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where? / wherever; anywhere; somewhere / (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?
HSK 1
don't tell me ... / could it be that...?
HSK 3
unexpected / hard to imagine / it had not occurred to me / who could have thought that
HSK 6
it could even be said
HSK 7-9
can it be possible that / could it be
HSK 7-9
wishing one could do sth; to hate to be unable; itching to do sth
HSK 7-9
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  *鲲* | 鲲* | *鲲
fry (newly hatched fish) / legendary giant fish that could transform into a giant bird 鵬|鹏
or / could it be that...?
the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475-221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist
extreme joy turns to sorrow (idiom); Don't celebrate too soon, things could still go wrong!
probably / perhaps / could it be that...?
tiger tally (a two-piece object made in the shape of a tiger, used in ancient China as proof of authority. One half of a tally could be issued to a military officer and this would be matched with the other half when verification was required.)
(idiom) after one's own heart; gratifying; satisfactory; everything one could wish
could happen at any moment / on the verge
flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom); wide expanse of flat country
how could one dare? / I don't deserve such praise
to tie up (funds or resources etc that could otherwise be used)
lit. so numerous that one could just bend down and pick them up (idiom) / fig. extremely common; easily available
don't tell me ... / could it be that...?
could I have a word with you? (in private)
How do you mean? / How could that be the case? / How so?
(coll.) to feel as though one's head could explode (Tw)
lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
who would have thought? / who could have imagined? / unexpectedly
what's the matter? / what's going on? / how could that be? / how did that come about? / what's it all about?
if you take too big a stride, you could easily rip your balls (catchphrase) (line spoken by actor 葛優|葛优 in the 2010 action comedy movie 讓子彈飛|让子弹飞) / (fig.) take things one step at a time
(lit.) so exhausted (by difficulties in a relationship) that one feels one could never fall in love again (Internet slang) / disenchanted with sth
household responsibility system, introduced in the early 1980s, under which each rural household could freely decide what to produce and how to sell, as long as it fulfilled its quota of products to the state


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