"Plans" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 ān pái to arrange / to plan / to set up / arrangements / plans
 tú zhǐ blueprint / drawing / design plans / graph paper
 qiān fāng bǎi jì lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom) / by every possible means
 àn xǐ hidden smile / smirk / to rejoice covertly / secret satisfaction concerning one's evil plans
 jué suàn final account / to calculate the final bill / fig. to draw up plans to deal with sth
 chū móu huà cè to put forward plans and ideas (also derogatory) / to give advice (idiom)
 kōng zhōng lóu gé pavilion in the air (idiom) / unrealistic Utopian construction / castles in Spain / imaginary future plans
 shēn móu yuǎn lu:4 lit. deep plans and distant thoughts / to plan far ahead (idiom)
退 quàn tuì to try to persuade sb to give up (their job, plans etc)
 chāi tái (theater) to dismantle the stage / (fig.) to pull the rug out from under sb's feet / to undermine sb's plans
 xiōng yǒu chéng lu:è the hero has plans already laid (idiom) / to have plans ready in advance / forewarned is forearmed
 xiōng yǒu chéng suàn the hero has plans already laid (idiom) / to have plans ready in advance / forewarned is forearmed
 huá wū qiū xū magnificent building reduced to a mound of rubble (idiom) / fig. all one's plans in ruins
 dào bù tóng bù xiāng wéi móu lit. persons who walk different paths cannot make plans together / to go separate ways (idiom)
 jǐn náng miào jì brocade sack of miracle plans (idiom) / bag of tricks / fiendishly cunning masterplan (written out by strategic genius of fiction, and given to the local commander in a brocade bag)
 yí jiào work or plans left as a legacy / the views of the departed / posthumous orders or teachings
 jiè zhù lit. to borrow chopsticks / to make plans for sb else
 yuān móu profound or erudite plans
 tuō kōng to fail / to come to nothing / to fall through (of plans, hopes) / to lie
 yǐn shēn cǎo legendary grass conferring invisibility / fig. to conceal oneself or one's plans
 tāi sǐ fù zhōng fetus dies in the belly / (fig.) plans or projects failed before being carried out
  Plans and Operations Section
  Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans
沿  Manual on the development and implementation of coastal environmental management plans
  national forestry action plans
  Guide for Countries Preparing National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans
  International Seminar on Family Policy and Plans of Action
  Working Group on Security and Evacuation Plans and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical issues
 jí dá xuān yán Jeddah Declaration: Furthering the implementation of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans towards the sustainable development of the marine and coastal environment / Jeddah Declaration
  Logistics Policy and Plans Section
  Sub-regional Contingency Plans
  Integrated Nuclear Security Support Plans
  Declaration and Framework for Action Plans for the Management of the Asian Environment
  Monitoring of national AIDS prevention and control programmes - medium-term plans
  Global Meeting of Regional Seas Conventions and Actions Plans
  senior plans officer
  plans officer
  Trade Plans and Projections Branch
  deputy senior plans officer
  senior officer, plans and operations liaison officer
  air plans officer
  Annual Purchase Plans
 rén suàn bù rú tiān suàn man proposes, God disposes (idiom) / one's plans can be derailed by unforeseen events
 yǒu yì zāi huā huā bù fā , wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīn lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect / well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it
 xiǎo bù rěn zé luàn dà móu (idiom) great plans can be ruined by just a touch of impatience
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