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柴门

chái mén

2-character word Traditional 柴門

What 柴门 means

1. lit. woodcutter's family
2. humble background
3. poor family background

The characters in 柴门

• 柴cháifirewood; lean (of meat); thin (of a person)
• 门méngate; door; doorway; gateway; opening; valve; switch…

Example sentences

• 柴门霍夫是世界语的创造者。
  Cháiménhuòfū shì Shìjièyǔ de chuàngzàozhě.
  Zamenhof is the creator of Esperanto.
• 世界语的创始人柴门霍夫是一个眼科医生。
  Shìjièyǔ de chuàngshǐrén Cháiménhuòfū shì yī gè yǎnkē yīshēng.
  Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, was an ophthalmologist.
• 我们能否指出一种语言诞生的确切日期？你或许会这样说：「真是个奇怪的问题！」然而，这样的日期确实存在：7 月 26 日，世界语日。1887 年的这一天，路德维克莱泽柴门霍夫在华沙出版了一本关于「国际语言」的小册子。
  Is it possible to indicate a date on which a language came into life? "What a question!" you will be inclined to say. And yet such a date exists: the 26th of July, the Day of Esperanto. On this day in 1887 appeared in Warsaw a booklet by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof about the "International Language".
• 我想说的是，柴门霍夫不仅构建了一个语言学对象，而且在这之后还有一个理念——一个兄弟情谊的理念，一个和平主义的理念。这种理想的力量——世界语者甚至因此而受到纳粹主义和斯大林主义的迫害——至今仍为世界语者社区所保留。没有人能说这是失败的，但有一件事需要说明：任何语言之所以成功的原因总是难以定义的。
  What I’m getting at is that Zamenhof not only built a linguistic object, but that behind that was an idea — an idea of brotherhood, a pacifist idea. That strength of an ideal — for which Esperantists were even persecuted under Nazism and Stalinism — is still conserved by the community of Esperantists. One cannot say that it has failed, but one thing needs to be said: the reason why any language is successful is always indefinable.

Words starting with 柴门

• 柴门小户chái mén xiǎo hùwoodcutter's cottage (idiom); poor person's hovel; fig. my humble house