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寒冬

hán dōng

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

寒冬 (hán dōng) means "cold winter". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 寒冬 means

1. cold winter

The characters in 寒冬

• 寒háncold; poor; to tremble
• 冬dōngwinter

Example sentences

• 寒冬来临。
  Hándōng láilín.
  Cold winter came on.
• 21个月前在寒冬所开始的一切不应当在今天这个秋夜结束。今天的选举胜利并不是我们所寻求的改变--这只是我们进行改变的机会。如果我们仍然按照过去的方式行事，我们所寻求的改变将不会发生。没有你们，没有服务和牺牲的新精神，就不可能发生改变。因此，让我们发扬新的爱国和负责精神，所有的人都下定决心参与其中，更加努力地工作，不仅是为自己而是为彼此。
  21 gè yuè qián zài hándōng suǒ kāishǐ de yīqiè bù yīngdāng zài jīntiān zhège qiū yè jiéshù. jīntiān de xuǎnjǔ shènglì bìngbù shì wǒmen suǒ xúnqiú de gǎibiàn -- zhè zhǐshì wǒmen jìnxíng gǎibiàn de jīhuì. rúguǒ wǒmen réngrán ànzhào guòqù de fāngshì xíngshì, wǒmen suǒ xúnqiú de gǎibiàn jiāng bù huì fāshēng. méiyǒu nǐmen, méiyǒu fúwù hé xīshēng de xīn jīngshén, jiù bù kěnéng fāshēng gǎibiàn. yīncǐ, ràng wǒmen fāyáng xīn de àiguó hé fùzé jīngshén, suǒyǒu de rén dōu xiàdìngjuéxīn cānyù qízhōng, gèng jiā nǔlì de gōngzuò, bù jǐn shì wèi zìjǐ érshì wèi bǐcǐ.
  What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice. So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.

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