北島 [－岛]

Jyutping bak1 dou2
Pinyin běi dǎo

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. Bei Dao (1949-), Chinese poet
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. name
    North Island (one of the two major islands of New Zealand)
  2. name
    An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 北島, Kitajima
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    有人认为北岛在这本书中没有表现出思想之美，但那是评论家的事，对于我等普通读者来说，这样的文字，已经足以三月不知肉味了。
    有人認為北島在這本書中沒有表現出思想之美，但那是評論家的事，對於我等普通讀者來説，這樣的文字，已經足以三月不知肉味了。
    yǒu rén rèn wéi běi dǎo zài zhè běn shū zhōng méi yǒu biǎo xiàn chū sī xiǎng zhī měi ， dàn nà shì píng lùn jiā de shì ， duì yú wǒ děng pǔ tōng dú zhě lái shuō ， zhè yàng de wén zì ， yǐ jīng zú yǐ sān yuè bù zhī ròu wèi le ．
    • There are some who believe that Bei Dao has not demonstrated a clarity of thought in this book; I will leave that to the reviewers and critics. However, for ordinary readers like me, this kind of writing was sufficient to keep me totally enraptured.