下地 (xià de) — to go to work in the fields; to leave a sickbed (get up after illness)
Definition
Two distinct uses of the same verb: 1) farmers going out to work in the fields; 2) a patient finally getting out of bed after illness. Sense 1 is concrete, sense 2 is a set phrase meaning recovery.
verb
to go to work in the fieldsto leave a sickbed (get up after illness)
Examples
- 。Tā xià guò yí cì dì jiù lèi dé bù xíng le.He went to the fields once and was exhausted.
- ，下地。Tā bìng le yí gè yuè, jīn tiān zhōng yú néng xià de le.He was sick for a month, and today he can finally leave his sickbed.
- 下地。Nóng mín men yí dà zǎo jiù xià de le.The farmers went to the fields early in the morning.
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