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yín 银 zhuāng 装 sù 素 guǒ 裹

银装素裹 yín zhuāng sù guǒ

clad in white after a snowfall; a snow-covered landscape

Literally: silver dressed plain wrapped

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Origin

Popularised by Mao Zedong's poem 沁园春·雪: 山舞银蛇……看红装素裹, later fixed in this form.

How to use it

Predicate or attributive; positive, literary. Often 大地银装素裹.

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  1. 一夜大雪过后，整座城市银装素裹，美得像一幅画。
    Yī yè dà xuě guòhòu, zhěng zuò chéngshì yín zhuāng sù guǒ, měi de xiàng yī fú huà.
    After a night of heavy snow the whole city was clad in white, as beautiful as a painting.
    one night big snow after, whole (measure) city silver dressed plain wrapped, beautiful (particle) like one (measure) painting
  2. 游客们纷纷拍下银装素裹的长城。
    Yóukèmen fēnfēn pāixià yín zhuāng sù guǒ de Chángchéng.
    Tourists one after another photographed the snow-covered Great Wall.
    tourists one-after-another photograph-down silver dressed plain wrapped (particle) Great-Wall

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