sense_list:
A regularly scheduled period of work, during evening or night hours. | A group of workers who work during the night.


lexentry: eng/night_watchman__Noun__1
written_rep: night watchman
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 守夜人
sense_list:
(historical) Prior to police forces, a person appointed by a town or city to walk the streets at night and guard the burghers from felons and robbers. | A person who guards (usually at a building) at night.


lexentry: eng/nightclub__Noun__1
written_rep: nightclub
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 夜店
sense_list:
A public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music or dancing.


lexentry: eng/nightingale__Noun__1
written_rep: nightingale
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 夜莺
sense_list:
A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale.


lexentry: eng/nightmare__Noun__1
written_rep: nightmare
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 恶梦
sense_list:
A very unpleasant or frightening dream. [from 19th c.] | (figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. [from 20th c.] | (now, chiefly, historical) A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; sleep paralysis. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/nihilism__Noun__1
written_rep: nihilism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 虚无主义
sense_list:
(usually, uncountable) The rejection of, or opposition to, religious beliefs, (inherent or objective) moral principles, legal rules, etc., often due to the view that life is meaningless (sense 1). | (countable, uncountable, philosophy) A doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life; in particular, the view that nothing in the world actually exists.


lexentry: eng/nimbostratus__Noun__1
written_rep: nimbostratus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 雨層雲
sense_list:
(meteorology) A mid-level cloud, generally formless and dark grey in color, associated with precipitation. Abbreviated Ns.


lexentry: eng/nine_hundred__Numeral__1
written_rep: nine hundred
part_of_speech: numeral
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 九百
sense_list:
The cardinal number occurring after eight hundred ninety-nine and before nine hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 900. Ordinal: nine-hundredth.


lexentry: eng/nine_men's_morris__Noun__1
written_rep: nine men's morris
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 磨房
sense_list:
An ancient strategic board game for two players, each having nine pieces, and in which forming a row of three of one's own pieces earns the removal of one of the other player's pieces.


lexentry: eng/nineteen__Numeral__1
written_rep: nineteen
part_of_speech: numeral
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 十九
sense_list:
The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".


lexentry: eng/ninety__Numeral__1
written_rep: ninety
part_of_speech: numeral
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 九十
sense_list:
The cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine and before ninety-one, represented in Roman numerals as XC and in Arabic numerals as 90.


lexentry: eng/ninja__Noun__1
written_rep: ninja
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 忍者
sense_list:
(martial arts) A person trained in ninjutsu, especially (historical) one used for espionage, assassination, and other tasks requiring stealth during Japan's shogunate period.


lexentry: eng/niobium__Noun__1
written_rep: niobium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鈮
sense_list:
A chemical element (symbol Nb) with an atomic number of 41: a light grey, crystalline, ductile transition metal used in superconducting materials.


lexentry: eng/nipple__Noun__1
written_rep: nipple
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 乳頭 | 乳头
sense_list:
(anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/nirvana__Noun__1
written_rep: nirvana
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 涅槃
sense_list:
(Buddhism) Complete cessation of dukkha; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience.


lexentry: eng/nitric_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: nitric acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 硝酸
sense_list:
(inorganic compound) A transparent, colorless to pale yellow, fuming corrosive liquid, HNO3; a highly reactive oxidizing agent used in the production of fertilizers, explosives, and rocket fuels and in a wide variety of industrial processes; once called aqua fortis.


lexentry: eng/nitrogen__Noun__1
written_rep: nitrogen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 氮
sense_list:
(uncountable) The chemical element (symbol N) with an atomic number of 7 and atomic weight of 14.0067. It is a colorless and odorless gas.


lexentry: eng/nitrous_oxide__Noun__1
written_rep: nitrous oxide
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 一氧化二氮
sense_list:
(inorganic compound) A non-flammable gas (N₂O) commonly used in surgery and dentistry for its anaesthetic and analgesic effects and in motorsport for bursts of added power.


lexentry: eng/no__Noun__1
written_rep: no
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 不 | 否
sense_list:
A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval. | A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.


lexentry: eng/no_pain,_no_gain__Proverb__1
written_rep: no pain, no gain
part_of_speech: proverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 不入虎穴，焉得虎子
sense_list:
One must be willing to endure some inconvenience or discomfort in order to achieve worthwhile goals.


lexentry: eng/no_smoking__Phrase__1
written_rep: no smoking
part_of_speech: phraseologicalUnit
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: [[#
sense_list:
A phrase used in notices indicating that the smoking of cigarettes, etc., is not permitted in the surrounding area.


lexentry: eng/no_use__Noun__1
written_rep: no use
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 无用的
sense_list:
Condition of being pointless, useless, not worth doing, especially because it is not likely to succeed.


lexentry: eng/nobility__Noun__1
written_rep: nobility
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 贵族阶层
sense_list:
A noble or privileged social class, historically accompanied by a hereditary title; aristocracy. | (uncountable) The quality of being noble.


lexentry: eng/noble__Adjective__1
written_rep: noble
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 贵
sense_list:
Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character. | Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.


lexentry: eng/noble_gas__Noun__1
written_rep: noble gas
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 稀有气体
sense_list:
(chemistry) Any of the elements of group 18 of the periodic table, being monatomic, usually inert (with very limited exceptions), and gaseous at familiar temperatures.


lexentry: eng/nocturnal__Adjective__1
written_rep: nocturnal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 夜间
sense_list:
(of a person, creature, group, or species) Primarily active during the night. | (of an occurrence) Taking place at night, nightly.


lexentry: eng/node__Noun__1
written_rep: node
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 結
sense_list:
A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling. | (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure. | (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.


lexentry: eng/node__Noun__1
written_rep: node
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 节
sense_list:
(astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋. | (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.


lexentry: eng/noise__Noun__1
written_rep: noise
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 噪音
sense_list:
(uncountable) Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant. | Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations. | (technology) Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output. | (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.


lexentry: eng/nomad__Noun__1
written_rep: nomad
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 游牧
sense_list:
(anthropology) A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.


lexentry: eng/nomadic__Adjective__1
written_rep: nomadic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 游牧
sense_list:
(anthropology) Of or related to itinerant herdsmen. | (figuratively) Of or related to any habitually wandering person or animal.


lexentry: eng/nominal__Adjective__1
written_rep: nominal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 命名的
sense_list:
Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names. | (finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.


lexentry: eng/nominalism__Noun__1
written_rep: nominalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 唯名論
sense_list:
(philosophy) A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects.


lexentry: eng/nominee__Noun__1
written_rep: nominee
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 考生
sense_list:
A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office.


lexentry: eng/nomogram__Noun__1
written_rep: nomogram
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 算盘
sense_list:
(mathematics) A diagram in which the relationship between three variables is represented by a straight line or curve for each variable; the value of the third variable corresponding to particular values of the first two is obtained by drawing a straight line through the points on the first two curves that represent particular values of the first two variables and noting the point at which the line intersects the third line or curve.


lexentry: eng/non-commissioned_officer__Noun__1
written_rep: non-commissioned officer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 士官
sense_list:
A person of authority in the military who has not received a commission (a direct conveyance of authority from the sovereign government); as such they can have charge or control but not command in the most technical use of the word.


lexentry: eng/non-governmental_organization__Noun__1
written_rep: non-governmental organization
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 非政府组织
sense_list:
A legally constituted non-commercial organization (created by natural or legal persons) with no direct control, participation or representation of a state or government, whose funding, however, may be largely public (which creates the possibility of indirect control).


lexentry: eng/nonane__Noun__1
written_rep: nonane
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 壬烷
sense_list:
(organic compound) Any of very many isomeric alkanes, of the general formula C9H20, having nine carbon atoms.


lexentry: eng/nonce__Noun__2
written_rep: nonce
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 指标
sense_list:
(British, Ireland, pejorative) A sex offender, especially one who is guilty of sexual offences against children. [1975]


lexentry: eng/nonmetal__Noun__1
written_rep: nonmetal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 非金属
sense_list:
(chemistry) An element, such as phosphorus or chlorine, that does not have the chemical or physical properties of a metal.


lexentry: eng/nonviolence__Noun__1
written_rep: nonviolence
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 非暴力
sense_list:
A philosophy that rejects the use of violence, and instead seeks to bring about change through peaceful responses even to violent acts.


lexentry: eng/noob__Noun__1
written_rep: noob
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 初学者
sense_list:
(Internet slang, chiefly, derogatory) A newb or newbie; refers to the idea that someone is new to a game, concept, or idea; implying a lack of experience. Also, in some areas the word noob can mean someone is obsessed with things.


lexentry: eng/noodle__Noun__1
written_rep: noodle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 面
sense_list:
(usually, in the plural) A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.


