- (才能) ability; talent; gift; endowment:
have both ability and political integrity;
德才兼备
be gifted in many ways
多才多艺
- (有才能的人) capable person:
unusual [remarkable] talent;
奇才
a person of talent; talent
人才
- (姓氏) a surname:
Cai Kuan
才宽
- (表示事情在前不久发生; 刚才):
The performance has just started.
节目才开始。
Why leave so soon? You've only just arrived.
怎么,才来就要走?
- (表示事情发生或结束得晚):
Why are you so late?
你怎么才来?
He left Dalian only yesterday.
他昨天才离开大连。
- (表示只有在某种条件下,或由于某种原因、目的、然后怎么样,前面常有“只有、必须、因为、由于” 等配合;方才):
Must we wait till the crane arrives before we start loading?
非要等起重机来了才能装运吗?
Only you study hard can you get good results.
只有肯努力,才能得到好的学习成绩。
- (对比起来表示数量小,次数少,能力差等等; 仅仅):
Before liberation, China's highest annual output of steel was only just over 900,000 tons.
解放前全国钢年产量最高才90多万吨。
He was only five years old then.
当时他才五岁。
- (表示强调所说的事,句尾常用“呢”字):
The wheat is coming along fine.
麦子长得才好呢 !
It would be strange if he didn't know.
他要是不知道才怪呢 !