"Bunch" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 shù to bind / bunch / bundle / classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc / to control
 chuàn to string together / to skewer / to connect wrongly / to gang up / to rove / string / bunch / skewer / classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of / to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus) / to move across
 dū lu bunch / cluster / classifier for bunched objects / to hang down in a bunch / to droop
 cù crowded / framework for silkworms / gather foliage / bunch / classifier for bunched objects
 guǒ suì ear (of corn or sorghum etc) / bunch (of grapes) / infructescence
 jīng xuǎn carefully chosen / handpicked / best of the bunch / choice (product) / concentration (mining) / to concentrate / to winnow
 hēi bāng bunch of gangsters / criminal gang / organized crime syndicate
 chéng chuàn to be lined up (like a chain of islands, a string of pearls etc) / to form a cluster (like a bunch of grapes) / to come one after the other (like a series of sighs)
 kǔn variant of 捆|捆[kun3] / a bunch / to tie together / bundle
 yōng rén zì rǎo lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom) / fig. to get upset over nothing / to make problems for oneself
 fèi huà lián piān a bunch of nonsense / verbose and rambling
 xué bō bunch planting
 yàn què wū què lit. sparrow and swallow, crow and magpie / fig. any Tom, Dick or Harry / a bunch of nobodies
 huā cù bunch of flowers / bouquet
 yī pài hú yán a bunch of nonsense
 yī lì lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō zhōu lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
 yī kē lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō tāng lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
 xiān huā chā zài niú fèn shàng lit. a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure / fig. a terrible shame (as when a lovely woman marries an odious man)
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