lexentry: eng/nor__Conjunction__1
written_rep: nor
part_of_speech: conjunction
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 或
sense_list:
(literary) And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one). | (formal, dated) A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true. | (archaic) Neither. | (formal, dated) Used to introduce a further negative statement. | (UK, dialect) Than.


lexentry: eng/noria__Noun__1
written_rep: noria
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 水车
sense_list:
A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water. | Any mechanism using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct.


lexentry: eng/normal__Adjective__1
written_rep: normal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 正常
sense_list:
(set theory, of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals) Which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology. | According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.


lexentry: eng/normalization__Noun__1
written_rep: normalization
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 正常化
sense_list:
Any process that makes something more normal or regular, which typically means conforming to some regularity or rule, or returning from some state of abnormality.


lexentry: eng/normally__Adverb__1
written_rep: normally
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 正常
sense_list:
Under normal conditions or circumstances; usually; most of the time | In the expected or customary manner.


lexentry: eng/north__Noun__1
written_rep: north
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 北
sense_list:
The direction towards the pole to the left-hand side of someone facing east, specifically 0°, or (on another celestial object) the direction towards the pole lying on the northern side of the invariable plane. | The up or positive direction. | (physics) The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole). | Alternative letter-case form of North (“a northern region; the inhabitants thereof”). [circa 1300] | (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar.


lexentry: eng/northern__Adjective__1
written_rep: northern
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 北
sense_list:
Of, facing, situated in, or related to the north; northerly. | (of a wind) Blowing from the north; northerly.


lexentry: eng/northwest_by_north__Noun__1
written_rep: northwest by north
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 西北微北
sense_list:
The compass point halfway between northwest and north-northwest, specifically 326.25°, abbreviated as NWbN.


lexentry: eng/nose__Noun__1
written_rep: nose
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鼻子 | 鼻
sense_list:
A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell. | The tip of an object.


lexentry: eng/nosebleed_section__Noun__1
written_rep: nosebleed section
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 乐园
sense_list:
(North American) The seats high in the back of bleachers, stands, or the balcony at a theater or stadium, usually cheaper and with a poorer view than other seats.


lexentry: eng/nosegay__Noun__1
written_rep: nosegay
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 花束
sense_list:
A small bunch of fragrant flowers or herbs tied in a bundle, often presented as a gift; nosegays were originally intended to be put to the nose for the pleasant sensation or to mask unpleasant odours. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/nostril__Noun__1
written_rep: nostril
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鼻孔
sense_list:
Either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.


lexentry: eng/not_at_all__Interjection__1
written_rep: not at all
part_of_speech: interjection
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 不 否
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Used similarly to you're welcome, as a conventional reply to an expression of gratitude.


lexentry: eng/notary__Noun__1
written_rep: notary
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 公證人
sense_list:
(legal, Canada, US) A notary public, a public officer who serves as an impartial witness to the signing of important documents, but who is not authorised to practise law.


lexentry: eng/notary_public__Noun__1
written_rep: notary public
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 公證人
sense_list:
(law) An officer who can administer oaths and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate documents and perform certain other acts varying from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.


lexentry: eng/note__Noun__1
written_rep: note
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 音符
sense_list:
A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation. | A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute. | A short informal letter; a billet. | (music) A sound. | A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.


lexentry: eng/notebook__Noun__1
written_rep: notebook
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 本子
sense_list:
(computing, sometimes, attributive) A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.


lexentry: eng/notice__Noun__1
written_rep: notice
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 辭職
sense_list:
(chiefly, uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.


lexentry: eng/nought__Noun__1
written_rep: nought
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 零
sense_list:
(UK, Irish, Commonwealth) Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game. | (UK, Irish, Commonwealth) The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero.


lexentry: eng/noun__Noun__1
written_rep: noun
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 名詞 | 名词
sense_list:
(grammar, narrowly) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.


lexentry: eng/nourish__Verb__1
written_rep: nourish
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 生長
sense_list:
(transitive) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health. | (transitive) To encourage; to foster; to stimulate


lexentry: eng/nourish__Verb__1
written_rep: nourish
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 培养
sense_list:
(transitive, of a person) To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.


lexentry: eng/nous__Noun__1
written_rep: nous
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 俺们
sense_list:
(philosophy) The mind or intellect, reason, both rational and emotional | In Neoplatonism, the divine reason, regarded as first divine emanation.


lexentry: eng/nuclear_fission__Noun__1
written_rep: nuclear fission
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 核裂变
sense_list:
(nuclear physics) A nuclear reaction in which a large nucleus splits into smaller ones, sometimes accompanied by the simultaneous release of energy.


lexentry: eng/nuclear_fusion__Noun__1
written_rep: nuclear fusion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 核聚变
sense_list:
(nuclear physics) The combining of the nuclei of atoms to form the nuclei of larger ones, with a resulting release of large quantities of energy; the process that makes the sun shine, and hydrogen bombs explode.


lexentry: eng/nuclear_reaction__Noun__1
written_rep: nuclear reaction
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 核反应
sense_list:
A process such as the fission of an atomic nucleus, or the fusion of one or more atomic nuclei and/or subatomic particles in which the number of protons and/or neutrons in a nucleus changes; the reaction products may contain a different element or a different isotope of the same element.


lexentry: eng/nuclear_reactor__Noun__1
written_rep: nuclear reactor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 核反应堆
sense_list:
(physics) Any device in which a controlled chain reaction is maintained for the purpose of creating heat (for power generation) or for creating neutrons and other fission products for experimental, medical or other purposes.


lexentry: eng/nuclear_winter__Noun__1
written_rep: nuclear winter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 核冬天
sense_list:
A predicted drop in global temperature following a nuclear war due to dust in the upper atmosphere reducing sunlight reaching the ground.


lexentry: eng/nucleic_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: nucleic acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 核酸
sense_list:
(biochemistry, genetics) Any acidic, chainlike biological macromolecule consisting of multiple repeat units of phosphoric acid, sugar and purine and pyrimidine bases; they are involved in the preservation, replication and expression of hereditary information in every living cell


lexentry: eng/nucleotide__Noun__1
written_rep: nucleotide
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 核苷酸
sense_list:
(biochemistry) The monomer constituting DNA or RNA biopolymer molecules. Each nucleotide consists of a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (or nucleobase), which can be either a double-ringed purine or a single-ringed pyrimidine; a five-carbon pentose sugar (deoxyribose in DNA or ribose in RNA); and a phosphate group.


lexentry: eng/nucleus__Noun__1
written_rep: nucleus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 原子核
sense_list:
The core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled. | (chemistry, physics) The massive, positively charged central part of an atom, made up of protons and neutrons. | (cytology) A large membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells which contains genetic material. | (phonetics, phonology) The central part of a syllable, most commonly a vowel.


lexentry: eng/nude__Noun__1
written_rep: nude
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 纽
sense_list:
A painting, sculpture, photograph or other artwork or mass-media-reproduced image depicting one or more human figure(s) in a state of near or total undress.


lexentry: eng/nudiustertian__Adjective__1
written_rep: nudiustertian
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 前天
sense_list:
(rare, obsolete, modern uses probably, _, humorous) Of or relating to the day before yesterday; very recent.


lexentry: eng/nuisance__Noun__1
written_rep: nuisance
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 烦扰
sense_list:
(legal) Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.


lexentry: eng/nuke__Noun__1
written_rep: nuke
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 原子弹
sense_list:
A nuclear weapon. | A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.


lexentry: eng/nullify__Verb__1
written_rep: nullify
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 取消
sense_list:
(transitive, legal) To make legally invalid. | To prevent from happening. | To make of no use or value; to cancel out.


lexentry: eng/number__Noun__1
written_rep: number
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 数
sense_list:
(countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity. | (countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc. | (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner. | (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection. | (countable, informal) A person.


lexentry: eng/numbers_station__Noun__1
written_rep: numbers station
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 数字电台
sense_list:
(radio, espionage) A shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, often of artificially generated voices reciting streams of numbers, words, etc., supposedly of coded messages.


lexentry: eng/numeral__Noun__1
written_rep: numeral
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 数字
sense_list:
A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 or the Roman numerals I, V, X, L.


lexentry: eng/numeral__Noun__1
written_rep: numeral
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 数词
sense_list:
(linguistics) A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical attributes depending on the language.


lexentry: eng/numerology__Noun__1
written_rep: numerology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 命理學
sense_list:
The study of the purported mystical relationship between numbers (or the letters of words, represented by numbers) and the character or action of physical objects and living beings.


lexentry: eng/nun__Noun__1
written_rep: nun
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 修女
sense_list:
A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.


lexentry: eng/nuncheon__Noun__1
written_rep: nuncheon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 品尝
sense_list:
(now, _, dialectal, archaic) A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.


