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| | to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried; to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects | HSK 3 |
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| | to defeat / to damage / to lose (to an opponent) / to fail / to wither | HSK 4 |
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| | to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL: 次 | HSK 4 |
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| | at or in the very same... / suitable / adequate / fitting / proper / to replace / to regard as / to think / to pawn / (coll.) to fail (a student) | HSK 6 |
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| | air force / (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked | HSK 6 |
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| | (of soil etc) to wash away / to be eroded / (fig.) (of talented staff, followers of a religious faith, investment funds etc) to go elsewhere / to fail to be retained | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to fail / to lose effectiveness | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to fail to live up (to expectations) / unworthy (of trust) / to let down / to betray (hopes) / to disappoint | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be overdue / to fail to meet a deadline / to be behind in doing sth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to smash / to pound / to fail / to muck up / to bungle | HSK 7-9 |
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| | failed; busted; to have not succeeded / to have died / to have parted company; to have chilled (of a relationship) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to lose / to miss / to fail | |
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| | to have a miscarriage / (fig.) to fail; to fall through | |
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| | cannot / to fail to / unable to | |
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| | to suffer a defeat / to fail / to fall behind | |
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| | to fail to achieve something; to be fruitless | |
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| | to fail; to fall through; to come to nothing | |
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| | ox; cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise | |
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| | to fail an exam | |
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| | to fail to accomplish / unsuccessful (attempt); abortive (coup d'état); attempted (murder, suicide); unfulfilled (wish) | |
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| | to fail to be chosen (or elected) / to lose an election | |
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| | to fail the imperial exams / to flunk | |
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| | to fail to eventuate / (verb suffix) to be unsuccessful in ...ing | |
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| | ungrateful / heartless / to fail to be loyal to one's love | |
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| | lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful / to fail through lack of a final effort / to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom) | |
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| | to suffer the painful loss of (a loved one etc) / to miss out on (an opportunity) / to fail to gain (victory etc) | |
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| | to fail to pay sufficient attention to / to be negligent in regard to / to be lacking in | |
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| | lit. seek but fail to get (idiom); fig. exactly what one’s been looking for | |
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| | to reconstruct / to repair / to revamp / to revise / to retake a failed course | |
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| | fail to appreciate sb's kindness / not know how to appreciate favors | |
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| | to slap sb's face / to slap one's own face / fig. to fail to live up to a boast | |
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| | to fail in observing or supervising / to miss / to let sth slip through | |
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| | to fail within sight of success (idiom); last-minute failure / to fall at the last hurdle / snatching defeat from the jaws of victory | |
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| | lit. orders are carried out and prohibitions are observed (idiom)fig. to execute every order without fail | |
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| | to fail to meet each other / to conflict with each other / to be at odds with | |
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| | obstructed / to fail / to oppress / to repress / to lower the tone / to bend back / to dampen | |
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| | to fail / to come to nothing / to fall through (of plans, hopes) / to lie | |
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| | to fail to grasp the main points | |
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| | to fail | |
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| | to start but not finish (idiom); to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span | |
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| | (idiom) to fail to finish off what one started | |
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| | unable to turn around a hopeless situation (idiom) / to fail to save the situation | |
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| | to fail to see the larger issue (idiom) / to fail to grasp the big picture | |
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| | to fail to come out on time / to miss a deadline | |
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| | to fail to show up for work | |
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| | not clear / unknown / to fail to understand | |
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| | to fail to return a borrowed item | |
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| | succeed or fail, sharp or blunt (idiom); advantages and disadvantages / success and failure / You win some, you lose some. | |
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| | to start on virtue but give up (idiom); to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span | |
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| | to see what others fail to see (idiom) / to have exceptional insight | |
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| | to start on virtue but give up (idiom); to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span | |
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| | (formal) to delay / to miss a deadline / to fail to do sth at the appointed time | |
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| | to fail (a course) | |
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| | to miss one's step / (of an investor) to fail to invest before the price rises | |
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| | fetus dies in the belly / (fig.) plans or projects failed before being carried out | |
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| | Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898 | |
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| | to peel off / mottled / to fail an exam / to be demoted | |
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| | (law) judgement defaulter (person who has failed to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement, such as paying compensation to sb, despite having the means to do so) / debt dodger | |
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| | Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces | |
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| | "he failed to complete his quest before death" (line from the poem "The Premier of Shu" 蜀相 by Du Fu 杜甫) | |
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| | the Six Gentlemen Martyrs of the failed reform movement of 1898, executed in its aftermath, namely: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同|谭嗣同, Lin Xu 林旭, Yang Shenxiu 楊深秀|杨深秀, Liu Guangdi 劉光第|刘光第, Kang Guangren 康廣仁|康广仁 and Yang Rui 楊銳|杨锐 | |
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| | to confuse (fail to differentiate) | |
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| | (coll.) to stand sb up / to fail to honor an agreement | |
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| | lit. to have eyes but fail to recognize Mt Tai (idiom) / fig. to fail to recognize sb important or sb's great talent / to be blind to the fact | |
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| | Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty | |
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| | to meet with unexpected failure (idiom) / to fail miserably (where failure was not expected) | |
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| | selective blindness caused by a ghost, whereby one fails to notice obvious dangers | |
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| | to break an agreement / to go back on one's word / to fail to keep one's promise | |
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| | lit. disappointed that iron does not turn into steel (idiom) / fig. frustrated with sb who has failed to meet one's expectations | |
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| | to fail / to fail to materialize / not to get one's way | |
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| | Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898 | |
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| | Wang Shuwen (735-806), famous Tang dynasty scholar, Go player and politician, a leader of failed Yongzhen Reform 永貞革新|永贞革新 of 805 | |
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| | (finance) (of a check) to bounce / (fig.) (of a product etc) to fail to be released on schedule | |
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| | to fail the civil service examination (in imperial China) | |
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| | to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom) / to fail utterly in trying to copy something / to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result | |
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| | lit. surging waters flooded the Dragon King temple (idiom) / fig. to fail to recognize a familiar person / a dispute between close people who fail to recognize each other | |
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| | Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | to be ashamed to face (sb) / to feel bad about having failed (sb) | |
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| | failed reform of Northern Song government in 1043 | |
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| | Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty | |
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| | Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty | |
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| | lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect / well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it | |
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| | (idiom) blind as a bat (figuratively) / unaware of who (or what) one is dealing with / to fail to recognize what sb a bit more perceptive would | |
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| | to be distracted from one's work and fail to achieve results (idiom) | |
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| | Yongzhen Reform, Tang dynasty failed reform movement of 805 led by Wang Shuwen 王叔文 | |
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| | (of an item) to fail to sell at an auction | |
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| | Wang Pi (-c. 806), Tang dynasty chancellor and a leader of failed Yongzhen reform 永貞革新|永贞革新 of 805 | |
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| | to fail (a student) / to pawn / (of a computer or program) to crash / to stop working | |
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| | to waste one's life; to fail to make the most of one's life | |
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| | Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty | |
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| | to return empty-handed / to fail to win anything | |
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| | to flunk / to fail a test | |
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| | (idiom) to fail at every step of the way / Taiwan pr. [zhuo2zhuo2shi1bai4] | |
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| | to fail to keep to one's word / to break a promise | |
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| | to fail / to flunk | |
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| | to be disappointing / to fail to live up to expectations | |
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| | lit. to fall behind Sun Shan 孫山|孙山 (who came last in the imperial examination) (idiom) / fig. to fail an exam / to fall behind (in a competition) | |
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| | to fail to greet in timely manner | |
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