税收起征点 tax threshold 数码相机 digital camera 硕博联读 a continuous academic project that involves postgraduate and doctoral study 说曹操,曹操到 Talk of the devil and he comes. 说服教育 persuasion education 说明会 explanation session 说起来容易做起来难 Easier said than done. 四大金刚 Four Heavenly Guardians at the entrance to a Buddhism temple; Four Devarajas 死而后已 until my heart stops beating 司法解释 judicial interpretation 四个如何认识 (江泽民总书记在今年6月28日中央思想政治工作会议上发表的重要讲话中,提出并精辟阐述了如何认识社会主义发展的历史进程、如何认识资本主义发展的历史进程、如何认识我国社会主义改革实践过程对人们思想的影响、如何认识当今的国际环境和国际政治斗争带来的影响等当前直接影响干部群众思想活动的重大问题.) "In his important address to the Central Ideological and Political Work Conference on June 28 this year, Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin expounds on how to understand the historical process of socialist development; how to understand the historical process of capitalist development; how to understand the impact of China's socialist reform over the people's thinking; how to understand the impact of the current international environment and political struggle." 四个现代化 four modernizations (the modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology) 四合院 courtyard dwellilngs; quadrangle dwellings 死机 system halted 四连冠 four straight (consecutive) championships, (four championships on the run) 私人轿车牌照 individual car plate 私人企业 private enterprise 私人游资 mobile private capital 四十不惑 Life begins at forty. 四书(《大学》、《中庸》、《论语》、《孟子》) The Four Books (The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius, The Mencius) 私塾 private school 死亡率 mortality 死亡人数 death toll 思想包袱 mental load 思想道德教育 ideological and moral education
三民主义 the Three People's Principles (Nationalism, Democracy and the People's Livelihood) put forward by Dr. Sun Yat-sen 三农问题 issues concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers 三陪 girls who provides illegal sexual services, esp. prostitute 三权分立 separation of the executive, legislative and judicial powers 三十而立 "A man should be independent at the age of thirty. / At thirty, a man should be able to think for himself." 三通 "three direct links of trade, mail, and air and shipping services across the Taiwan Straits " 三通一平 "three supplies and one leveling; supply of water, electricity and road and leveled ground (conditions ready for further economic development)" 三维电影 three-dimensional movie 三维动画片 three-dimensional animation 三无企业 "three-no-enterprises (It refers to enterprises with no capital, no plant, and no administrative structure.)" 三峡工程 Three Gorges Project 三峡水利枢纽二期工程 the second phase of the key water control project at the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River 三下乡 "a program under which officials, doctors, scientist and college students go to the countryside to spread scientific and literacy knowledge and offer medical service to farmers" “三沿”开放(沿海、沿边、沿江) "Sea-shore, River-shore, Border-shore" opening-up 散装 load in bulk 三字经 three-character scripture 三资企业(中外合资企业,中外合作企业,外商独资企业) "three kinds of foreign-invested enterprises or ventures: Sino-foreign joint ventures, cooperative businesses and exclusively foreign-owned enterprises in China " 三自原则 principles of self-administration, self-support and self-propagation 桑拿浴 sauna 三无人员 (无合法证件,无正常居所,无正当生活来源) people without identification papers, a normal residence permit, and a source of income; “sanwu” people 扫黄,打非 eliminate pornography and illegal publications 扫盲 eliminate illiteracy 扫尾工作 round-off work; wind-up work 森林覆盖率 forest coverage; percentage of forest cover 沙尘暴 sand storm; dust storm |