"Years" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 suì yuè years / time
 nián huá years / time / age
 qīng nián youth / youthful years / young person / the young
 duō nián many years / for many years / longstanding
 dāng nián in those days / then / in those years / during that time
 sān nián three years
 jìn nián lái for the past few years
 jǐ nián a few years / several years / how many years
 bǎi nián hundred years / century / lifetime
 sì nián four years
 duō nián lái for the past many years
 jìn jǐ nián in recent years
 cháng nián all year round / for years on end / average year
 nián jiān in the years of / during those years / period (of dynasty or decade)
 jǐ shí nián several tens of years / several decades
 lǎo nián elderly / old age / autumn of one's years
 nián xiàn age limit / fixed number of years
 nián lái this past year / over the last years
 guǎn zhì to control / to restrict / (PRC law) non-custodial sentence with specified restrictions on one's activities for up to 3 years (e.g. not to participate in demonstrations)
 yī shì generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings)
 lì nián over the years / bygone years
 shù nián several years / many years
 zhú nián year after year / with each passing year / over the years
 wǎng nián in former years / in previous years
 zǎo nián early years / adolescence
 wǎn nián one's later years
 shí wǔ nián fifteen years
 qiān qiū a thousand years / your birthday (honorific)
 qián xiē a few (days, years etc) ago
 lián nián successive years / over many years
 suì shu age (number of years old)
 chán lián to continue in a post / (to hold a post) several times in succession / (to win a title) in successive years / to stay at number one / to defend a championship
 mò nián the final years (of a regime)
 Qīng mò the final years of the Qing dynasty 清朝[Qing1 chao2] / late Qing
 zuì jìn jǐ nián the last few years / last several years / recent years
 chén nián old / stored for many years
 sì nián qián four years previously
 nián suì years of age / age
 yú shēng the remaining years of one's life / survival (after a disaster)
 shí yī nián eleven years
 shí jiǔ suì 19 years old
 chū nián early years
 Zhū luó jì Jurassic (geological period 205-140m years ago)
 fāng huá young years / youth
 xī nián former years / previous years
 zhuàng nián lit. robust years / prime of life / summer / able-bodied (fit for military service) / mature (talent, garden etc)
 jīng nián for years / year after year
 quán guó dài biǎo dà huì national general congress / Communist party national congress, in recent times every five years
 wǎng jiè former sessions / former years
 yīng nián the prime of one's life / youthful years
 nián shì years of age / age
 bā xún eighty years
 zhōng lǎo to spend one's last years
 sǐ huǎn deferred death sentence / commuted death sentence with forced labor and judicial review after two years (PRC) (legal)
 bù huò without doubt / with full self-confidence / forty years of age
 shǔ xiàng colloquial term for 生肖[sheng1 xiao4] the animals associated with the years of a 12-year cycle
 jì nián to number the years / calendar era / annals / chronicle
 gǔ xī seventy years old
 yǒu nián for years
 gù zhī a close friend over many years
 dòu kòu cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) / fig. a girl's teenage years / maidenhood / a budding beauty
 èr shí liù suì 26 years old
 cháng nián lěi yuè year in, year out (idiom) / (over) many years
 chāo líng too old / overage / (of a young person's behavior or attributes) beyond one's years / adultlike
 mù nián one's declining years / old age
 bǎi nián bù yù only met with once every hundred years (drought, flood etc)
 lǎo dāng yì zhuàng old but vigorous (idiom) / hale and hearty despite the years
 jiào líng years of teaching experience / teaching experience
 sān shí ér lì thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)
 hòu shēng kě wèi the young will be redoubtable in the years to come (idiom) / the younger generations will surpass us in time
 Zhōng shēng dài Mesozoic (geological era 250-65m years ago, covering Triassic 三疊紀|三叠纪, Jurassic 侏羅紀|侏罗纪 / and Cretaceous 白堊紀|白垩纪)
 quán guó yùn dòng huì National Games, Chinese athletics competition, organized every four years since 1959
 Bái è jì Cretaceous (geological period 140-65m years ago)
 jīng nián lěi yuè for years / over the years
 wǎn jǐng evening scene / circumstances of one's declining years
 xū suì one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) &ndash / In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]
 mò yè final years / end (of a decade, era etc)
 chū yè early part (of a decade, century etc) / the first years
 Nóng yùn huì China National Farmers' Games (sports meeting for peasants held every 4 years since 1988)
 jī nián for a long time / over many years / old / advanced in age
 jǐ nián lái for the past several years
 Gǔ shēng dài Paleozoic, geological era 545-250m years ago, covering Cambrian 寒武紀|寒武纪, Ordovician 奧陶紀|奥陶纪, Silurian 志留紀|志留纪, Devonian 泥盆紀|泥盆纪, Carboniferous 石炭紀|石炭纪, Permian 二疊紀|二叠纪
 Sān dié jì Triassic (geological period 250-205m years ago)
 suì classifier for years (of age) / year / year (of crop harvests)
 jiè to arrive at (place or time) / period / to become due / classifier for events, meetings, elections, sporting fixtures, years (of graduation)
 zhì order / orderliness / (classifier) ten years
 xún ten days / ten years / full period
 zhì variant of 帙[zhi4] / variant of 秩[zhi4] / (classifier) ten years
 jī 15 years old / hairpin for bun
 bù cycle of 76 years / shade
 dòu kòu nián huá a girl's teenage years (idiom) / maidenhood / a budding beauty
 yī nián bèi shé yǎo shí nián pà jǐng shéng bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom) / once bitten twice shy
 nián yú gǔ xī over seventy years old
 rì yuè cuō tuó the years have slipped by
 suì yuè rú liú the passage of the years / the flow of time
 suì yuè zhēng róng eventful years / momentous times
 bǎi nián shù rén It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom) / fig. a good education program takes a long time to develop / cf. 十年樹木,百年樹人|十年树木,百年树人
 zhōng míng lòu jìn past one's prime / in one's declining years
 cháng yè nán míng lit. many nights under a harsh moon / long years of oppression (idiom)
 gé nián huáng lì lit. almanac from years back (idiom) / obsolete practice / old-fashioned principle
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