汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 病夫
病夫
sick man
病人。
bìng
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

德国是欧洲的“病夫”,正如日本是亚洲的病源。

Germany is Europe's "sick man", just as Japan is Asia's.

过去,我们的国家积贫积弱,国民体质不佳,西方人讽刺我们是“东亚病夫”。

Pass by, our nations accumulate a poverty to accumulate weak, citizen's physical endowment is poor and western person's satirizing us is "disease man in East Asia".

也有过因疏远海洋,丧失了世界文明领先地位,沦为“东亚病夫”而遭受任人崭割的悲惨岁月。

As a result of neglecting the importance of the ocean, China lost the leading stage in the world civilization and had once been called "Silkmen of East Asia ".

本期我们将与大家分享这60年来中国体育史上的辉煌时刻,见证一个"东亚病夫"崛起成为体育大国。

Now let's share the great moments in China's sports history in the past 60 years.

举例来说,过去的二十年里,德国的单位人工成本比欧元区平均水平高出12%,也因此得到了“欧洲病夫”的绰号。

Two decades ago Germany's unit Labour costs, for instance, were some 12% above the euro-zone average, earning it the epithet of the "sick man of Europe".

十年前,德国还是欧洲的一介病夫,长期受缓慢的经济增长与高失业率的困扰;其大型制造商也纷纷外迁,以竭力寻求更低的生产成本。

A decade ago Germany was the sick man of Europe, plagued by slow growth and high unemployment, with big manufacturers moving out in a desperate search for lower costs.