"Span" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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跨 kuà to step across / to stride over / to straddle / to span
全长 quán cháng overall length / span
纵深 zòng shēn depth (from front to rear) / depth (into a territory) / span (of time) / (fig.) depth (of deployment, progress, development etc)
横跨 héng kuà to span / to stretch across / to travel across
跨度 kuà dù span / horizontal distance between vertical supports
拃 zhǎ span (unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand) / to span (measure with one's hand)
跨径 kuà jìng span (architecture)
跨距 kuà jù (Tw) span (architecture) / time span
寿命 shòu mìng life span / life expectancy / lifetime (of a machine)
天命 Tiān mìng Mandate of Heaven / destiny / fate / one's life span
天年 tiān nián natural life span
有始无终 yǒu shǐ wú zhōng to start but not finish (idiom) / to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span
一曝十寒 yī pù shí hán one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius) / fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / lack of sticking power / short attention span
有头无尾 yǒu tóu wú wěi to start but not finish (idiom) / to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span
为德不卒 wéi dé bù zú to start on virtue but give up (idiom) / to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span
为德不终 wéi dé bù zhōng to start on virtue but give up (idiom) / to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span
记忆广度 jì yì guǎng dù memory span
阅读广度 yuè dú guǎng dù reading span
阅读广度测验 yuè dú guǎng dù cè yàn reading span test
一暴十寒 yī pù shí hán one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius) / fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / short attention span
寿数已尽 shòu shù yǐ jǐn to die (when one's predestined life span is up)
年寿 nián shòu length of life / life span
寿考 shòu kǎo long life / life span
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