烂熟 (làn shú) — thoroughly cooked (of food, especially meat or stew); sound asleep (of a person); thoroughly familiar (of knowledge, skills, or text)
Definition
Means 'cooked to a turn / deeply familiar' — used with verbs like 炖, 背, 睡 to intensify the result. In modern Chinese it appears most often as 烂熟于心 ('know something inside out').
verb
thoroughly cooked (of food, especially meat or stew)sound asleep (of a person)thoroughly familiar (of knowledge, skills, or text)
Examples
- 烂熟，。Zhè guō niú ròu dùn dé làn shú, rù kǒu jí huà.This pot of beef has been stewed until it's thoroughly cooked — it melts in your mouth.
- ，烂熟。Tā lèi le yì tiān, dǎo zài chuáng shàng jiù shuì dé làn shú.He was exhausted after a long day and fell sound asleep as soon as he hit the bed.
- 烂熟，。Zhè piān yǎn jiǎng gǎo tā yǐ jīng bèi dé làn shú, shàng tái yì diǎn yě bù jǐn zhāng.He has memorized this speech thoroughly — he's not nervous at all on stage.
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