lexentry: eng/nursery_school__Noun__1
written_rep: nursery school
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 幼儿园
sense_list:
(, Canada, British) An educational institution for small children (normally around 3 to 5 years old, who not yet have begun primary school).


lexentry: eng/nut__Noun__1
written_rep: nut
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 坚果
sense_list:
(food, broadly) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.


lexentry: eng/nut__Noun__1
written_rep: nut
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 螺母
sense_list:
(hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft. | (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)


lexentry: eng/nuthatch__Noun__1
written_rep: nuthatch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 䴓科
sense_list:
Any of various small passerine birds from the genus Sitta, found throughout the northern hemisphere and noted for their unusual proclivity for climbing down trees head first.


lexentry: eng/nutrient__Noun__1
written_rep: nutrient
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 營養
sense_list:
A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.


lexentry: eng/nuzzle__Verb__1
written_rep: nuzzle
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 抚爱
sense_list:
Often followed by in or into: to press or push the nose or snout, mouth, face, etc., against or into someone or something; to touch someone or something with the nose or snout, etc.


lexentry: eng/nychthemeron__Noun__1
written_rep: nychthemeron
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 天
sense_list:
(uncommon) A period of one day and one night, a date: in the West, a period of 24 consecutive hours.


lexentry: eng/nylon__Noun__1
written_rep: nylon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 尼龍
sense_list:
Originally, the DuPont company trade name for polyamide, a copolymer whose molecules consist of alternating diamine and dicarboxylic acid monomers bonded together; now generically used for this type of polymer. | (in the plural) A stocking originally fabricated from nylon; also used generically for any long, sheer stocking worn on a woman's legs. | (perjoratively, by comparison to silk) A Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel or Senior Counsel who was appointed as a courtesy, rather than on merit.


lexentry: eng/nymph__Noun__1
written_rep: nymph
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 仙女
sense_list:
(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grotto, wind, etc.


lexentry: eng/nymph__Noun__1
written_rep: nymph
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 宁芙
sense_list:
A young girl, especially one who is attractive, beautiful or graceful. | (entomology) The larva of certain insects.


lexentry: eng/négligée__Noun__1
written_rep: négligée
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 女便服
sense_list:
(obsolete) A woman's lightweight gown of the eighteenth century. [18th–19th c.] | A woman's loose-fitting nightgown, especially when short, lacy and/or revealing; a nightie. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/o'clock__Adverb__1
written_rep: o'clock
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 一
sense_list:
(modifying a numeral, one to twelve) In conjunction with a numeral, indicates the time within a twelve-hour period (midnight to noon or noon to midnight), specifically the time when the hour hand of a clock points precisely to the symbol or marking corresponding to the designated numeral, i.e., at the hour.


lexentry: eng/oak__Noun__1
written_rep: oak
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 橡樹
sense_list:
(uncountable) The wood of the oak. | Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.


lexentry: eng/oar__Noun__1
written_rep: oar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 槳
sense_list:
A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.


lexentry: eng/oasis__Noun__1
written_rep: oasis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 綠洲
sense_list:
A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert. | (figuratively) A quiet, peaceful place or situation separated from surrounding noise or bustle.


lexentry: eng/oath__Noun__1
written_rep: oath
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 誓詞
sense_list:
A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.


lexentry: eng/obelisk__Noun__1
written_rep: obelisk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 方尖碑
sense_list:
(architecture) A tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, frequently used as a monument. [from mid 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/object__Noun__1
written_rep: object
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: 什物
sense_list:
(category theory) An instance of one of the two kinds of entities that form a category, the other kind being the arrows (also called morphisms).


lexentry: eng/object__Verb__1
written_rep: object
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 反對
sense_list:
(intransitive) To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.


lexentry: eng/objection__Noun__1
written_rep: objection
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 异议
sense_list:
A statement expressing opposition, or a reason or cause for expressing opposition (generally followed by the adposition to).


lexentry: eng/objective__Adjective__1
written_rep: objective
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 客觀
sense_list:
Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality. | Not influenced by the strong emotions or prejudices.


lexentry: eng/objective__Noun__1
written_rep: objective
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 客觀
sense_list:
A material object that physically exists. | A goal that is striven for. | The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.


lexentry: eng/oblige__Verb__1
written_rep: oblige
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 服务
sense_list:
(transitive, intransitive) To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).


lexentry: eng/oblivion__Noun__1
written_rep: oblivion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 無
sense_list:
The state of being completely forgotten, of being reduced to a state of non-existence, extinction, or nothingness, including through war and destruction. (Figuratively) for an area like hell, a wasteland.


lexentry: eng/oboe__Noun__1
written_rep: oboe
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 双簧管
sense_list:
(woodwind instrument) A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.


lexentry: eng/observation__Noun__1
written_rep: observation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 观察
sense_list:
The act of observing, and the fact of being observed (see observance) | The act of noting and recording some event; or the record of such noting. | A remark or comment.


lexentry: eng/observatory__Noun__1
written_rep: observatory
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 天文台
sense_list:
A place where stars, planets and other celestial bodies are observed, usually through a telescope; also place for observing meteorological or other natural phenomena.


lexentry: eng/observe__Verb__1
written_rep: observe
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 看到
sense_list:
(transitive) To take note of and celebrate (a holiday or similar occurrence), to keep; to follow (a type of time or calendar reckoning).


lexentry: eng/obsession__Noun__1
written_rep: obsession
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 迷住
sense_list:
An idea that engenders a compulsive or irrational preoccupation, or the preoccupation thereby engendered. | An activity or entity that inspires a compulsive and potentially unhealthy fixation, or the fixation thereby inspired.


lexentry: eng/obsessive-compulsive_disorder__Noun__1
written_rep: obsessive-compulsive disorder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 強迫症
sense_list:
(medicine, psychology) A mental and behavioral disorder, characterized by obsessive intrusive thoughts and a compulsion to ease the resulting distress by repeating specific routines or rituals, regardless of their interference with other activities.


lexentry: eng/obsolete__Adjective__1
written_rep: obsolete
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 老
sense_list:
(of words, equipment, etc.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often in favour of something newer).


lexentry: eng/obstacle__Noun__1
written_rep: obstacle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 障礙
sense_list:
Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress, either physically or figuratively


lexentry: eng/obstacle_course__Noun__1
written_rep: obstacle course
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 障碍赛跑
sense_list:
A course with a series of physical challenges (running, climbing, swimming, etc.) to be performed sequentially. | (figuratively) A painful and strenuous experience; hassle.


lexentry: eng/obstinate__Adjective__1
written_rep: obstinate
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 顽固的
sense_list:
Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.


lexentry: eng/obstruct__Verb__1
written_rep: obstruct
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 堵塞
sense_list:
To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See synonyms at block. | To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.


lexentry: eng/obstruction__Noun__1
written_rep: obstruction
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 阻塞
sense_list:
Something which obstructs or impedes, either intentionally or unintentionally | The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.


lexentry: eng/obtuse__Adjective__1
written_rep: obtuse
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: [[#
sense_list:
(geometry, specifically, of an, angle) Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.


lexentry: eng/ocarina__Noun__1
written_rep: ocarina
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 陶笛
sense_list:
(musical instruments) A woodwind musical instrument that is closed at both sides to produce an enclosed space, and punctured with finger holes.


lexentry: eng/occasion__Noun__1
written_rep: occasion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 道理
sense_list:
An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/occluded_front__Noun__1
written_rep: occluded front
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 囚锢锋
sense_list:
(meteorology) A front that occurs when a cold front overtakes a warm front at the surface and a temperature contrast exists between the advancing and retreating cold air masses.


lexentry: eng/occupation__Noun__1
written_rep: occupation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 職業
sense_list:
An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job. | The act, process or state of possessing a place. | (geopolitics, military) The control of a nation or region by a hostile military or paramilitary force.


lexentry: eng/ocean_sunfish__Noun__1
written_rep: ocean sunfish
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 月亮
sense_list:
A large, heavy species of bony fish, Mola mola, native to tropical and temperate waters around the world.


lexentry: eng/ocelot__Noun__1
written_rep: ocelot
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 虎貓
sense_list:
An American feline carnivore (Leopardus pardalis, syn. Felis pardalis) covered with blackish ocellated spots and blotches which are variously arranged.


lexentry: eng/octahedron__Noun__1
written_rep: octahedron
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 正八面體
sense_list:
(geometry) a polyhedron with eight faces; the regular octahedron has regular triangles as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.


lexentry: eng/octane__Noun__1
written_rep: octane
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 辛烷
sense_list:
(organic compound) Any of the eighteen isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons (C8H18) found in petroleum, especially an iso-octane 2,2,4 trimethyl-pentane; they are used as fuels and solvents.


