12th lunar month/preserved (meat, fish etc)/year end sacrifice
臘 [腊]
Jyutping
laap6
Pinyin
là
Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month
the 12th lunar month
(bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month
Definitions (CC-CANTO)
12th lunar month/preserved (meat, fish etc)/year end sacrifice
Definitions (粵典–words.hk)
語素、術語
一種傳統保存肉類嘅方法:選好用料之後用適當刀功切好,然後用鹽、糖等配料醃製,最後掛起生曬或者風乾。整好咗嘅臘味表面會因為乾燥過程滲出油份而形成好似蠟噉嘅半透明質地。通常會喺農曆臘月(十二月)去整。 traditional Chinese way of drying and preserving meat by select appropriate meat and cut in a special way, seasoning with salt, sugar and other ingredient. Then, hang them up and drying by wind or sunlight. The end-product having wax-liked semi-translucency looking and texture. Usually practised in the twelfth month of the lunar calendar.
臘腸
腊肠
Chinese dried preserved sausage
臘鴨
腊鸭
Chinese dried preserved duck
參看
腊
Definitions (Wiktionary)
character
year-end sacrifice to the gods
character
twelfth month of the Chinese lunar calendar
character
dried preserved meat; cured meat
燒臘
烧腊
shāo là preserved or roasted meat
臘鴨
腊鸭
là yā dried preserved duck
Definitions (Unihan)
year-end sacrifice
dried meat
Cangjie Input - Simplified
BTA
Cangjie Input - Traditional
BVVV
Definitions (HSK3.0)
HSK3 七一九级汉字表 #490
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
Mandarin
我爸爸已经去过希腊了。
我爸爸已經去過希臘了。
wǒ bà ba yǐ jīng qù guò xī là le 。
My father had once been in Greece.
My father had gone to Greece.
Mandarin
希腊人以前是信奉多神的民族。
希臘人以前是信奉多神的民族。
xī là rén yǐ qián shì xìn fèng duō shén de mín zú 。
The Greeks used to worship several gods.
Mandarin
这个字是希腊语衍生出来的。
這個字是希臘語衍生出來的。
zhè ge zì shì xī là yǔ yǎn shēng chū lái de 。
This word is derived from Greek.
Mandarin
奥林匹斯山? 那不是希腊众神鬼混的地方?
奧林匹斯山? 那不是希臘眾神鬼混的地方?
ào lín pǐ sī shān ? nà bú shi xī là zhòng shén guǐ hùn de dì fāng ?
Olympus? Isn't that where Greek gods hang out or something?
Mandarin
他把荷马的史记从希腊语翻译成了英语。
他把荷馬的史記從希臘語翻譯成了英語。
tā bǎ hé mǎ de shǐ jì cóng xī là yǔ fān yì chéng le yīng yǔ 。
After months of negotiation, European Union finally agrees to rescue Greece from an economic crisis.
Examples (Wiktionary)
Cantonese
一孖腊肠
一孖臘腸
jat1 maa1 laap6 coeng2
a pair of Chinese sausages
Mandarin
烧腊
燒臘
shāo là
preserved or roasted meat
Mandarin
腊鸭
臘鴨
là yā
dried preserved duck
Cantonese
开间烧腊舖
開間燒臘舖
hoi1 gaan1 siu1 laap6 pou2
to open a roasted meats shop
Mandarin
在中国男篮败在希腊队脚下后,姚明并没有发火,而是中肯地提出了自己的意见,他说:“闭门造车打国内的联赛永远都是这样,必须让他们出去打比赛,不是一个一个队的出去,而是一个一个队员的出去,杀入外面每一个队。这样,我们的篮球整体水准才有可能提升。”
在中國男籃敗在希臘隊腳下後,姚明並沒有發火,而是中肯地提出了自己的意見,他説:“閉門造車打國內的聯賽永遠都是這樣,必須讓他們出去打比賽,不是一個一個隊的出去,而是一個一個隊員的出去,殺入外面每一個隊。這樣,我們的籃球整體水準才有可能提升。”
zài zhōng guó nán lán bài zài xī là duì jiǎo xià hòu , yáo míng bìng méi yǒu fā huǒ , ér shì zhōng kěn dì tí chū le zì jǐ de yì jiàn , tā shuō : “ bì mén zào chē dǎ guó nèi de lián sài yǒng yuǎn dōu shì zhè yàng , bì xū ràng tā men chū qù dǎ bǐ sài , bù shì yī ge yī ge duì de chū qù , ér shì yī ge yī ge duì yuán de chū qù , shā rù wài miàn měi yī ge duì . zhè yàng , wǒ men de lán qiú zhěng tǐ shuǐ zhǔn cái yǒu kě néng tí shēng . ”
After the men's basketball team for China lost at the hands of Greece, Yao Ming did not become angry. Instead, he offered his own opinion, which cut right to the heart of the matter, "It will always be like this if we operate in a vacuum, and are forever only playing local league games in our own country. We need to let them go abroad to compete. It's not about individual teams going abroad. Rather, it's about individual team members going abroad and fighting their way onto the teams of other countries. That's the only way we'll be able raise the level of our basketball as a whole.