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Trad. 彈
- to pluck (a string)
- to play (a string instrument)
- to spring or leap
- to shoot (e.g. with a catapult)
- (of cotton) to fluff or tease
- to flick
- to flip
- to accuse
- to impeach
- elastic (of materials)
Trad. 糖彈
- sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences (abbr. for 糖衣炮彈|糖衣炮弹[tang2 yi1 pao4 dan4])
Trad. 肉彈
- suicide attacker; suicide bomber
- voluptuous woman; muscular man
Trad. 回彈
- (of sth that has been deformed) to spring back to original shape
- (fig.) to rebound
- to bounce back
Trad. 彈幕
- barrage (military)
- "bullet screen", function which allows viewers to post on-screen comments in videos, movies etc in real time
- danmaku (video game subgenre)
Trad. 評彈
- pingtan, a traditional Suzhou narrative art that combines storytelling and ballad singing, typically performed by two artists
- also used as a collective term for 評話|评话[ping2 hua4] (spoken storytelling) and 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2] (sung storytelling)
Trad. 彈詞
- ballad tune in southern dialects, usually to sanxian 三弦 or pipa 琵琶 accompaniment
Trad. 反彈
- to bounce
- to bounce back
- to boomerang
- to ricochet
- rebound (of stock market etc)
- bounce
- backlash
- negative repercussions
Trad. 震撼彈
- stun grenade
- (Tw) (fig.) sth that produces shockwaves
- bombshell (revelation)
- blockbuster (product)
Trad. 榴霰彈
- shrapnel shell
- shrapnel
- also pr. [liu2 san3 dan4]
Trad. 真槍實彈
- (idiom) with real guns and live ammunition; (fig.) for real (involving genuine action rather than rehearsal, simulation or theory); (coll.) to have actual sex; to go all the way
Trad. 糖衣炮彈
- sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences
Trad. 一彈指頃
- a snap of the fingers (idiom); in a flash
- in the twinkling of an eye
Trad. 荷槍實彈
- (idiom) armed
- carrying a loaded firearm
Trad. 老調重彈
- to play the same old tune (idiom); unoriginal
Trad. 起飛彈射
- takeoff catapult (on aircraft carrier)
Trad. 動彈不得
- to be unable to move a single step
Trad. 炸彈之母
- Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb
Trad. 炸彈之父
- Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP), or Father of All Bombs, a powerful Russian bomb
Trad. 對牛彈琴
- lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom)
- fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience
- to cast pearls before swine
- caviar to the general
- to preach to deaf ears
- to talk over sb's head
Trad. 洲際導彈
- intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM
Trad. 兩彈一星
- (China's achievements of) producing an atomic bomb (1964) and hydrogen bomb (1967) and launching a satellite into space (1970)
Trad. 舊調重彈
- replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited
- to keep harping on about the same old stuff
Trad. 彈丸之地
- (idiom) tiny speck of land; small area
Trad. 彈冠相慶
- lit. to flick dust off sb's cap (idiom); to celebrate an official appointment
- to congratulate and celebrate (promotion, graduation etc)
Trad. 紅色炸彈
- (jocular) wedding invitation (lit. "red bomb", because wedding invitations use red paper, and invitees are expected to give a substantial sum of money as a wedding gift)
Trad. 彈性模量
- modulus of elasticity
- coefficient of restitution
Trad. 彈撥樂器
- plucked string instrument
- CL:件[jian4]
Trad. 重磅炸彈
- (fig.) sth that produces shockwaves
- bombshell (revelation)
- blockbuster (product)
Trad. 彈盡援絕
- out of ammunition and no hope of reinforcements (idiom); in desperate straits
Trad. 彈盡糧絕
- out of ammunition and no food left (idiom); in desperate straits
Trad. 反導導彈
- anti-missile missile (such as the Patriot Missile)
Trad. 子彈火車
- bullet train
- Shinkansen 新幹線|新干线, Japanese high-speed train
Trad. 空對空導彈
- air-to-air missile
Trad. 彈指一揮間
- in a flash (idiom)
Trad. 導彈核潛艇
- nuclear-powered missile submarine
Trad. 地對空導彈
- ground-to-air missile
Trad. 火箭推進榴彈
- rocket-propelled grenade (RPG)
Trad. 內爆法原子彈
- implosion atomic bomb
Trad. 洲際彈道導彈
- intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM
Trad. 大型空爆炸彈
- Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), a powerful American bomb
Trad. 男兒有淚不輕彈
- real men do not easily cry (idiom)