lexentry: eng/octonion__Noun__1
written_rep: octonion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 八元數
sense_list:
(mathematics) An 8-dimensional nonassociative extension of a quaternion with a real part and 7 imaginary parts (each a real multiple of a distinct square root of −1).


lexentry: eng/odd__Adjective__1
written_rep: odd
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 10
trans_list: 差不多
sense_list:
(not comparable, in combination with a number) About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).


lexentry: eng/ode__Noun__1
written_rep: ode
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 奥德
sense_list:
A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.


lexentry: eng/odontology__Noun__1
written_rep: odontology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 牙醫學
sense_list:
The study of the structure and development of teeth | The branch of dentistry dealing with abnormalities of teeth


lexentry: eng/oeuvre__Noun__1
written_rep: oeuvre
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 文学
sense_list:
(uncountable, collective) A substantial or complete corpus of works produced by a artist, composer, or writer.


lexentry: eng/of__Preposition__1
written_rep: of
part_of_speech: preposition
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 的
sense_list:
Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.


lexentry: eng/of__Preposition__1
written_rep: of
part_of_speech: preposition
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 以前
sense_list:
Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below). [from 13th c.]


lexentry: eng/of__Preposition__1
written_rep: of
part_of_speech: preposition
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 之
sense_list:
Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class. [from 12th c.] | Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to. [from 10th c.] | Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below; see also double possessive). [from 13th c.] | Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.) [from 13th c.] | Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. [from 9th c.] | (archaic, or, literary) Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier; in respect to, as regards. [from 13th c.]


lexentry: eng/of__Preposition__1
written_rep: of
part_of_speech: preposition
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: 关于
sense_list:
(following an adjective) Introduces its subject matter. [from 15th c.] | Introducing subject matter.


lexentry: eng/offend__Verb__1
written_rep: offend
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 冒犯
sense_list:
(transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult. | (transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.


lexentry: eng/offense__Noun__1
written_rep: offense
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 袭击
sense_list:
(team, _, sports) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defense. | (team, _, sports) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; contrasted with defense.


lexentry: eng/office__Noun__1
written_rep: office
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 办公室
sense_list:
Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position. | A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:


lexentry: eng/office_hours__Noun__1
written_rep: office hours
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 工時
sense_list:
A pre-arranged time when a person whose occupation frequently takes them away from their office during working hours is available in their office to answer questions or provide assistance without the requirement for an appointment.


lexentry: eng/officer__Noun__1
written_rep: officer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 官方的
sense_list:
One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations. | A respectful term of address for an officer, especially a police officer.


lexentry: eng/official__Adjective__1
written_rep: official
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 官方
sense_list:
Approved by authority; authorized. | Relating to an office, especially a subordinate executive officer or attendant.


lexentry: eng/official__Noun__1
written_rep: official
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 官方的
sense_list:
An office holder, a person holding an official position in government, sports, or other organization.


lexentry: eng/offset__Noun__1
written_rep: offset
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 补偿
sense_list:
Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent. | (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.


lexentry: eng/offshoot__Noun__1
written_rep: offshoot
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 支线
sense_list:
Something which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant. | Something which develops from something else.


lexentry: eng/offshore__Verb__1
written_rep: offshore
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 带
sense_list:
(transitive) To move industrial production from one region to another or from one country to another, in order to seek lower business costs, such as labor.


lexentry: eng/oganesson__Noun__1
written_rep: oganesson
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鿫
sense_list:
The chemical element (symbol Og) with atomic number 118. It is the heaviest known element. Highly radioactive, it does not occur naturally. Originally expected to be a noble gas, it is now predicted to be a reactive metallic solid, and a semiconductor or a post-transition metal.


lexentry: eng/ogle__Verb__1
written_rep: ogle
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 盯
sense_list:
(transitive, intransitive) To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.


lexentry: eng/ohm__Noun__1
written_rep: ohm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 欧姆
sense_list:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical resistance; the electrical resistance of a device across which a potential difference of one volt causes a current of one ampere.


lexentry: eng/oil_lamp__Noun__1
written_rep: oil lamp
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 油灯
sense_list:
A simple vessel used to produce light continuously for a period of time from a liquid fuel source, especially lamp oil.


lexentry: eng/oil_palm__Noun__1
written_rep: oil palm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 油棕
sense_list:
A plant of species Elaeis guineensis, principal source of palm oil and palm kernel oil. | Any species of palm which can usefully produce palm oil.


lexentry: eng/ointment__Noun__1
written_rep: ointment
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 软膏剂
sense_list:
(medicine) A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient.


lexentry: eng/okapi__Noun__1
written_rep: okapi
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 霍加狓
sense_list:
A large ruminant mammal, of species Okapia johnstoni, found in the rainforests of the Congo, related to the giraffe but with a much shorter neck, a reddish-brown coat, and zebra-like stripes on the hindquarters. [from early 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/old__Adjective__1
written_rep: old
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 老
sense_list:
Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years. | Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time. | Of a perishable item, having existed for most of, or more than, its shelf life. | Having been used and thus no longer new or unused. | Having existed or lived for the specified time. | Former, previous.


lexentry: eng/old_folks'_home__Noun__1
written_rep: old folks' home
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 养老院
sense_list:
(colloquial, sometimes, derogatory, or, humorous) A residential complex for elderly people often equipped with special facilities and care services; especially, a nursing home.


lexentry: eng/old_man__Noun__1
written_rep: old man
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 大
sense_list:
(colloquial) A husband, or male significant other, irrespective of age. | (slang, military) A unit's commanding officer, or the commander of a naval vessel, irrespective of age.


lexentry: eng/old_woman__Noun__1
written_rep: old woman
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 古
sense_list:
(countable, informal, derogatory) A person (irrespective of age or sex) who is always complaining about his or her situation.


lexentry: eng/older_brother__Noun__1
written_rep: older brother
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 哥哥
sense_list:
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see older,‎ brother. (This entry is a translation hub.)


lexentry: eng/older_sister__Noun__1
written_rep: older sister
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 姐姐
sense_list:
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see older,‎ sister. (This entry is a translation hub.)


lexentry: eng/oleic_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: oleic acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 油酸
sense_list:
(fatty acid) An unsaturated fatty acid, having 18 carbon atoms and one double bond, found in olive oil and very many other vegetable and animal oils and fats; it is used for making soap, cosmetics etc.


lexentry: eng/oligarchy__Noun__1
written_rep: oligarchy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 寡头政治
sense_list:
A government run by and for only a few, often the aristocracy, the wealthy, or their friends and associates. | A state ruled by such a government.


lexentry: eng/oligomer__Noun__1
written_rep: oligomer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 低聚物
sense_list:
(chemistry) A compound intermediate between a monomer and a polymer, normally having a specified number of units between about five and a hundred.


lexentry: eng/oligopoly__Noun__1
written_rep: oligopoly
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 寡頭壟斷
sense_list:
(economics) An economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity.


lexentry: eng/olive_oil__Noun__1
written_rep: olive oil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 橄欖油
sense_list:
A vegetable oil, pressed from olives, and used in cooking and as a salad dressing; it is high in unsaturated fatty acids.


lexentry: eng/olivine__Noun__1
written_rep: olivine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 橄榄石
sense_list:
(mineral, geology) Any of a group of olive green magnesium-iron silicate minerals that crystallize in the orthorhombic system.


lexentry: eng/omasum__Noun__1
written_rep: omasum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 书
sense_list:
(biology, food) The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the lining of said compartment, regarded as a foodstuff.


lexentry: eng/ombudsman__Noun__1
written_rep: ombudsman
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 申訴專員
sense_list:
An appointed official whose duty is to investigate complaints, generally on behalf of individuals such as consumers or taxpayers, against institutions such as companies and government departments.


lexentry: eng/omelette__Noun__1
written_rep: omelette
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 煎蛋餅
sense_list:
A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.


lexentry: eng/omen__Noun__1
written_rep: omen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 前兆
sense_list:
Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury. | A thing of prophetic significance.


lexentry: eng/ominous__Adjective__1
written_rep: ominous
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 不祥的
sense_list:
Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant. | Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen


lexentry: eng/omnipresence__Noun__1
written_rep: omnipresence
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 无处不在
sense_list:
The ability to be, or the characteristic of being, at all places at the same time (usually only attributed to God).


lexentry: eng/on__Preposition__1
written_rep: on
part_of_speech: preposition
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 上
sense_list:
Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above. | With verbs describing an action of hitting, rubbing, scratching, binding against, etc., designates the thing impacted or contacted. | To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon. | (mathematics) Having V^n as domain and V as codomain, for the specified set V and some integer n.


lexentry: eng/on__Preposition__1
written_rep: on
part_of_speech: preposition
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 信封
sense_list:
Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with. | Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.


