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Trad. 滾刀
- (engineering) gear hob (cutting tool used in manufacturing gears)
Trad. 滾動
- to roll
- (to do sth) in a loop
- to scroll (computing)
- to progressively expand (economics)
- to rumble (of thunder)
Trad. 滾石
- Rock Records, Taiwanese record label
- the Rolling Stones, British rock band
- Rolling Stone (magazine)
Trad. 滾輪
- roller
- rotating dial
- (computer mouse) scroll wheel
- (road roller) drum
Trad. 滾開
- (of a liquid) to boil; boiling hot
- (rude) get out!; go away!; fuck off!
Trad. 回滾
- (computing) to roll back
- rollback
- (sports) (of a ball) to come back (due to backspin or sloping ground)
Trad. 地滾球
- ten-pin bowling
- bowling ball
- (baseball etc) ground ball
Trad. 利滾利
- compound interest (esp. in loans, snowballing debt)
Trad. 滾刀塊
- chunks obtained by repeatedly cutting a vegetable diagonally and rotating the vegetable after each cut
Trad. 滾彩蛋
- egg rolling (rolling of decorated, hard-boiled eggs down hillsides by children at Easter)
Trad. 滾裝船
- roll-on, roll-off ship (RORO ship); vessel designed to load and unload vehicles by driving them on and off
Trad. 硝煙滾滾
- (idiom) smoke billows from the raging battle
Trad. 屁滾尿流
- to piss one's pants in terror (idiom)
- scared witless
Trad. 滾油煎心
- to suffer mental anguish (idiom)
Trad. 滾瓜爛熟
- lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently
- to know sth inside out
- to know sth by heart
Trad. 滾石上山
- lit. to roll a boulder up a hill (like Sisyphus) (idiom)
- fig. to engage in a highly challenging task with perseverance and determination
Trad. 摸爬滾打
- to go through challenging experiences
- to become seasoned (in one's profession etc)
Trad. 財源滾滾
- profits pouring in from all sides (idiom)
- raking in money
- bonanza
Trad. 連滾帶爬
- (idiom) stumbling and crawling; scrambling; frantically trying to escape
Trad. 瓜無滾圓，人無十全
- no gourd is perfectly round, just as no man is perfect (proverb)