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拖堂

tuōtáng

to drag out a lesson

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to drag out a lesson

02

to insist on extending class after the bell

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 拖堂 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 拖堂 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

拖堂情况对于学生们而言十分常见。tuō táng qíng kuàng duì yú xué shēng men ér yán shí fēn cháng jiàn。

Having their classroom time extended is a very common occurrence for students.

这个老师总是拖堂,占用同学们课间休息的时间,后来他被举报了,真过瘾啊。zhè ge lǎo shī zǒng shì tuō táng, zhàn yòng tóng xué men kè jiān xiū xī de shí jiān, hòu lái tā bèi jǔ bào le, zhēn guò yǐn a。

This teacher always drags his class time, taking up the students' rest time, later he got reported, it felt amazing.

拖堂是种常见现象。tuō táng shì zhǒng cháng jiàn xiàn xiàng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 拖堂.

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

Directly before

  • 总是拖堂1

Directly after

  • 拖堂情况1
  • 拖堂是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 拖堂

What does 拖堂 mean in Chinese?

拖堂 (tuōtáng) means to drag out a lesson.

How do you pronounce 拖堂?

拖堂 is pronounced tuōtáng.

Is 拖堂 an HSK word?

拖堂 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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