实验

Meaning(verbal noun, noun, verb)

experiment; test; experimental; to experiment

Measure words: 个、次

Examples

• 我们下午在实验室做实验。

  wǒ men xià wǔ zài shí yàn shì zuò shí yàn.

  We're doing experiments in the lab this afternoon.

• 这个实验失败了好几次。

  zhè ge shí yàn shī bài le hǎo jǐ cì.

  This experiment failed several times.

• 实验结果证明他是对的。

  shí yàn jié guǒ zhèng míng tā shì duì de.

  The experiment's results proved him right.

Easily confused

• 试验 — 实验 is a scientific experiment; 试验 is a trial or test of a new product or method.

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