"Influence" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yǐng xiǎng influence / effect / to influence / to affect (usually adversely) / to disturb / CL:股[gu3]
 zuǒ yòu left and right / nearby / approximately / attendant / to control / to influence
 gǎn rǎn infection / to infect / to influence
 shì li power / influence / a force (military, political etc)
 yǐng zi shadow / reflection / (fig.) hint / indication / influence / CL:個|个[ge4]
 shēng shì fame and power / prestige / influence / impetus / momentum
 xūn táo to seep in / to influence / to nurture / influence / training
 yǐng xiǎng lì influence / impact
 quán shì power / influence
 lái tóu cause / reason / interest / influence
 huà yǔ quán ability to have one's say and be listened to / influence / clout
 gǎn huà corrective influence / to reform (a criminal) / redemption (of a sinner) / to influence (a malefactor to a better life) / to guide sb back to the right path by repeated word and example
 shēng wēi prestige / renown / influence
 shì power / influence / potential / momentum / tendency / trend / situation / conditions / outward appearance / sign / gesture / male genitals
 rú rǎn to infect / to influence / to dip (in ink)
 hòu mén the back door / fig. under the counter (indirect way for influence or pressure) / anus
 líng qì spiritual influence (of mountains etc) / cleverness / ingeniousness
 jiǔ hòu after drinking / under the influence of alcohol
 tuō fú (old) thanks to your lucky influence (polite reply to health inquiries)
 qián yí mò huà imperceptible influence / to influence secretly
 xié qì evil influence / unhealthy trend / (a person's) evil air / aura of wickedness / (TCM) pathogenic energy (opposite: 正氣|正气[zheng4 qi4], vital energy)
 wēi shì might / power and influence
 sǐ huī fù rán lit. ashes burn once more (idiom) / fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one
 shà qì baleful look / inauspicious influence / (of a tire, balloon etc) to leak air
 jiǔ hòu jià chē driving under the influence
 zǒu hòu mén lit. to enter by the back door / fig. to gain influence by pull or unofficial channels / back door or under the counter connections
 ná rén making things awkward / to cause difficulties / to exert influence / to attract
 jié shēn zì hào clean-living and honest (idiom) / to avoid immorality / to shun evil influence / to mind one's own business and keep out of trouble / to keep one's hands clean
 wāi fēng unhealthy trend / noxious influence
 chūn fēng huà yǔ lit. spring wind and rain (idiom) / fig. the long-term influence of a solid education
 wén huà juàn sphere of cultural influence
 wén huà quān sphere of cultural influence
 biān cháng mò jí lit. the whip cannot reach (idiom) / beyond one's influence / too far to be able to help
 Qū Qiū bái Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March
 cái shì wealth and influence
 xūn rǎn to exert a gradual influence / to nurture / a corrupting influence
 liú dú to spread poison / pernicious influence
 jiè huā xiàn Fó lit. presenting the Buddha with borrowed flowers (idiom) / fig. to win favor or influence using sb else's property / plagiarism
 qún dài guān xi favoritism shown to sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative / (by extension) favoritism towards relatives, friends or associates
 xióng male / staminate / grand / imposing / powerful / mighty / person or state having great power and influence
 jìn mò zhě hēi proximity to pitch makes you black (idiom, from Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修) / different environments provide different influence. / Nurture determines a person's character.
 míng shī chū gāo tú A famous teacher trains a fine student (idiom). A cultured man will have a deep influence on his successors.
 yīn hún bù sàn lit. the soul of a deceased has not yet dispersed (idiom) / fig. the influence still lingers on / the spirit (of some doctrine) is still alive
 mén zi door / doorman (old) / hanger-on of an aristocrat / social influence / pull / classifier for relatives, marriages etc
 zhí jiē yǐng xiǎng direct influence / immediate impact
线 sān shí bā dù xiàn 38th parallel / dividing line agreed at Yalta between US and Soviet zones of influence in Korea, now the DMZ between North and South Korea
 jù dà yǐng xiǎng huge influence
广 guǎng fàn yǐng xiǎng wide ranging influence
 è liè yǐng xiǎng evil influence
 Qīng liú clean flowing water / (fig.) (literary) honorable person, untainted by association with disreputable influences / scholars who (in former times) kept themselves aloof from the corrupting influence of those in power
 wáng huà beneficial influence of the sovereign
 qún dài fēng the practice of favoring sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative / (by extension) culture of favoritism towards relatives, friends and associates
 guàn qì (feng shui) beneficial influence, esp. from one's ancestral graves / to confer a beneficial influence
线 zǒu nèi xiàn insider contacts / via private channels / to seek influence with sb via family members (possibly dishonest or underhand)
 dào gāo yì ān , shì gāo yì wēi More moral strength increases one's safety, more power and influence increases one's danger (idiom, from Records of the Historian 史記|史记). cf Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it (William Pitt the Elder, 1770).
 jiǔ hòu jià shǐ driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI)
 jiǔ yán jiǔ yǔ words spoken under the influence of alcohol (idiom)
 zuān móu to use influence to get what one wants / to find a way through (esp. corrupt) / to succeed by means fair or foul
 fēng xié pathogenic influence (TCM)
 Hēi Jí Yuān hún Black Register of Lost Souls, long novel by Peng Yangou 彭養鷗|彭养鸥 / about the destructive influence of opium, published in 1897 and 1909
 fù wài bù xìng negative influence, effect that people's doings or behavior have on others (society)
 zhèng wài bù xìng positive influence, effect that people's doings or behavior have on others (society)
  influence quantity
 cí lì yǐn bào yǐn xìn magnetically actuated fuse / magnetic influence fuse
  combination influence mine
 yǐng xiǎng bàn jìng radius of influence
线 yǐng xiǎng qū xiàn area of influence line
  influence-fused mine / influence mine
  influence-fused mine / influence mine
  non-contact influence
 yǐng xiǎng miàn reach of influence / affected area
 qún dài guān official who gained his position through the influence of a female relative
 kè qí (loanword) kitsch, in a sense that originates in the writing of Milan Kundera: getting emotional about sth due to the influence of social conditioning
 bà qī to use one's power and influence to take another man's wife for oneself
 Qú Qiū bái Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March
 Fǎn shèn tòu fǎ (Tw) Anti-infiltration Act (2020), which regulates the influence of entities deemed foreign hostile forces
 qiào dòng to shift sth with a crowbar etc / (fig.) to influence by applying leverage
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