泥ní ❶ （含水的半固体状的土） mud; mire: 刮掉鞋上的 ～ scrape the mud off one's shoes; ～ 墙 mud wall; 我的上衣上全是 ～。 My coat is covered with mud.
❷ （像泥的东西） any paste-like matter; mashed vegetable or fruit: 苹果 ～ apple sauce; 肉 ～ minced meat; 蒜 ～ mashed garlic; 土豆 ～ mashed potato; 印 ～ Chinese ink-pad; red ink paste used for seals; 枣 ～ jujube paste
❸ （姓氏） a surname: ～ 坚 Ni Jian
另见 see also nì。
◆泥巴 [方] mud; mire; 泥泵 dredge pump; 泥刀 trowel; 泥地 mud ground; muddy ground; quagmire; 泥肥 {农} sludge; silt; mud fertilizer; muck; 泥封 scove; 泥工 bricklayer; 泥垢 dirt; grime; 泥灰 musky coal; marl; 泥浆 slurry; mud; 泥金 coating material made of glue and powdered gold or other metals; golden paint; 泥坑 mud pit; mire; morass; mud puddle; alunk; 泥块 lumps of clay; 泥疗 {医} mud therapy; 泥流 earthflow; mud￣ spate; Rollsteinfluten; mudflow; soilflow; soil fluction; sludging; solifluction; 泥煤 peat; mush; boghead(ite) coal; sapropelite; 泥煤田 turbary; 泥淖 morass; mire; bog; 泥泞 muddy; miry; sloppy; slushy; miriness; 泥牛入海 The clay oxen going into the sea — never to return.; Clay oxen plummet in the sea — vanish.; gone forever; like clay oxen entering the sea — never to be heard of again; 泥盆纪 {地} Devonian Period; 泥盆系 the Devonian System; 泥坯 moulded pottery not yet put in a kiln to bake; 泥菩萨过江[河], 自身难保 be like a bunch of clay idols crossing a river — each one is looking out for his own survival; (One tries in vain to save himself from disaster) just like the clay idol which fords the river.; like a clay idol fording a river, hardly able to save oneself; 泥鳅 loach; mud fish; 泥人 {工美} clay figurine; 泥沙 {地} silt; sediment; 泥沙俱下， 鱼龙混杂 Water flows down with sand and mud together.; Mud and sand are carried along — there is a mingling of good and bad.; The waters were muddied, the bad became mixed with the good.; 泥石流 {地} mud-rock flow; debris flow; mud avalanche; detritus stream; 泥水匠 bricklayer; tiler; plasterer; 泥塑 clay sculpture; 泥胎 unpainted clay idol; unfired pottery; 泥滩 {地质} flat; mudbank; mud flat; 泥炭 turf; peat; 泥塘 mire; bog; morass; letch; pulk; 泥土 earth; soil; dirt; clay; argilla; 泥腿子 bumpkin; clodhopper; 泥瓦匠[工] bricklayer; tiler; plasterer; 泥质 argillaceous; 泥足巨人 be a colossus with feet of clay; a person or a thing strong outside but weak inside
泥nìⅠ (用土、灰等涂抹墙壁或器物) cover or daub with plaster, putty, etc.; putty; plaster: 把窗玻璃用油灰 ～ 上 fix a windowpane with putty; ～ 墙 cover the crevices in a wall with mud or plaster Ⅱ （固执） stubborn; bigoted; obstinate: 拘 ～ be a stickler for; rigidly adhere to
另见 see also ní。
◆泥古 have bigoted belief in the ancients; obstinately follow ancient ways; 泥子 {建} putty |