栋梁 | dòng liáng | ridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility; mainstay (of organization); pillar (of state) | |
雕梁画栋 | diāo liáng huà dòng | richly ornamented (building) | |
汗牛充栋 | hàn niú chōng dòng | lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books | |
吴作栋 | wú zuò dòng | Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004 | |
画栋雕梁 | huà dòng diāo liáng | a richly ornamented building (idiom) |
1 | He said, you know that building? | |
2 | The wicket from which the pair had lately emerged was in the wall of this structure. | |
3 | Who bought that new house down the street from you? | |
4 | I don't know why but I had to get out of that house and go home. | |
5 | He operates his own warehouses a few miles from the school, in the basements of a pair of residential buildings. |