"Motion" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yùn dòng to move / to exercise / sports / exercise / motion / movement / campaign / CL:場|场[chang3]
 dòng zuò movement / motion / action (CL:個|个[ge4]) / to act / to move
 dòng tài movement / motion / development / trend / dynamic (science)
 yì àn proposal / motion
 tí àn proposal / draft resolution / motion (to be debated) / to propose a bill / to make a proposal
 dòng yì motion / proposal
 xià lai to come down / (completed action marker) / (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.) / (indicates continuation from the past towards us) / to be harvested (of crops) / to be over (of a period of time) / to go among the masses (said of leaders)
 yǐng piàn a copy of a film / film / motion picture / movie / (Tw) video / video clip / CL:部[bu4]
 qǐ dòng to start (a machine) / (fig.) to set in motion / to launch (an operation) / to activate (a plan)
 bō dòng to undulate / to fluctuate / wave motion / rise and fall
 qǐ bù to set out / to set in motion / the start (of some activity)
 xíng jìn to advance / forward motion
 shēn fǎ pose or motion of one's body in martial arts
 dìng gé to fix / to confine to / freeze frame / stop motion (filmmaking)
 kāi dòng to start / to set in motion / to move / to march / to dig in (eating) / to tuck in (eating)
 chōng zhuàng to collide / jerking motion / to impinge / to offend / to provoke
 xīng bàn to begin / to set in motion
 lái to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2lai5]) / ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4gu3 yi3lai2]) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ... / the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2shi4]) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2de5lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1bu5lai2])
宿 xīng xiù constellation (arch., now 星座) / one of the 28 constellations of traditional Chinese astronomy and astrology / motion of stars since one's birth (predetermining one's fate in astrology)
 qù to go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
 shuǐ shàng yùn dòng water sports / aquatic motion / movement over water
 xiān dòng to stir / to lift / to set sth in motion
 màn jìng tóu (cinema) slow motion
 zhí straight / to straighten / fair and reasonable / frank / straightforward / (indicates continuing motion or action) / vertical / vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters
 jiāo biàn half-period of a wave motion / alternation
 shēng mìng zài yú yùn dòng life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations) / Physical effort is vital for our bodies to function (Aristotle). / Life derives from physical exercise.
 fù yì to second a motion
 yǒng dòng jī perpetual motion machine
 màn dòng zuò (cinema) slow motion
 chóng yǐng overlapping images / double exposure of photo (e.g. due to fault or motion of camera) / double vision
 yùn dòng bìng car sickness / motion sickness
 bù xìn rèn àn no-confidence motion
 Kāi pǔ lè Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and formulator of Kepler's laws of planetary motion
 bù lǎng yùn dòng (physics) Brownian motion
 bù xìn rèn dòng yì motion of no confidence (against the government, in parliamentary debates)
 wǎng fù yùn dòng backwards and forwards action (e.g. of piston or pump) / reciprocating motion
 xuán zhuǎn yùn dòng rotation / rotary motion
 jiǎn xié yùn dòng simple harmonic motion (in mechanics) / motion of a simple pendulum
 qiè dié walking / in motion
 yùn dòng dìng lu:4 laws of motion (mechanics)
 yùn dòng fāng chéng equations of motion
 Kāi pǔ lè dìng lu:4 Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1609, 1618)
 shùn xíng circular motion in the same sense as the sun / clockwise
 tǐ gǎn physical sensation / somatosensory / motion sensing (gaming)
  no action motion / motion of non action
 xiàn fǎ dòng yì constitutional motion
  particle motion
  motion sickness
 màn sù dài guī mú huǐ miè xìng wǔ qì weapon of mass destruction in slow motion
姿  vessel motion sensor / vehicle motion sensor
  motion sensor / motion detector
  motion sensor / motion detector
 héng yáo rolling motion (of a boat)
 zòng yáo pitching motion (of a boat)
 zhōu rì yùn dòng (astronomy) diurnal motion
 shí kuàng zhào piàn live photo / motion photo (a still photo with a few seconds of video captured before and after the photo is taken)
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