lexentry: eng/on_foot__Prepositional_phrase__1
written_rep: on foot
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 走路
sense_list:
On one's feet; walking, jogging or running but not in a vehicle or on the back of an animal. [from 10th c.]


lexentry: eng/on_the_fly__Adverb__1
written_rep: on the fly
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 欠考虑地
sense_list:
(baseball, of the ball) While in the air, without having touched the ground. | (idiomatic) Spontaneously or extemporaneously; done as one goes, or during another activity.


lexentry: eng/on_the_way__Prepositional_phrase__1
written_rep: on the way
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 路上
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Coming; approaching. | On the direct route that one intends to travel. | While travelling.


lexentry: eng/once_upon_a_time__Adverb__1
written_rep: once upon a time
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 从前
sense_list:
A long time ago; at some time in the past (a traditional beginning of children's stories, especially fairy tales).


lexentry: eng/oncology__Noun__1
written_rep: oncology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 肿瘤学
sense_list:
The branch of medicine concerned with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.


lexentry: eng/ondol__Noun__1
written_rep: ondol
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 溫突
sense_list:
A Korean form of underfloor heating that uses direct heat transfer from wood smoke to the underside of a thick masonry floor.


lexentry: eng/one__Determiner__1
written_rep: one
part_of_speech: determiner
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 一
sense_list:
A single. | Being a preeminent example. | Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".


lexentry: eng/one__Noun__1
written_rep: one
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 一
sense_list:
The digit or figure 1. | (mathematics) The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.


lexentry: eng/one_for_all,_all_for_one__Phrase__1
written_rep: one for all, all for one
part_of_speech: phraseologicalUnit
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 人人为我，我为人人
sense_list:
Each individual should act for the benefit of the group, and the group should act for the benefit of each individual.


lexentry: eng/one_o'clock__Noun__1
written_rep: one o'clock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 小时
sense_list:
(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the second hour of the day; 1:00 a.m. (01:00).


lexentry: eng/one_swallow_does_not_a_summer_make__Proverb__1
written_rep: one swallow does not a summer make
part_of_speech: proverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 独燕不成春
sense_list:
One instance of an event (such as the arrival of a single bird) does not necessarily indicate a trend.


lexentry: eng/onerous__Adjective__1
written_rep: onerous
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 力
sense_list:
Imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort; burdensome.


lexentry: eng/online__Adjective__1
written_rep: online
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 网上
sense_list:
Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service. | Of a system: connected (generally electrically) to a larger network. | Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.


lexentry: eng/onomatopoeia__Noun__1
written_rep: onomatopoeia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 拟声词
sense_list:
(uncountable) The property of a word that sounds like what it represents. | (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss".


lexentry: eng/ontology__Noun__1
written_rep: ontology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 本体论
sense_list:
(uncountable, philosophy) The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being. | (countable, computer science, information science) A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.


lexentry: eng/opal__Noun__1
written_rep: opal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 蛋白石
sense_list:
(mineral) A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity, of the chemical formula SiO2·nH2O.


lexentry: eng/open-pit_mine__Noun__1
written_rep: open-pit mine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 露天採礦廠
sense_list:
A type of mine where rock or minerals are extracted from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow.


lexentry: eng/open__Adjective__1
written_rep: open
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 開着
sense_list:
(comparable) Receptive. | (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business. | (not comparable) Public. | Not settled; not decided or determined; not withdrawn from consideration. | (mathematics, topology, of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.


lexentry: eng/open__Adjective__1
written_rep: open
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 真心
sense_list:
(sports, and, games) Characterised by free-flowing play. | Of a person, not concealing their feelings, opinions, etc.; candid, ingenuous.


lexentry: eng/open__Verb__1
written_rep: open
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 开
sense_list:
(computing, transitive, intransitive) To connect to a resource (a file, document, etc.) for viewing or editing. | (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.


lexentry: eng/open_letter__Noun__1
written_rep: open letter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 公开信
sense_list:
A letter addressed to one person, or more, but published (as for example in a newspaper) for the public to read.


lexentry: eng/open_sesame__Noun__1
written_rep: open sesame
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 芝麻
sense_list:
Any successful means of achieving a result, especially means that are magical or technical, or otherwise beyond the understanding of most people.


lexentry: eng/open_set__Noun__1
written_rep: open set
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 开集
sense_list:
(topology) Informally, a set such that the target point of a movement by a small amount in any direction from any point in the set is still in the set; exemplified by a full circle without its boundary.


lexentry: eng/open_up__Verb__1
written_rep: open up
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 开
sense_list:
(intransitive) To reveal oneself; to share personal information about oneself; to become communicative.


lexentry: eng/open_world__Noun__1
written_rep: open world
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 沙坑
sense_list:
(video games, also, attributive) A gameworld that the player may traverse freely, rather than being restricted to certain predefined areas and quests. [from early 21st c.]


lexentry: eng/opencast__Adjective__1
written_rep: opencast
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 露天採礦廠
sense_list:
(chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed


lexentry: eng/opera__Noun__1
written_rep: opera
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 歌剧
sense_list:
(music) The score for such a work. | (music) The genre of such works, the art of composing operas. | A company dedicated to performing such works.


lexentry: eng/operate__Verb__1
written_rep: operate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 工作
sense_list:
(transitive, or, intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.


lexentry: eng/operating_system__Noun__1
written_rep: operating system
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 作業系統 | 操作系统
sense_list:
(computing, software) Software that is designed for controlling the allocation and the use of various hardware resources to tasks and remote terminals.


lexentry: eng/operation__Noun__1
written_rep: operation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 手術
sense_list:
(uncountable) The method by which a device performs its function. | (uncountable) The method or practice by which actions are done. | (countable, medicine) A surgical procedure. | (computing, logic, mathematics, countable) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).


lexentry: eng/operation__Noun__1
written_rep: operation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 手术
sense_list:
(countable) A planned undertaking. | (military, countable) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).


lexentry: eng/ophthalmologist__Noun__1
written_rep: ophthalmologist
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 眼科醫生 眼科医生
sense_list:
A medical doctor specializing in the eye: deficiencies of vision requiring correction, and diseases. Compare optometrist.


lexentry: eng/opinion__Noun__1
written_rep: opinion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 意见
sense_list:
A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.


lexentry: eng/opium__Noun__1
written_rep: opium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鸦片
sense_list:
(uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine. | (by extension, countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.


lexentry: eng/opportunism__Noun__1
written_rep: opportunism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 机会主义
sense_list:
(Marxism) The political line of Communist Party members who zealously support the Party, but whose trait is that they yield to the mood of the moment, they are unable to resist what is fashionable, leading to the sacrifice of the permanent and essential interests of the Party to the momentary and minor interests.


lexentry: eng/opportunist__Noun__1
written_rep: opportunist
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 机会主义者
sense_list:
Someone who takes advantage of any opportunity to advance their own situation, placing expediency above principle.


lexentry: eng/oppose__Verb__1
written_rep: oppose
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 反對
sense_list:
To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.


lexentry: eng/opposition__Noun__1
written_rep: opposition
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 反對
sense_list:
The action of opposing or of being in conflict. | (politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.


lexentry: eng/optic__Adjective__1
written_rep: optic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 光学 [guāngxué]
sense_list:
(relational) Of, or relating to the eye or to vision. | (optics, relational) Of, or relating to optics or optical instruments.


lexentry: eng/optic_nerve__Noun__1
written_rep: optic nerve
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 视神经
sense_list:
(neuroanatomy) Each of the second pair of cranial nerves that carry visual information from the retina to the brain.


lexentry: eng/optical_fibre__Noun__1
written_rep: optical fibre
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 光导纤维
sense_list:
(British spelling) A thin, transparent, flexible fibre, made of glass or plastic, used for transmitting light.


lexentry: eng/optimism__Noun__1
written_rep: optimism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 乐观主义
sense_list:
a tendency to expect the best, or at least, a favourable outcome | the doctrine that this world is the best of all possible worlds | the belief that good will eventually triumph over evil


lexentry: eng/optimistic__Adjective__1
written_rep: optimistic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 乐观
sense_list:
Expecting the best in all possible ways. | (computing) Allowing other processes to perform transactions on the same data at the same time, and checking for conflicts only when changes need to be written back.


lexentry: eng/or__Conjunction__1
written_rep: or
part_of_speech: conjunction
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 或者 | 或
sense_list:
(logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).


lexentry: eng/oracle__Noun__1
written_rep: oracle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 神谕
sense_list:
A shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity. | A prophetic response, often enigmatic or allegorical, so given. | A person considered to be a source of wisdom.


lexentry: eng/orange__Noun__1
written_rep: orange
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 橙 | 橙子
sense_list:
(countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.


lexentry: eng/orange__Noun__1
written_rep: orange
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 橙 | 橙色
sense_list:
An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial. | An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.


