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草

cǎo / cǎo / cào
HSK 2

English Meaning

(cǎo) variant of 草 | (cǎo) grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough | (cào) variant of 肏

Authentic Cinema Dialogue 3 CURATED EVIDENCE CLIPS
这里还是寸草不生的
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💡 INTENT:

“Look how dead the ground is; the crash must have been devastating.”

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一年多的时间过去了

“More than a year has passed.”

“and still, not a blade of grass grows here.”

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可见飞机坠落在这里的时候

“It shows that when the plane crashed here...”

《长河落日》 · daily_life
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这寸草不生的苦寒地
HSK 2 00:02
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💡 INTENT:

“You have nowhere to run out here, which makes you entirely at my mercy.”

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你放过我好不好

“Please let me go.”

“In this barren, freezing land,”

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你长得真水灵啊

“you're so delicate and pretty.”

《江湖夜雨十年灯》 · crisis_and_conflict
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我们呢 就在一个草堆啊 找到了他
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他不在家

“but he wasn't home.”

“We eventually found him in a haystack.”

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他的手已经被砍伤了

“His hand had already been cut.”

《你好1983》 · legal_and_police
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