单词 | china |
释义 | china1/ˈtʃʌɪnə /noun 1 [mass noun] A fine white or translucent vitrified ceramic material: a plate made of china [as modifier]: a china cup...
1.1Household tableware or other objects made from china or a similar material: she had begun to remove the breakfast china...
Synonyms porcelain dishes, plates, cups and saucers, crockery, dinner service, tea service; tableware, ware; North American dinnerware; Irish delph 2British informal A friend.Keep doing that chinas, and this just might be precisely the case! From rhyming slang china plate 'mate' OriginLate 16th century (as an adjective): from Persian chīnī 'relating to China', where it was originally made. RhymesChina2/ˈtʃʌɪnə /A country in East Asia, the third largest and most populous in the world; population 1,338,613,000 (est. 2009); language, Chinese (of which Mandarin is the official form); capital, Beijing. Official name People's Republic of China. Chinese civilization stretches back until at least the 3rd millennium bc, the country being ruled by a series of dynasties until the Qing (or Manchu) dynasty was overthrown by Sun Yat-sen in 1911; China was proclaimed a republic the following year. After the Second World War the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek was overthrown by the communists under Mao Zedong, the People’s Republic of China being declared in 1949. Market-oriented reforms were introduced in the last quarter of the twentieth century |
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