CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

老少

lǎoshào

the old and the young

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

the old and the young

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 老少 actually appears in real sentences.

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这是个由不分老少、贫富、民主党、共和党；黑人、白人、拉丁裔、亚裔、美洲原住民；同性恋、异性恋人；肢障与四体健全者，大家共同诉说的答案。美国民众向全世界发出讯息，我们绝非一盘散沙，也不是由红州、蓝州拼凑而成的集合体。zhè shì gè yóu bù fēn lǎo shào、 pín fù、 mín zhǔ dǎng、 gòng hé dǎng； hēi rén、 bái rén、 lā dīng yì、 yà yì、 měi zhōu yuán zhù mín； tóng xìng liàn、 yì xìng liàn rén； zhī zhàng yǔ sì tǐ jiàn quán zhě， dà jiā gòng tóng sù shuō de dá àn。 měi guó mín zhòng xiàng quán shì jiè fā chū xùn xī， wǒ men jué fēi yī pán sǎn shā， yě bú shì yóu hóng zhōu、 lán zhōu pīn còu ér chéng de jí hé tǐ。

It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and always will be, the United States of America.

且凡老少房中所有亲侍的女孩子们，更比待家下众人不同，平常寒薄人家的小姐也不能那样尊重的。因此他母子两个也就死心不赎了。qiě fán lǎo shào fáng zhōng suǒ yǒu qīn shì de nǚ hái zi men， gèng bǐ dài jiā xià zhòng rén bù tóng， píng cháng hán báo rén jiā de xiǎo jiě yě bù néng nà yàng zūn zhòng de。 yīn cǐ tā mǔ zi liǎng gè yě jiù sǐ xīn bù shú le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 老少.

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

Directly before

不分老少1
凡老少1

Directly after

老少房中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 老少

What does 老少 mean in Chinese?

老少 (lǎoshào) means the old and the young.

How do you pronounce 老少?

老少 is pronounced lǎoshào.

Is 老少 an HSK word?

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

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