老是

lǎoshì
  1. (colloquial, often derogatory) always; forever
  2. always; forever

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Homographs

老是 lǎoshi always

Examples

他老是开夜车。

He always sits up late at night.

He's always burning the midnight oil.

Source: Tatoeba

汤姆老是发牢骚。

Tom complains all the time.

Source: Tatoeba

这儿老是这麽冷吗？

Is it always so cold here?

Source: Tatoeba

我最近老是见到他。

I have seen much of him lately.

I've seen a lot of him recently.

Source: Tatoeba

我老是写白字读破句。

As usual, I mispronounced words and broke my sentences up in the wrong places.

Source: Tatoeba

她老是弄丢她的手帕。

She is always losing her handkerchief.

Source: Tatoeba

我老是忘记人们的名字。

I always forget people's names.

Source: Tatoeba

他在学校老是被人欺负。

He always gets bullied at school.

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他老是把我和我姐姐搞错。

He always mistakes me for my sister.

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她老是吹嘘自己是个游泳健将。

She always boasts of being a good swimmer.

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小李经常失眠，因为他的邻居老是大声地吵架。

Xiaoli often loses sleep because his neighbours are always arguing loudly.

Source: Tatoeba

你这孩子！别老是接触一些陌生人，很危险的！

Son, stop always getting so close to strangers. It's very dangerous!

Source: Tatoeba

「我昨天首次见到了一个我网上认识的朋友。」「就是老是在妳口头的那个叫汤姆的小伙子？」「没错。」「然后怎麽样呢？」「他没我想像中那样好看。」

"I met a friend for the first time yesterday who I'd got to know online." "Ah, this Tom fella you're always going on about." "That's the one!" "And how was it?" "He wasn't as good-looking as I thought he'd be."

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

1 老 lǎo
  1. prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity
  2. old (of people)
  3. venerable (person)
  4. experienced
  5. of long standing
  6. always
  7. all the time
  8. of the past
  9. very
  10. outdated
  11. (of meat etc) tough
=2 是 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=2 是 shì variant of 是 shì