lexentry: eng/orangutan__Noun__1
written_rep: orangutan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 猩猩
sense_list:
An arboreal ape, characterised by their shaggy reddish-brown coat and long arms, which comprise the genus Pongo, native to Borneo and Sumatra.


lexentry: eng/orb__Noun__1
written_rep: orb
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 球体
sense_list:
Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions


lexentry: eng/orbit__Noun__1
written_rep: orbit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 軌道
sense_list:
(pinball) A path for the ball on the outer edge of the playfield, usually connected so that the ball entering in one end will come out of the other.


lexentry: eng/orchestra__Noun__1
written_rep: orchestra
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 管弦樂團
sense_list:
(music) A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.


lexentry: eng/orchid__Noun__1
written_rep: orchid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 兰花 | 兰
sense_list:
A plant of the orchid family (Orchidaceae), bearing unusually-shaped flowers of beautiful colours. [mid-19th c.]


lexentry: eng/order__Noun__1
written_rep: order
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 目
sense_list:
(countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | (countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.


lexentry: eng/ordered_pair__Noun__1
written_rep: ordered pair
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 力矩
sense_list:
(set theory) An object containing exactly two elements in a fixed order, so that, when the elements are different, exchanging them gives a different object. Notation: (a, b) or \langle a, b\rangle.


lexentry: eng/ordinal_number__Noun__1
written_rep: ordinal number
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 原子序
sense_list:
(grammar) A word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence. | (arithmetic) A natural number used to denote position in a sequence. | (set theory) Such a number generalised to correspond to any cardinal number (the size of some set); formally, the order type of some well-ordered set of some cardinality a, which represents an equivalence class of well-ordered sets (exactly those of cardinality a) under the equivalence relation "existence of an order-preserving bijection".


lexentry: eng/ordinate__Noun__1
written_rep: ordinate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 纵坐标
sense_list:
(geometry) The second of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.


lexentry: eng/organ__Noun__1
written_rep: organ
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 風琴
sense_list:
(musical instruments) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.


lexentry: eng/organelle__Noun__1
written_rep: organelle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 細胞器
sense_list:
(cytology) A specialized structure found inside cells that carries out a specific life process (e.g. ribosomes, vacuoles).


lexentry: eng/organic__Adjective__1
written_rep: organic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 有机
sense_list:
(physiology, medicine) Pertaining to an organ of the body of a living organism. | (chemistry) Relating to the compounds of carbon, relating to natural products.


lexentry: eng/organic_chemistry__Noun__1
written_rep: organic chemistry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 有机化学
sense_list:
(chemistry) The chemistry of organic compounds (that is, chemical compounds with carbon atoms in a covalent bond).


lexentry: eng/organic_farming__Noun__1
written_rep: organic farming
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 有机农业
sense_list:
(agriculture) An approach to farming based on biological methods that avoid the use of synthetic crop or livestock production inputs and on a broadly defined philosophy of farming that puts value on ecological harmony, resource efficiency, and non-intensive animal husbandry practices.


lexentry: eng/organism__Noun__1
written_rep: organism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 生物
sense_list:
Something with many separate interdependent parts, seen as being like a living thing; an organic system. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/organization__Noun__1
written_rep: organization
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 组织
sense_list:
(uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article. | (countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules. | (countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.


lexentry: eng/organization_chart__Noun__1
written_rep: organization chart
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 組織圖
sense_list:
(management) A graphic display of reporting relationships in an organization, sometimes displaying position titles and position holders.


lexentry: eng/organized_crime__Noun__1
written_rep: organized crime
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 組織犯罪
sense_list:
A large criminal organization, or a group of such organizations, that deals in illegal goods and services. | The crimes perpetrated by those organizations.


lexentry: eng/orgasm__Noun__1
written_rep: orgasm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 高潮
sense_list:
A rush of sexual excitement; now specifically, the climax or peak of sexual pleasure, which occurs during sexual activity and which in males may include ejaculation and in females vaginal contractions. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/orientalism__Noun__1
written_rep: orientalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 东方主义
sense_list:
(arts, architecture, literature) The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East.


lexentry: eng/orientation__Noun__1
written_rep: orientation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: 新生訓練
sense_list:
(education) Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.


lexentry: eng/origin__Noun__1
written_rep: origin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 原因
sense_list:
The beginning of something. | The source of a river, information, goods, etc. | (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect. | (in the plural) Ancestry.


lexentry: eng/original_sin__Noun__1
written_rep: original sin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 原罪
sense_list:
(Christianity) The state of sinfulness, present in each human from birth, which is a result of Adam's disobedience.


lexentry: eng/originality__Noun__1
written_rep: originality
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 创造性
sense_list:
(uncountable) The quality of being original or novel. | (uncountable) The capacity to think independently or be inventive. | (countable) Something original.


lexentry: eng/originate__Verb__1
written_rep: originate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 制造
sense_list:
(transitive) To cause (someone or something) to be; to bring (someone or something) into existence; to produce or initiate a person or thing. [from 17th c.] | (intransitive) To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with). [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/ornament__Noun__1
written_rep: ornament
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 装饰品
sense_list:
An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns. | (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.


lexentry: eng/orotic_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: orotic acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 乳清酸
sense_list:
(biochemistry) A crystalline acid which was discovered in milk and is a growth factor for various microorganisms (as Lactobacillus bulgaricus) and an intermediate in pyrimidine biosynthesis; uracil-6-carboxylic acid, C5H4N2O4.


lexentry: eng/orpiment__Noun__1
written_rep: orpiment
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 雌黃
sense_list:
Arsenic trisulphide, occurring naturally in crystals or massive deposits, formerly used as a dye or pigment.


lexentry: eng/orthogenesis__Noun__1
written_rep: orthogenesis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 定向演化
sense_list:
(evolutionary theory, historical) The hypothesis that evolution tends toward a certain goal, at least at some scales.


lexentry: eng/orthogonal__Adjective__1
written_rep: orthogonal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 自主
sense_list:
(software engineering) Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately; of a design, exhibiting consistency and composability.


lexentry: eng/orthography__Noun__1
written_rep: orthography
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 正字法
sense_list:
(countable) A method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols; spelling. | (uncountable) Correct spelling according to established usage; also (obsolete) pronunciation according to the spelling of a word. | (uncountable) The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words; the study of spelling.


lexentry: eng/orthopedics__Noun__1
written_rep: orthopedics
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 骨外科
sense_list:
(medicine) The branch of medicine that deals with the prevention or correction of disorders of the bones and associated muscles and joints


lexentry: eng/oscilloscope__Noun__1
written_rep: oscilloscope
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 示波器
sense_list:
An electronic measuring instrument that creates a visible two-dimensional graph, on a screen, of one or more continuously varying voltages or currents.


lexentry: eng/osmium__Noun__1
written_rep: osmium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 鋨 | 锇
sense_list:
A chemical element (symbol Os) with atomic number 76: a hard, brittle, heavy, bluish-white transition metal found as a trace element in alloys, mostly in platinum ores.


lexentry: eng/osmosis__Noun__1
written_rep: osmosis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 渗透
sense_list:
(chemistry) The net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration through a partially permeable membrane.


lexentry: eng/osteoarthritis__Noun__1
written_rep: osteoarthritis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 骨关节炎
sense_list:
(medicine) A form of arthritis, affecting mainly older people, caused by chronic degeneration of the cartilage and synovial membrane of the joints, leading to pain and stiffness.


lexentry: eng/osteoporosis__Noun__1
written_rep: osteoporosis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 骨質疏鬆症
sense_list:
(pathology) A disease, occurring especially in women following menopause, in which the bones become extremely porous and are subject to fracture.


lexentry: eng/ostracism__Noun__1
written_rep: ostracism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 陶片放逐制
sense_list:
(historical) In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state. [from 16th c.] | Temporary exclusion from a community or society.


lexentry: eng/otaku__Noun__1
written_rep: otaku
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 御宅族
sense_list:
(fandom) One with an obsessive interest in something, particularly (originally, _, pejorative) an obsessive Japanese fan of anime or manga.


lexentry: eng/ottava_rima__Noun__1
written_rep: ottava rima
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 八元数
sense_list:
(poetry) An arrangement of stanzas of eight lines in heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet (ab ab ab cc).


lexentry: eng/ottoman__Noun__1
written_rep: ottoman
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 奧斯曼
sense_list:
(textiles) A fabric with a pronounced ribbed or corded effect, often made of silk or a mixture of cotton and silk-like yarns.


lexentry: eng/ouch__Interjection__1
written_rep: ouch
part_of_speech: interjection
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 哎哟
sense_list:
An expression of one's own physical pain. | An expression in sympathy at another's pain. | A reply to an insult seen as savage (frequently one that is tongue-in-cheek or joking).


