The picnic was called off because of the rain.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
泡汤
(coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing
02
to dawdle; to stall
03
(Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring bath
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 泡汤 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 泡汤 appears in 3 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 泡汤.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 泡汤.
Directly before
- 野餐泡汤1
- 要泡汤1
- 全泡汤1
Directly after
- 泡汤了3
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 泡汤
What does 泡汤 mean in Chinese?
泡汤 (pàotāng) means (coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing.
How do you pronounce 泡汤?
泡汤 is pronounced pàotāng.
Is 泡汤 an HSK word?
泡汤 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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