Read Edit View history 泡汤 pàotāng dawdle Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 泡汤 (泡湯) pàotāng dawdle verb to waste time or stall for time 他在卫生间里一直泡汤，耽误了大家出门的时间。 tā zài wèishēngjiān lǐ yīzhí pàotāng, dānwu le dàjiā chūmén de shíjiān. He took such a long time soaking in the bathroom that he delayed everyone's departure. fizzle out verb to fail, fall through, or come to nothing 因为资金不足，那个项目彻底泡汤了。 yīnwèi zījīn bùzú, nàgè xiàngmù chèdǐ pàotāng le. The project completely fell through due to a lack of funding. hot spring soak verb to soak in a hot spring bath 我们周末打算去阳明山泡汤。 wǒmen zhōumò dǎsuàn qù Yángmíng Shān pàotāng. We plan to go to Yangmingshan for hot springs this weekend. Frequency Movie subtitles 3.22 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 2.07 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
泡汤 (泡湯) pàotāng dawdle verb to waste time or stall for time 他在卫生间里一直泡汤，耽误了大家出门的时间。 tā zài wèishēngjiān lǐ yīzhí pàotāng, dānwu le dàjiā chūmén de shíjiān. He took such a long time soaking in the bathroom that he delayed everyone's departure. fizzle out verb to fail, fall through, or come to nothing 因为资金不足，那个项目彻底泡汤了。 yīnwèi zījīn bùzú, nàgè xiàngmù chèdǐ pàotāng le. The project completely fell through due to a lack of funding. hot spring soak verb to soak in a hot spring bath 我们周末打算去阳明山泡汤。 wǒmen zhōumò dǎsuàn qù Yángmíng Shān pàotāng. We plan to go to Yangmingshan for hot springs this weekend. Frequency Movie subtitles 3.22 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 2.07 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)