Chinese English Dictionary Online

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  • weir
Trad. 圍堰
  • a cofferdam
  • irrigation pond or dam
  • see 十堰市[Shi2 yan4 Shi4]
  • see 姜堰區|姜堰区[Jiang1 yan4 Qu1]
  • Shiyan, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3]
Trad. 姜堰區
  • Jiangyan, a district of Taizhou City 泰州市[Tai4 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu
  • Dujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site
  • see 都江堰市[Du1 jiang1 yan4 Shi4]
  • Dujiangyan, a county-level city in Chengdu City 成都市[Cheng2 du1 Shi4], Sichuan
Trad. 兵來將敵,水來土堰
  • counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
  • to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation

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