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采
採
cai3
 
- to pick; to pluck; to collect; to select; to choose; to gather
 
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剥采比
剝採比
bo1 cai3 bi3
 
- stripping-to-ore ratio; stripping ratio
 
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采办
採辦
cai3 ban4
 
- to buy on a considerable scale; to purchase; to procure; to stock up
 
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采场
採場
cai3 chang3
 
- slope
 
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采出
採出
cai3 chu1
 
- to extract; to mine
 
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采伐
採伐
cai3 fa2
 
- to fell; to cut
 
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采访
採訪
cai3 fang3
 
- to interview; to gather news; to hunt for and collect; to cover
 
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采访记者
採訪記者
cai3 fang3 ji4 zhe3
 
- investigative reporter
 
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采风
採風
cai3 feng1
 
- to collect local cultural material (recording folk songs, taking photos etc)
 
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采购
採購
cai3 gou4
 
- to procure (for an enterprise etc); to purchase
 
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采购商
採購商
cai3 gou4 shang1
 
- buyer
 
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采购员
採購員
cai3 gou4 yuan2
 
- buyer; purchasing agent
 
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采光
採光
cai3 guang1
 
- lighting; day lighting
 
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采果
採果
cai3 guo3
 
- fruit picking
 
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采花
採花
cai3 hua1
 
- to pick flowers; to enter houses at night in order to rape women
 
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采花大盗
採花大盜
cai3 hua1 da4 dao4
 
- lit. flower thief; fig. rapist
 
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采花贼
採花賊
cai3 hua1 zei2
 
- lit. flower thief; fig. rapist
 
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采集
採集
cai3 ji2
 
- to gather; to collect; to harvest
 
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采景
採景
cai3 jing3
 
- to choose a location; to frame a shot (for filming, photography etc)
 
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采掘
採掘
cai3 jue2
 
- to excavate; to extract (ore)
 
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采矿
採礦
cai3 kuang4
 
- mining
 
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采矿业
採礦業
cai3 kuang4 ye4
 
- mining
 
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采兰赠芍
採蘭贈芍
cai3 lan2 zeng4 shao2
 
- lit. pick orchids and present peonies (idiom); fig. presents between lovers
 
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采录
採錄
cai3 lu4
 
- collect and record
 
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采买
採買
cai3 mai3
 
- purchase; buy
 
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采煤
採煤
cai3 mei2
 
- coal mining; coal extraction; coal cutting
 
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采棉机
採棉機
cai3 mian2 ji1
 
- cotton picker
 
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采纳
採納
cai3 na4
 
- to accept; to adopt
 
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采暖
採暖
cai3 nuan3
 
- heating
 
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采取
採取
cai3 qu3
 
- to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action); to take
 
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采取措施
採取措施
cai3 qu3 cuo4 shi1
 
- to adopt measures; to take steps
 
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采取行动
採取行動
cai3 qu3 xing2 dong4
 
- to take action; to adopt policies; to move on some issue
 
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采砂场
採砂場
cai3 sha1 chang3
 
- sandpit; sand quarry
 
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采食
採食
cai3 shi2
 
- to forage; to gather for eating; to pick and eat
 
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采石场
採石場
cai3 shi2 chang3
 
- stone pit; quarry
 
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采收率
採收率
cai3 shou1 lv4
 
- recovery ratio
 
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采样
採樣
cai3 yang4
 
- sampling
 
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采样率
採樣率
cai3 yang4 lv4
 
- sampling rate
 
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采邑
採邑
cai3 yi4
 
- fief; benefice
 
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采用
採用
cai3 yong4
 
- to adopt; to employ; to use
 
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采油
採油
cai3 you2
 
- oil extraction; oil recovery
 
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采择
採擇
cai3 ze2
 
- to choose and use; to adopt (a decision)
 
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采摘
採摘
cai3 zhai1
 
- to pluck; to pick
 
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采证
採證
cai3 zheng4
 
- to collect evidence
 
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采脂
採脂
cai3 zhi1
 
- tree tapping
 
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采制
採制
cai3 zhi4
 
- collect and process
 
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采种
採種
cai3 zhong3
 
- seed collecting
 
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采珠
採珠
cai3 zhu1
 
- to dive for pearls
 
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采珠人
採珠人
cai3 zhu1 ren2
 
- The Pearl Fishers, 1863 opera by Georges Bizet 比才
 
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盗采
盜採
dao4 cai3
 
- to mine (or harvest, log, trap animals etc) illegally; illegal mining (or logging etc)
 
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回采
回採
hui2 cai3
 
- stoping (excavating ore using stepped terraces); to extract ore; extraction; to pull back
 
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开采
開採
kai1 cai3
 
- to extract (ore or other resource from a mine); to exploit; to mine
 
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可采
可採
ke3 cai3
 
- (mining) recoverable; workable
 
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可采性
可採性
ke3 cai3 xing4
 
- (mining) workability (of deposits of coal, ore etc)
 
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尼采
尼採
ni2 cai3
 
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1846-1900), German philosopher
 
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现场采访
現場採訪
xian4 chang3 cai3 fang3
 
- on-the-spot interview
 
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应采儿
應採兒
ying1 cai3 er2
 
- Cherrie Ying Choi-Yi (1983-), actress