For computer people, days are like years without the internet.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
度日如年
a day drags past like a year (idiom); time hangs heavy
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
a day drags past like a year (idiom); time hangs heavy
02
time crawls when one is wretched
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 度日如年 actually appears in real sentences.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 度日如年.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 度日如年.
Directly before
- 时候度日如年1
- 我度日如年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 度日如年
What does 度日如年 mean in Chinese?
度日如年 (dùrìrúnián) means a day drags past like a year (idiom); time hangs heavy.
How do you pronounce 度日如年?
度日如年 is pronounced dùrìrúnián.
Is 度日如年 an HSK word?
度日如年 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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