Example sentences for: dian

How can you use “dian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In spite of political barriers, the academic circle in the mainland of China prefer dian nao to their original translation of calculating machine: calculating being just one of the several functions of computers, Taiwan's translation is felt to be more exact.

  • The Hall of Clocks, located in the Hall of Worshipping Ancestors (Feng Xian Dian), contains the imperial collection of timepieces, many of them 18th-century gifts from England, America, and Europe.

  • The final hall of the Outer Court, the Hall of Preserving Harmony (Bao He Dian), is where emperors received China’s best students from the annual imperial examinations that determined who would enter the bureaucracy.

  • The film, which purports to explore the circumstances under which a celebrated anthropologist, Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), disappeared among Rwandan gorillas and emerged two years later as a mute and wild-eyed killer of park rangers, is loaded with radical credos--ideas evocative of Kafka, deep ecology, and Dian Fossey at her most gorillaphilic.

  • The Hall of Jade Ripples (Yulan Dian) is where Cixi confined her nephew, Emperor Guangxu, while she ruled in his place.


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