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探险家

tànxiǎnjiā

explorer

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

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explorer

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 探险家 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 探险家 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

探险家们在洞穴里发现了骸骨。tàn xiǎn jiā men zài dòng xué lǐ fā xiàn le hái gǔ。

The explorers discovered a skeleton in the cave.

古代的探险家用星星来辨别方向。gǔ dài de tàn xiǎn jiā yòng xīng xīng lái biàn bié fāng xiàng。

Early explorers used the stars for navigation.

哥伦布是一位探险家,不是因为他热爱大海。他是一位探险家,因为他讨厌西班牙监狱。gē lún bù shì yī wèi tàn xiǎn jiā, bú shì yīn wèi tā rè ài dà hǎi。 tā shì yī wèi tàn xiǎn jiā, yīn wèi tā tǎo yàn xī bān yá jiān yù。

Christopher Columbus wasn't an explorer because he loved the sea. He was an explorer because he hated Spanish jails.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 探险家.

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

Directly before

  • 一位探险家2
  • 的探险家1
  • 成为探险家1

Directly after

  • 探险家用1
  • 探险家们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 探险家

What does 探险家 mean in Chinese?

探险家 (tànxiǎnjiā) means explorer.

How do you pronounce 探险家?

探险家 is pronounced tànxiǎnjiā.

Is 探险家 an HSK word?

探险家 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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