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Chinese dictionary
- 1
v.separate; divide; cut off; isolate
朝鲜和中国只隔一条鸭绿江。
Korea and China are separated by only the Yalu River.
她把一间大房子隔成几间办公室。
She divided a large house into several offices.
白令海峡把北美洲和亚洲隔开。
The Bering Strait divides North America from Asia.
- 2
v.be at a distance from; after or at an interval of
两座城市相隔两百英里。
The two cities are 200 miles apart.
两个事件前后仅隔十天。
The two incidents were only ten days apart.
这个车站每隔十分钟开出一列火车。
Trains leave this station on ten-minute headway.
- 3
adj.following; next-door
隔日
the following day
Words and phrases with 隔
- 隔音室[word]soundproof room
- 隔板[word]division
- 隔断[word]partition; cut off
- 隔日[word]every other day
- 隔三岔五[word]often
- 隔音[word]insulate against sound/noise
- 隔壁[word]next door
- 隔层[word]interlayer
- 隔水层[word]water-resisting layer
- 隔世之感[idiom]be confused and puzzled as if one has come from another life in the past
- 隔岸观火[idiom]stand by and watch
- 隔靴搔痒[idiom]scratch an itch from outside one's boot
- 隔年皇历[idiom]last year's calendar
- 隔三差五[idiom]every now and then
- 隔墙有耳[idiom]beware of eavesdroppers