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遍地

biàn dì

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

遍地 (biàn dì) means "everywhere; all over". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 遍地 means

1. everywhere
2. all over

The characters in 遍地

• 遍biàneverywhere; all over; classifier for actions: one time
• 地dìearth; ground; field

Example sentences

• 老师肯定厌倦了一遍又一遍地纠正学生试卷中同样的错误。
  Lǎoshī kěndìng yànjuàn le yībiànyòuyībiàn de jiūzhèng xuésheng shìjuàn zhōng tóngyàng de cuòwù.
  Teachers must get tired of rectifying the same mistakes over and over again in their students' papers.
• 于是彼拉多把耶稣带去鞭打。兵丁用荆棘编作冠冕，戴在他头上，又给他穿上紫袍。他们上前一遍遍地打他，说道：「万岁，犹太人的王！」又打他的脸。
  Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe. And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.
• 我在黑暗的巷子中绊倒，膝盖砸在柏油路上。一块木板盖着巷弄的房屋之间的电线。深夜的巷弄非常之暗。我的眼镜从眼睛上掉了下来。幸好有一位带着手电筒的广东工人帮忙。我的膝盖只是擦破了皮。我想起另一次膝盖摔伤是在菲律宾奎松市的唐荷西高地。那里有一大片火星般的红土地，遍地长满了「塔拉希布」草。有时工人会故意纵火烧草。我和哥哥当时还在外面玩。那时我们还未到青春期。在燃烧的野草旁，我摔倒了，膝盖着地。我的贝贝姥姥愤怒不已。家里的女佣在车库后面的大磁砖水槽里帮我清洗了双腿。
  I tripped in the alleyway in the darkness, as I crashed my knees on the asphalt. There was a wooden board that covered a wire between houses across the alleyway. It was very dark there at night. My eyeglasses fell off my face. Luckily, a Cantonese labourer with a flashlight helped me. My knees just got scraped. I remember another time when I crashed on my knees. It was at Don José Heights in Quezon City in the Philippines. There was a vastness of Martianesque red soil, wherein the "talahib" grass grew. Sometimes, workers intentionally set the grass on fire. My brother and I were still playing, even then, outside. We were still prepubescent. Near burning grass, I stumbled on my knees. My grandmother, Lola Bebe, was so angry. A maid washed my legs in the big tiled sink behind the garage.

Words starting with 遍地

• 遍地开花biàn dì kāi huā(idiom) to blossom everywhere; to spring up all over the place…

Words containing 遍地

• 漫天遍地màn tiān biàn dìlit. to fill the whole sky and cover the land (idiom); fig. everywhere…
• 烽烟遍地fēng yān biàn dìfire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war

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