He always sits up late at night.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
开夜车
to burn the midnight oil
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to burn the midnight oil
02
to work late into the night
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 开夜车 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 开夜车 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 开夜车.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 开夜车.
Directly before
- 是开夜车1
- 不开夜车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 开夜车
What does 开夜车 mean in Chinese?
开夜车 (kāiyèchē) means to burn the midnight oil.
How do you pronounce 开夜车?
开夜车 is pronounced kāiyèchē.
Is 开夜车 an HSK word?
开夜车 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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