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淘汰

táo tài

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

淘汰 (táo tài) means "to wash out". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 淘汰 means

1. to wash out
2. (fig.) to cull
3. to weed out
4. to eliminate
5. to die out
6. to phase out

The characters in 淘汰

• 淘táoto wash (rice, sand etc in water to remove impurities); to dredge…
• 汰tàito discard; to eliminate

Example sentences

• 德国被韩国淘汰。
  Déguó bèi Hánguó táotài.
  Germany was eliminated by South Korea.
• 在上一届世界杯上，新西兰在比赛中被墨西哥淘汰。
  Zài shàng yī jiè Shìjièbēi shàng, Xīnxīlán zài bǐsài zhōng bèi Mòxīgē táotài.
  In the last World Cup, New Zealand was knocked out of the competition by Mexico.
• 共产主义失败了，而无产阶级专政现在也经被淘汰了。虽然资本主义逐渐取而代之，但现在的资本主义对于人类还是一个威胁。
  Gòngchǎnzhǔyì shībài le, ér wúchǎnjiējí zhuānzhèng xiànzài yě jīng bèi táotài le. suīrán zīběnzhǔyì zhújiàn qǔ'érdàizhī, dàn xiànzài de zīběnzhǔyì duìyú rénlèi háishi yī gè wēixié.
  Since communism became obsolete and the dictatorship of the proletariat is out of date, capitalism proves to be the best so far, even though it itself is still a threat for humanity.
• 虽然公山羊羔经常因为无法产奶而被淘汰，但有时它们会被阉割，并作为「阉羊」留在羊群中。这种脖子上挂着铃铛的「领头羊」通常是羊群的领袖。
  Although the male goat kids are often culled because they will never produce milk, they are sometimes castrated instead and allowed to remain in the herd as a "wether". With a bell around its neck, such a "bellwether" is usually the leader for the rest of the herd.

Words starting with 淘汰

• 淘汰赛táo tài sàia knockout competition

Words containing 淘汰

• 末位淘汰mò wèi táo tàisacking the worst-performing employee; elimination of the worst-performing contestant

Where 淘汰 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · táo–tí (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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