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雷
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Definitions
- 1. thunder
- 2. (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[dì léi] land mine
- 3. (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound
Example Sentences
1 shown準備發射魚 雷 。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 雷
Leibo county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[liáng shān yí zú zì zhì zhōu], south Sichuan
Ray Romano (1957-), US actor and comedian
all thunder but no rain (idiom)
(bird species of China) willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus)
Zhang Tailei (1898-1927), founding member of Chinese communist party
baited trap
Trevor (name)
mine detector (employee)
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880
not overstepping the prescribed limits
Teresa
Dresden, Germany
Frederick (name)
Leishan county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州[qián dōng nán zhōu], Guizhou
radar (loanword)
minesweeper
Dreyfus affair 1894-1906, notorious political scandal in France case involving antisemitism and miscarriage of justice
lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells
sound of thunder
Tourette syndrome
Florentino Pérez (1947-), Spanish businessman and president of Real Madrid football club
thunderclap
Luilang, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina
purex
Preston, city in England
Bretton woods conference in 1944 of allied powers, regulating world exchange rates and setting up IMF and world bank
to detect mines
sudden clap of thunder
detonator
Halley's Comet
Rennes
Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick, Canada
(bird species of China) rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta)
Rex (name)
Frazer (name)
beret (loanword)
Quake (video game series)
apatosaurus
thunder and lightning
Earl Grey tea
Shimon Peres (1923-2016), Israel politician, prime minister in 1977, 1984-1986 and 1995-1996, president 2007-2014, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1994
lit. much thunder but little rain; fig. a lot of talk but little action
Sucre, constitutional capital of Bolivia
Tolui (1193-1232), fourth son of Genghis Khan
Hamlet (name)
thundershower
land mine (CL:顆|颗[kē])
Harare, capital of Zimbabwe
lit. loud thunder, but only tiny drops of rain (idiom)
thunderstorm
Grey
reggae (loanword)
(coll.) to wonder secretly
Raymond (name)
(military) to clear mines; mine clearance
(Internet slang) shocking
Gray's Anatomy (medical reference book)
to stamp with fury; to fly into a rage
Lei Feng (1940-1962), made into a model of altruism and dedication to the Party by propaganda from 1963 onwards
lightning arrester
not shaken by thunder (idiom); the arrangements are unalterable
Freyr (god in Norse mythology)
to be furious
floating mine
thunderous snoring
Renoir (name)
Leizhou, county-level city in Zhanjiang 湛江[zhàn jiāng], Guangdong
Pressburg (Slovakia)
thunderous applause (idiom)
Tampere (Swedish Tammerfors), Finland's second city
deep growling thunder
to lay mines
reggae (loanword)
Lexus
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian scientist
to be in a thundering rage (idiom)
(slang) cop
torpedo boat
António Guterres (1949-), secretary-general of the United Nations (2017-), prime minister of Portugal (1995-2002)
Lehman Brothers, investment bank
Leibo county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[liáng shān yí zú zì zhì zhōu], south Sichuan
Leishan county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州[qián dōng nán zhōu], Guizhou
brontometer
Clark T. Randt Jr. (1945-), US ambassador to Beijing 2001-2009
(George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek)
Raytheon Company, US defense contractor
(of a P2P lending platform) to collapse
to be thundering
Elvis Presley (1935-1977), US pop singer and film star
Reykjavik, capital of Iceland
Leizhou Peninsula
sound of thunder
pass like thunder and move like the wind (idiom); swift and decisive reaction
Leifeng Pagoda, by West Lake until it was destroyed (also from Madam White Snake)
Dreyer (name)
also written 鐳射|镭射
Tyrannosaurus rex
selfless model citizen, just like Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[léi fēng]
torpedo
Leizhou, county-level city in Zhanjiang 湛江[zhàn jiāng], Guangdong
Lehman or Leymann (name)
thunderstorm
dare not go one step beyond the prescribed limit
lit. like thunder piercing the ear
naval mine
the God of Thunder strikes bean curd, a bully picks the weakest person
capercaillie (Lagopus, several species)
Monterey
Gustave Dore (1832-1883), French artist and sculptor
lightning strike
radar antenna
Klebsiella pnenmoniae
Adelaide, capital of South Australia
minesweeper (computer game)
Luilang, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
thunderbolt
thunder rolls
the God of Thunder strikes bean curd
Greymouth, town in New Zealand
minelayer (ship)
Tuareg (nomadic people of the Sahara)
John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962), second-generation American missionary in China, first president of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China
god of thunder (Chinese Leigong 雷公[léi gōng], Norse Thor 索爾|索尔[suǒ ěr], Greek Zeus 宙斯[zhòu sī] etc)
Lei Gong or Duke of Thunder, the God of Thunder in Chinese mythology
mirroring others
Gustav Stresemann (Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic)
nuclear land mine
Ciudad Real
Anchorage (city in Alaska)
optical radar (lidar)
minefield (lit. and fig.)
thunder
Charles Grey (1764-1845), prime minister of the United Kingdom 1830-34
Regina (name)
Dreyfus (name)
to rumble with thunder
Brest, westernmost town in France
Canterbury
Riesling (grape type)
minesweeper
transponder
Lake Urmia, northwest Iran, a major salt lake
Klebsiella
Taiwan equivalent of 里根[lǐ gēn]
Renault (French car company)
lightning rod
muffled thunder
thunderclap
grenade
The Canterbury Tales, collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer 喬叟|乔叟[qiáo sǒu]
thunderbolt
real (Brazilian currency) (loanword)