lexentry: eng/ought__Verb__2
written_rep: ought
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 应当
sense_list:
(auxiliary, formal, dated) Indicating duty or obligation. | (auxiliary, formal, dated) Indicating advisability or prudence. | (auxiliary, formal, dated) Indicating desirability. | (auxiliary, formal, dated) Indicating likelihood or probability.


lexentry: eng/our__Determiner__1
written_rep: our
part_of_speech: determiner
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 我們的
sense_list:
Belonging to us, excluding the person(s) being addressed (exclusive our). | Belonging to us, including the person(s) being addressed (inclusive our).


lexentry: eng/ours__Pronoun__1
written_rep: ours
part_of_speech: pronoun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 我们的
sense_list:
(colloquial, may seem patronising) That or those belonging to an individual being addressed; used especially to a person in the speaker's care, or to whom advice or instruction is being given.


lexentry: eng/ourselves__Pronoun__1
written_rep: ourselves
part_of_speech: pronoun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 我们
sense_list:
(reflexive) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.


lexentry: eng/ourselves__Pronoun__1
written_rep: ourselves
part_of_speech: pronoun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 同一
sense_list:
(emphatic) Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.


lexentry: eng/out__Adverb__1
written_rep: out
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 外面
sense_list:
(sports) Of the ball or other playing implement, so as to pass or be situated beyond the bounds of the playing area.


lexentry: eng/out__Interjection__1
written_rep: out
part_of_speech: interjection
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 嘘
sense_list:
(procedure word, especially, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response.


lexentry: eng/out_of_date__Prepositional_phrase__1
written_rep: out of date
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 陈旧
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Too old to be used; not current; invalid; having expired. | (idiomatic) Not conforming to the current fashion or style; old-fashioned; outmoded.


lexentry: eng/out_of_print__Prepositional_phrase__1
written_rep: out of print
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 累坏
sense_list:
(publishing, music industry) Not available from the publisher (of a printed work, especially a book, or a music release).


lexentry: eng/out_of_the_frying_pan,_into_the_fire__Prepositional_phrase__1
written_rep: out of the frying pan, into the fire
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 一波未平，一波又起
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Move or get from an already bad situation to a worse one; end up in a worse situation when trying to escape from a bad or difficult one.


lexentry: eng/outbreak__Noun__1
written_rep: outbreak
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 爆炸
sense_list:
A sudden increase. | (figurative) An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.


lexentry: eng/outbuilding__Noun__1
written_rep: outbuilding
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 依赖性
sense_list:
A building, such as a barn, shed, or garage, that is separate from, but associated with some main building.


lexentry: eng/outdoors__Noun__1
written_rep: outdoors
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 大自然
sense_list:
(often preceded by the) The natural environment in the open air, countryside away from cities and buildings.


lexentry: eng/outer_ear__Noun__1
written_rep: outer ear
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 外耳
sense_list:
(anatomy) The outer portion of the ear which includes the auricle/pinna and the ear canal and leads to the eardrum.


lexentry: eng/output__Noun__1
written_rep: output
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 离开
sense_list:
(computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another.


lexentry: eng/output__Verb__1
written_rep: output
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 发
sense_list:
(computing) To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another.


lexentry: eng/outside__Adverb__1
written_rep: outside
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 外邊
sense_list:
To or in the outdoors or outside; to or in an area that is beyond the scope, limits, or borders of a given place.


lexentry: eng/ovary__Noun__1
written_rep: ovary
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 卵巢
sense_list:
(anatomy) A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova in most animals, and in mammals, secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.


lexentry: eng/over__Preposition__1
written_rep: over
part_of_speech: preposition
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: 经过
sense_list:
In a position of having overcome (a problem or issue); past; finished with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two.


lexentry: eng/overage__Noun__1
written_rep: overage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 余多
sense_list:
Excess; a state of being more than it ought to be. | (property law) Any additional sums payable following the purchase of land, calculated on a prearranged basis, on the occurrence of certain specified events that are deemed to increase the value of that land; usually in the context of the development and further sale of that land.


lexentry: eng/overall__Noun__1
written_rep: overall
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 工作
sense_list:
(British) A garment worn over other clothing to protect it; a coverall or boiler suit. A garment, for manual labor or for casual wear, often made of a single piece of fabric, with long legs and a bib upper, supported from the shoulders with straps, and having several large pockets and loops for carrying tools.


lexentry: eng/overflow__Verb__1
written_rep: overflow
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 流
sense_list:
(transitive) To flow over the brim of (a container). | (intransitive) To flow over the brim of a container.


lexentry: eng/overnight__Adjective__1
written_rep: overnight
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 夜曲
sense_list:
Occurring between dusk and dawn. | Complete before the next morning. | For which participants stay overnight.


lexentry: eng/ovine__Adjective__1
written_rep: ovine
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 綿羊
sense_list:
(comparable) Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep; also, (not comparable) of an animal: from the genus Ovis.


lexentry: eng/ovine__Noun__1
written_rep: ovine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 羊
sense_list:
An animal from the genus Ovis; a sheep. | (figurative) A person regarded as resembling a sheep in character; one who is acquiescent, easily influenced, passive, or willing to follow a leader blindly; a sheep.


lexentry: eng/ovule__Noun__1
written_rep: ovule
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 卵细胞
sense_list:
(botany) The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments. | (zoology) An immature ovum in mammals.


lexentry: eng/oware__Noun__1
written_rep: oware
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 西非播棋
sense_list:
(games) A board game of the mancala family which originated in Africa, and is reputedly the oldest game in the world.


lexentry: eng/owe__Verb__1
written_rep: owe
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 欠
sense_list:
(ditransitive) To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone. | (intransitive) To have debt; to be in debt.


lexentry: eng/owl__Noun__1
written_rep: owl
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 猫头鹰 | 鴞
sense_list:
Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes, families Strigidae and Tytonidae, that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing. [from 8th c.]


lexentry: eng/own__Adjective__1
written_rep: own
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 自己的
sense_list:
Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.


lexentry: eng/own_goal__Noun__1
written_rep: own goal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 烏龍球
sense_list:
(sports) A goal that results from a player putting the ball or puck into the goal of their own team; the resulting goal being scored for the opposition.


lexentry: eng/oxalic_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: oxalic acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 草酸
sense_list:
(carboxylic acid) A colourless, crystalline dicarboxylic acid, (COOH)2, found in rhubarb, spinach and other plants, often as crystals of the calcium salt.


lexentry: eng/oxbow_lake__Noun__1
written_rep: oxbow lake
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 河迹湖
sense_list:
A crescent-shaped lake formed near a flat-valleyed river when one of its meanders becomes pinched off and isolated.


lexentry: eng/oxidation__Noun__1
written_rep: oxidation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 氧化
sense_list:
The combination of a substance with oxygen. | (chemistry) A reaction in which the atoms of an element lose electrons and the oxidation state of the element increases.


lexentry: eng/oxidizing_agent__Noun__1
written_rep: oxidizing agent
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 氧化剂
sense_list:
(chemistry) Any substance that oxidizes, or receives electrons from, another; in so doing, it becomes reduced.


lexentry: eng/oxygen__Noun__1
written_rep: oxygen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 氧 | 氧气
sense_list:
The chemical element (symbol O) with an atomic number of 8 and relative atomic mass of 15.9994. It is a colorless and odorless gas.


lexentry: eng/oxytocin__Noun__1
written_rep: oxytocin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 催产素
sense_list:
(hormone) A hormone that stimulates contractions during labor, and then the production of milk; also plays a role in social bonding.


lexentry: eng/oyster__Noun__1
written_rep: oyster
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 牡蛎
sense_list:
Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. | (colloquial, by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.


lexentry: eng/oyster_mushroom__Noun__1
written_rep: oyster mushroom
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 平菇
sense_list:
(US) The mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus, which in the wild grows chiefly on hardwood trees, and is cultivated for food.


lexentry: eng/oyster_plant__Noun__1
written_rep: oyster plant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: 下巴
sense_list:
Tragopogon porrifolius (common salsify, vegetable oyster, purple salsify, Jerusalem star), cultivated for its light-skinned edible root


lexentry: eng/ozone__Noun__1
written_rep: ozone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 臭氧
sense_list:
(inorganic chemistry) An allotrope of oxygen (symbol O₃) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a toxic gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge. | (Britain, informal) Fresh air, especially that breathed at the seaside and smelling of seaweed.


lexentry: eng/ozone_layer__Noun__1
written_rep: ozone layer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 臭氧层
sense_list:
A region of the stratosphere, between 15 and 30 kilometres in altitude, containing a relatively high concentration of ozone, which absorbs most solar ultraviolet radiation.


