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以此类推

yǐ cǐ lèi tuī

4-character word Traditional 以此類推

What 以此类推 means

1. and so on
2. in a similar fashion

The characters in 以此类推

• 以yǐto use; by means of; according to
• 此cǐthis; these
• 类lèikind; type; class; category; (classifier) kind; type; (bound form) to resemble…
• 推tuīto push; to cut; to refuse

Example sentences

• 如果我们在棋盘的第一个格子里放一粒麦子，在第二个格子里放两粒麦子，在第三个格子里放四粒麦子，以此类推，直到最后一个格子，那么总共会有 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 粒麦子，足以堆成喜马拉雅山的 100 倍高。
  If we were to put a grain of wheat on the first box of a chessboard, two grains on the second one, four on the third one and so on, until the last one, there would be 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains, enough to make a mountain 100 times taller than the Himalayas.