Powered by CC-CEDICT
Trad. 軟爛
- (of food etc) soft; pulpy
- (Tw) (of a person) lacking drive; shiftless; lazy
Trad. 軟糯
- soft and chewy (mouthfeel)
- (of a voice) tender; coaxing; clinging
Trad. 軟臥
- soft sleeper (a type of sleeper train ticket class with a softer bunk)
Trad. 手軟
- to be lenient
- to relent
- to be reluctant to make a hard decision
- to think twice
Trad. 鬆軟
- flexible
- not rigid
- spongy
- soft or runny (not set hard)
- loose (soil)
Trad. 服軟
- to admit defeat
- to give in
- to acknowledge a mistake
- to apologize
- to be amenable to persuasion
Trad. 軟尺
- soft measuring tape (non-retractable type used for body measurements etc)
Trad. 軟著陸
- (aviation) soft landing
- (economics) soft landing
Trad. 軟釘子
- lit. a soft nail
- fig. a tactful retort or rejection
Trad. 到手軟
- (do a manual task) until one's hands go limp with exhaustion
Trad. 軟刀子
- (lit.) the soft knife
- (fig.) underhanded tactics
- devious means of attack
Trad. 軟硬兼施
- use both carrot and stick
- use gentle methods and force
- an iron hand in a velvet glove
Trad. 軟磨硬泡
- to coax and pester (idiom)
- to wheedle
- to cajole
Trad. 嘴硬心軟
- see 刀子嘴，豆腐心[dao1 zi5 zui3 , dou4 fu5 xin1]
Trad. 軟骨魚類
- cartilaginous fishes
- Chondrichthyes (taxonomic class including sharks and rays)
Trad. 教學軟體
- (Tw) educational software
- courseware
Trad. 自由軟件
- free software (i.e. software for which sharing, modification etc is permitted)
Trad. 財務軟件
- financial software
- accounting software
Trad. 骺軟骨板
- epiphyseal plate
- growth plate (bone)
Trad. 小兒軟骨病
- (medicine) rickets
Trad. 數據庫軟件
- database software
Trad. 土耳其軟糖
- Turkish delight
- Lokum
Trad. 吃硬不吃軟
- susceptible to force but not persuasion
Trad. 軟件即服務
- software as a service (SaaS)
Trad. 吃軟不吃硬
- lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom)
- amenable to coaxing but not coercion
Trad. 開放源碼軟件
- open-source software (OSS)
Trad. 柿子挑軟的捏
- lit. it's the soft persimmons that people choose to squeeze (idiom)
- fig. it's the weak (i.e. 軟柿子|软柿子[ruan3 shi4 zi5]) who get picked on
- bullies pick soft targets
Trad. 自由軟件基金會
- Free Software Foundation
Trad. 雷公打豆腐，揀軟的欺
- the God of Thunder strikes bean curd, a bully picks the weakest person
- to pick on an easy target