lexentry: eng/p.m.__Adverb__1
written_rep: p.m.
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 下午
sense_list:
(used after the hour) In the 12-hour period from noon to midnight (the latter half of the day) when using the 12-hour clock.


lexentry: eng/pace__Noun__1
written_rep: pace
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 不
sense_list:
A step. | The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/pace__Noun__1
written_rep: pace
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 步
sense_list:
A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. [from 14th c.] | (cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/pacemaker__Noun__1
written_rep: pacemaker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 心脏起搏器
sense_list:
(hence, medicine) A medical implement that is used to stimulate a heart to beat by simulating the action of the natural pacemaker.


lexentry: eng/pacifier__Noun__1
written_rep: pacifier
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 奶嘴
sense_list:
(North America) A rubber or plastic device imitating a nipple that goes into a baby’s mouth, used to calm and quiet the baby. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/pacifism__Noun__1
written_rep: pacifism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 和平主义 | 和平主義
sense_list:
The conviction that it is morally wrong to settle disputes (especially between countries) by war or other violent means. [from c. 1900]


lexentry: eng/pack__Noun__1
written_rep: pack
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 包
sense_list:
A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.


lexentry: eng/pack__Verb__1
written_rep: pack
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 包
sense_list:
(physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.


lexentry: eng/pack__Verb__1
written_rep: pack
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 打包
sense_list:
(transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack


lexentry: eng/package__Noun__1
written_rep: package
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 包
sense_list:
Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope. | Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software. | (software) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager. | Something resembling a package. | A package holiday. | (euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.


lexentry: eng/package__Verb__1
written_rep: package
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 打包
sense_list:
To pack or bundle something. | To prepare (a book, a television series, etc.), including all stages from research to production, in order to sell the result to a publisher or broadcaster.


lexentry: eng/packed_lunch__Noun__1
written_rep: packed lunch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 便當
sense_list:
A meal, sandwiches or anything packed and intended to be eaten away from home; especially, one packed at home as opposed to a portable packaged lunch from a vendor.


lexentry: eng/pad__Noun__1
written_rep: pad
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 爪垫
sense_list:
A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on. | A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame. | A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals. | The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.


lexentry: eng/paddle__Noun__1
written_rep: paddle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 槳
sense_list:
A two-handed implement consisting of a shaft with one or two blades attached to the end(s) used to propel a canoe, kayak or a small boat. A paddle is unattached to the boat and freely operated with the hands, compared with an oar which is attached to the boat at a pivot point.


lexentry: eng/paddlefish__Noun__1
written_rep: paddlefish
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 匙吻鱘
sense_list:
Any of several primitive fish, of the family Polyodontidae, that have a long snout shaped like a paddle.


lexentry: eng/paddy__Noun__1
written_rep: paddy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 水田
sense_list:
(countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/page__Noun__1
written_rep: page
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: 页 | 頁
sense_list:
(computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.


lexentry: eng/pagination__Noun__1
written_rep: pagination
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 编页
sense_list:
The act of creating pages for a document, book, etc., or determining when to truncate text on the pages.


lexentry: eng/pagoda__Noun__1
written_rep: pagoda
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 塔
sense_list:
A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/pain__Noun__1
written_rep: pain
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 疼痛
sense_list:
(countable, and, uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.


lexentry: eng/pain__Noun__1
written_rep: pain
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 痛
sense_list:
(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress


lexentry: eng/paint__Verb__1
written_rep: paint
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 画
sense_list:
(transitive) To apply paint to. | (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied. | (transitive, medicine) To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part. | (transitive) To create (an image) with paints. | (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.


lexentry: eng/pair__Noun__1
written_rep: pair
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 雙
sense_list:
Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship. | (cards) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.


lexentry: eng/pair__Noun__1
written_rep: pair
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 15
trans_list: 关节
sense_list:
(kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.


lexentry: eng/pair_of_compasses__Noun__1
written_rep: pair of compasses
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 圆规
sense_list:
A tool for drawing accurate circles or circular arcs, or for measuring or transferring lengths, usually consisting of two arms joined with an adjustable hinge at one end; until the middle ages both arms always had metal points at their free ends (this version is now called a divider or pair of dividers), but in recent centuries for a device called a compass or pair of compasses, one arm typically holds a ruling pen, pencil, or some other implement for making marks.


lexentry: eng/pajamas__Noun__1
written_rep: pajamas
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 睡衣
sense_list:
Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers.


lexentry: eng/palatalization__Noun__1
written_rep: palatalization
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 腭化
sense_list:
(phonology, uncountable) The state or quality of being palatalized, of pronouncing a sound with the tongue against the palate of the mouth that normally is not. | (phonology, countable) An instance of pronunciation in which a sound is palatalized.


lexentry: eng/palate__Noun__1
written_rep: palate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 上顎
sense_list:
(anatomy) The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/pale__Adjective__1
written_rep: pale
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 苍白
sense_list:
Light in color. | (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).


lexentry: eng/pale__Noun__2
written_rep: pale
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 国境
sense_list:
(by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of). | (historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live (the Pale of Settlement).


lexentry: eng/paleography__Noun__1
written_rep: paleography
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 古文字学
sense_list:
The study of old or ancient forms of writing. | Ancient scripts or forms of writing themselves, as uncial, scriptio continua, or methods of using papyrus scrolls.


lexentry: eng/paleontology__Noun__1
written_rep: paleontology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 古生物学
sense_list:
(American spelling) The study of the forms of life existing in prehistoric or geologic times, especially as represented by fossils.


lexentry: eng/palindrome__Noun__1
written_rep: palindrome
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 回文
sense_list:
A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.


lexentry: eng/pall__Noun__1
written_rep: pall
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 珍珠
sense_list:
(heraldic charge) A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.


lexentry: eng/pallet__Noun__1
written_rep: pallet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: 調色板
sense_list:
A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.


lexentry: eng/palm__Noun__2
written_rep: palm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 棕榈
sense_list:
The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand or other primate hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.


lexentry: eng/palm_oil__Noun__1
written_rep: palm oil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 棕榈油
sense_list:
An edible plant oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis).


lexentry: eng/palm_tree__Noun__1
written_rep: palm tree
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 棕櫚
sense_list:
A tree of the family Arecaceae usually characterised by having a single stem or trunk, directly from which sprout several leaves or fronds giving a shape like an outstretched hand.


lexentry: eng/palmitic_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: palmitic acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 棕榈酸
sense_list:
(fatty acid) One of the most common saturated fatty acids; it is found in all animal and most vegetable oils and fats; it is used in the manufacture of soap etc.


lexentry: eng/palpate__Verb__1
written_rep: palpate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 触诊
sense_list:
To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly (medical) in reference to an area or organ of the human body.


lexentry: eng/palpitation__Noun__1
written_rep: palpitation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 心悸
sense_list:
An abnormal beating of the heart that may be perceived by the patient, a result of excitement, exertion, or illness.


lexentry: eng/pamphlet__Noun__1
written_rep: pamphlet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 小册子
sense_list:
A small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover, formerly containing literary compositions, newsletters, and newspapers, but now chiefly informational matter.


lexentry: eng/pan_and_scan__Noun__1
written_rep: pan and scan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 平底鍋和掃瞄 | 平底锅和扫瞄
sense_list:
(uncountable, film) The method or practice of adjusting widescreen film images, especially 2.35:1 or 2.39:1 aspect ratio, so that they can be shown within the proportions of a 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 aspect ratio television screen, by cropping off sides of the original widescreen image, as opposed to letterboxing.


lexentry: eng/panacea__Noun__1
written_rep: panacea
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 万灵药
sense_list:
A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all. | A solution to all problems.


lexentry: eng/pancake__Noun__1
written_rep: pancake
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 薄烤饼
sense_list:
(countable, and, uncountable) A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:


lexentry: eng/pancreas__Noun__1
written_rep: pancreas
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 胰脏
sense_list:
(anatomy) A gland near the stomach which secretes a fluid into the duodenum to assist with food digestion.


lexentry: eng/panda__Noun__1
written_rep: panda
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 熊貓
sense_list:
(colloquial, also, attributively) Ellipsis of giant panda (“Ailuropoda melanoleuca”). [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/pandect__Noun__1
written_rep: pandect
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: 易消化的
sense_list:
(by extension, rare) Also in the plural form pandects: a comprehensive collection of laws; specifically, the whole body of law of a country; a legal code.


lexentry: eng/pandeism__Noun__1
written_rep: pandeism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 泛自然神論 | 泛自然神论
sense_list:
(religion) A belief in a god who is both pantheistic and deistic, in particular a god who designed the universe and then became it and ceased to exist separately and act consciously with respect to it.


lexentry: eng/pandemic__Noun__1
written_rep: pandemic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: 瘟疫 | 大流行病
sense_list:
(epidemiology) A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.


