CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

世代相传

shìdàixiāngchuán

passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 世代相传 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 世代相传 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

一只赛勒诺栖於岩石之上，你看，/ 那阴郁的女先知就这样嘎声道出她的末日预言。/「还有战争，拉俄墨冬两度背信的后裔！/ 你们带来的是战争，还偷杀了我们的牛群？/ 而你们还要将无辜的哈尔庇厄驱逐，/ 赶出她们古老、世代相传的领地？」yī zhī sài lēi nuò qī yú yán shí zhī shàng， nǐ kàn，/ nà yīn yù de nǚ xiān zhī jiù zhè yàng gā shēng dào chū tā de mò rì yù yán。/「hái yǒu zhàn zhēng， lā é mò dōng liǎng dù bèi xìn de hòu yì！/ nǐ men dài lái de shì zhàn zhēng， hái tōu shā le wǒ men de niú qún？/ ér nǐ men hái yào jiāng wú gū de hā ěr bì è qū zhú，/ gǎn chū tā men gǔ lǎo、 shì dài xiāng chuán de lǐng dì？」

One perched, Celaeno, on a rock, and lo, / thus croaked the dismal seer her prophecy of woe. / "War, too, Laomedon's twice-perjured race! / War do ye bring, our cattle stol'n and slain? / And unoffending Harpies would ye chase / forth from their old, hereditary reign?"

文化世代相传。wén huà shì dài xiāng chuán。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 世代相传.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 世代相传.

Directly before

文化世代相传1

Directly after

世代相传的1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 世代相传

What does 世代相传 mean in Chinese?

世代相传 (shìdàixiāngchuán) means passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down.

How do you pronounce 世代相传?

世代相传 is pronounced shìdàixiāngchuán.

Is 世代相传 an HSK word?

世代相传 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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