被上诉人 | [ beì shàng sù rén ] appellee (side that won in trial court, whose victory is being appealed by losing side) |
被优化掉 | [ beì yoū huà ] lit. to be optimized away, to be fired, to be the victim of downsizing |
被剥削者 | [ beì bō xuē zhě ] person suffering exploitation, the workers in Marxist theory |
被动 | [ beì dòng ] passive |
被动免疫 | [ beì dòng miǎn yì ] passive immunity |
被动吸烟 | [ beì dòng xī yān ] second-hand smoking, passive smoking |
被和谐 | [ beì hé xié ] to be "harmonized" i.e. censored |
被单 | [ beì dān ] (bed) sheet, envelope for a padded coverlet, CL:床[chuang2] |
被执行人 | [ beì zhí xíng rén ] (law) person required to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement (e.g. to pay compensation to sb) |
被子植物门 | [ beì zǐ zhí wù mén ] angiospermae (phylum of flowering plants with seed contained in a fruit) |
被旅游 | [ beì lǚ yoú ] (coll.) (of a dissident) to be taken on a tour, ostensibly a vacation, but actually a trip organized by the authorities where one's every move is watched |
被窝 | [ beì wō ] quilt wrapped around the body as a tube (traditional bedding), (contemporary) bedding, quilt, blankets, cover, bed |
被窝儿 | [ beì wō ] erhua variant of 被窩|被窝[bei4 wo1] |
被绑 | [ beì bǎng ] kidnap victim, kidnapped (person) |
被卧 | [ beì wo ] quilt, cover |
被自杀 | [ beì zì shā ] a death claimed to be a suicide by the authorities |
被访者 | [ beì fǎng zhě ] respondent (in a survey, questionnaire, study etc) |
被译 | [ beì yì ] translated |
被选举权 | [ beì xuǎn jǔ quán ] the right to be elected, the right to stand for election |
被除数 | [ beì chú shù ] dividend |
⇒ 一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳 | [ yī nián beì shé yaǒ shí nián pà jǐng shéng ] bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy |
⇒ 一朝被蛇咬,十年怕井绳 | [ yī zhaō beì shé yaǒ shí nián pà jǐng shéng ] once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope, once bitten, twice shy (idiom) |
⇒ 垫被 | [ diàn beì ] mattress |
⇒ 失信被执行人 | [ shī xìn beì zhí xíng rén ] (law) judgement defaulter (person who has failed to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement, such as paying compensation to sb, despite having the means to do so), debt dodger |
⇒ 聪明反被聪明误 | [ cōng míng fǎn beì cōng míng wù ] a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself, too smart for one's own good |