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绷带
bēng dài



绷带
bandage


Definitions

Chinese > English
绷带
     1. Simplified form of 繃帶
繃帶bēngdài
     1. n. bandage
           你 需要 用 繃帶 包紮 你 的 傷口。 - You need to wrap your wound in a bandage.
     2. n. (literary, obsolete) swaddling clothes (for a baby)
     3. n. (cat, cmn, Elementary Mandarin)
English > Chinese
bandage
     1. 绷带
Components
     1. Simplified form of 繃
bēng
     1. to stretch; to draw firmly; to strap
     2. to brace; to taut
     3. (of an object) to spring up; to bounce
     4. (literary, or in compounds, crafts) embroidery frame
     5. (literary, or in compounds) bed frame
     6. sling, piece of cloth used to carry a baby on one's back
     7. (dialectal) to swindle; to cheat
     8. (internet slang) Short for 繃不住 (to burst out laughing)
     9. to strain one's muscles
     10. to pull one's face
     11. (Cantonese) to stretch, to set up (a mosquito net, a banner, etc)
     12. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 掹 (to pull)
     13. (chiefly Beijing Mandarin Southwestern Mandarin Jin) to split open; to crack; Alternative form of 迸
     14. (chiefly Wu Cantonese dialectal Mandarin in reduplication) intensifier used in ideophones
     15. (Wu, Xiang, dialectal Mandarin) very; terribly
     1. Simplified form of 帶
dài
     1. belt; ribbon; tape
           鞋帶 - shoelace
           輸送帶daai3-2 - conveyor belt
     2. tyre
           車帶 - tyre
     3. zone; area; belt
           熱帶 - torrid zone; the tropics
     4. cassette
           錄影帶 - video cassette
           聽 帶daai3-2 - listen to a(n audio) cassette
           睇 帶daai3-2 - watch a (video) cassette
     5. leucorrhoea
     6. to take; to bring along; to carry
           下雨 了,你 帶 傘 了 嗎? - It's raining. Did you bring an umbrella?
           帶 埋 樽 酒 - bring along a bottle of alcohol
           佢哋 話 帶 嘅ge2。 - They said to bring it.
     7. to do something incidentally
     8. to lead; to head
           帶路 - to lead the way
           帶 我 到 這裡 來 - bring me here
     9. to bear; to have
           面 帶 笑容 - with a smile on one’s face
     10. to have something attached
           帶 皮 羊肉 - mutton with skin
           連 說 帶 笑 - to talk and laugh
     11. to contain; to carry
           苦 中 帶 甜 -
           帶 侮辱 性 的 詞彙 - insulting vocabulary
     12. to drive; to spur on
     13. to look after; to bring up
           該 不 該 讓 老人 帶 孩子zi? - Should one let one's parents look after one's children?
     14. (Hokkien) to worry about; to care for
     15. (Hokkien) to involve in trouble; to implicate
     16. (neologism, Internet slang)
     17. (Hokkien, Hainanese) place
     18. (Hainanese) where
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