No published English translation for this sentence.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
原地踏步
to mark time (military)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to mark time (military)
02
to make no headway
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 原地踏步 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 原地踏步 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 原地踏步.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 原地踏步.
Directly before
- 只能原地踏步1
- 在原地踏步1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 原地踏步
What does 原地踏步 mean in Chinese?
原地踏步 (yuándìtàbù) means to mark time (military).
How do you pronounce 原地踏步?
原地踏步 is pronounced yuándìtàbù.
Is 原地踏步 an HSK word?
原地踏步 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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