Results for “地”

four great basin depressions of China, namely: Tarim 塔里木盆地 in south Xinjiang, Jungar 準葛爾盆地|准葛尔盆地 and Tsaidam or Qaidam 柴達木盆地|柴达木盆地 in north Xinjiang Sichuan 四川盆地

return address

(idiom) to use methods in line with local circumstances

staking a claim to territory / enclosure

garden area

land use plan (official P.R.C. government term)

land reform

land resources

(Tw) local / native (from Taiwanese 在地, Tai-lo pr. [tsāi-tē])

underground

to opportunistically raise the price

lit. to blame the heavens and reproach the earth / fig. to rave and rant

track bike / track cycling

landfill

fertile arable soil of loess plateau

enclave (foreign land inside us) / (Tw) exclave (our land outside us)

multicast address / multistation address

Greater London / London region, England

a large landowner

geoid

geodesy

a geodesic (curve)

necropolis

oceanic crust (geology)

(bird species of China) long-billed thrush (Zoothera monticola)

fearing nothing in Heaven or Earth (idiom) / fearless

absolutely fair and reasonable (idiom) / equitable

(idiom) far apart / (idiom) from different places / from all over / (idiom) (to talk) about this and that

lit. a gulf between heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. wide difference of opinion

first line of the Thousand Character Classic 千字文[Qiān zì wén]

in all honesty / truth to tell

(idiom) bitterly cold / frigid

heaven falls and earth rends (idiom) / rocked by a major disaster / fig. violent revolution / major social upheaval

(idiom) poles apart / as different as can be

poles apart (idiom) / entirely different

see 天差地遠|天差地远[tiān chā dì yuǎn]

the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom) / giddy with one's head spinning / fig. huge changes in the world

the time is right, geographical and social conditions are favorable (idiom) / a good time to go to war

catastrophes and unnatural phenomena / Heaven-sent warnings

inescapable net (idiom) / trap / dragnet