| | to have spare time / free from work / it's not important / it's nothing / never mind | HSK 1 |
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| | it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind / think nothing of it; it's my pleasure; you're welcome | HSK 1 |
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| | always / at all times / never (if used in negative sentence) | HSK 3 |
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| | unimportant / not serious / it doesn't matter / never mind / it looks all right, but | HSK 4 |
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| | never | HSK 6 |
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| | never (in the past) / never did | HSK 6 |
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| | never / will never | HSK 7-9 |
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| | never | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to act shamelessly / to refuse to acknowledge that one has lost the game, or made a promise etc / to act dumb / to act as if sth never happened | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom) / fig. to act belatedly / better late than never / to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted | HSK 7-9 |
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| | never | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归, has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin | |
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| | (slang) never been in a romantic relationship | |
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| | lit. diligent and never slacking (idiom); continuous concentrated effort / assiduous (in study) / to concentrate | |
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| | Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢, with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi | |
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| | (idiom) to live forever and never grow old | |
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| | (idiom) (when followed by 不) at no time; never (Note: 無時無刻不|无时无刻不 therefore means "at no time not ...", i.e. "at all times".) / (when not followed by 不) at all times; always | |
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| | (reduplicated) whether... or... / never mind / fine (indicating acceptance or resignation) | |
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| | (of sound) to never stop / to fall incessantly on the ear / to linger on | |
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| | to enjoy sth and never tire of it (idiom) | |
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| | unprecedented / for the first time / never before / first ever | |
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| | eternal glory / will never be forgotten | |
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| | know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法) | |
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| | there can never be too much deception in war / in war nothing is too deceitful / all's fair in war | |
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| | (idiom) without end; never-ending | |
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| | avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied | |
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| | unfailing / never-ending | |
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| | misfortune does not come singly (idiom) / it never rains but it pours | |
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| | to have no offspring / never to be seen again; unique | |
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| | unable to accomplish anything but liable to spoil everything (idiom) / unable to do anything right / never make, but always mar | |
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| | to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom) | |
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| | to change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty / never satisfied with what one has | |
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| | unprecedented and never to be duplicated / the first and the last / unmatched / unique | |
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| | Time that has passed will never come back. (idiom) | |
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| | long time off / time that will never come | |
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| | soul brothers / friends in spirit who have never met / to commune with | |
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| | never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite | |
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| | meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere / going around in circles | |
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| | avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied | |
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| | unprecedented / never seen since ancient times | |
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| | never to be forgotten | |
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| | to expect (often in negative combination, I never expected...) / to look forward to | |
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| | (idiom) to have never met sb before; entirely unacquainted | |
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| | (idiom) blessings never come in pairs | |
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| | a kite that is lost after its string breaks (metaphor for sb one never hears from anymore) | |
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| | lit. a door hinge never becomes worm-eaten / constant activity prevents decay (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) always at loggerheads; never able to agree with sb; unable to get on with sb | |
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| | (martial arts) wind-and-fire wheel, weapon used in hand-to-hand fighting / (Daoism) a magical pair of wheels on which one can stand to ride at great speed, used by Nezha 哪吒 / (fig.) never-ending treadmill | |
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| | Heaven never bars one's way (idiom); don't despair and you will find a way through. / Never give up hope. / Never say die. | |
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| | "youth freezing", Chinese girls beginning anti-ageing treatments as young as two years old in the hope they will never look old | |
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| | there has never been; has never had / (before a verb) has never | |
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| | to moisten one's lips / to sip (wine, tea etc) / esp. used with negatives: never touch a drop of the stuff | |
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| | Never forget national humiliation, refers to Mukden railway incident of 18th September 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变 and subsequent Japanese annexation of Manchuria | |
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| | lit. the trees long for peace but the wind will never cease (idiom) / fig. the world changes, whether you want it or not | |
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| | One is never too old to learn. (idiom) | |
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| | never put off until tomorrow what you can do today (idiom) | |
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| | wealth never survives three generations (idiom) | |
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| | never to touch a drop of alcohol | |
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| | unprecedented / never seen before | |
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| | best not to mention it / drop it / never mind / let's not talk about it | |
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| | there has never been and never will be another person like this (idiom) / never done before and unlikely to be matched in the future / peerless | |
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| | nothing sadder than a withered heart (idiom attributed to Confucius by Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子) / no greater sorrow than a heart that never rejoices / the worst sorrow is not as bad as an uncaring heart / nothing is more wretched than apathy | |
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| | meandering and circuitous (idiom); to go around in circles and never get anywhere | |
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| | never before in the whole of history (idiom) / unprecedented | |
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| | lit. one's youth will never return / to make the most of one's opportunities (idiom) | |
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| | lit. a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying) / fig. even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood | |
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| | (lit.) so exhausted (by difficulties in a relationship) that one feels one could never fall in love again (Internet slang) / disenchanted with sth | |
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| | a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm | |
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| | to stick to sth stubbornly / never let go | |
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| | unimportant / not serious / it doesn't matter / never mind | |
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| | unfailing / never weakening / enduring / unstoppable | |
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| | a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom) | |
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| | lit. never taking a short-cut (idiom); fig. upright and honest | |
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| | Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it. (idiom) | |
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| | it's a small world / only mountains never meet | |
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| | He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience. | |
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| | never been in a romantic relationship | |
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| | one who tries never to offend anybody | |
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| | he who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night; you can rest with a clear conscience | |
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| | (literary) to never have a deficiency; to never be lacking | |
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| | high merit that one can never repay (idiom); invaluable achievements | |
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| | coercion will never convince (idiom) | |
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| | have never / has never | |
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| | one who is not prepared to risk his child will never catch the wolf (proverb) / (fig.) one who is unwilling to take risks will not achieve great things | |
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| | never before in the whole of history (idiom) / unprecedented / also written 曠古未有|旷古未有 | |
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| | is not / has never been / never occurring / unprecedented | |
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| | a "screw that never rusts" — sb who is a loyal, dependable, humble contributor who quietly holds everything together and never fails in their duty, like Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋, to whom the metaphor is attributed | |
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| | (in such circumstances) there will be no peace / one can never breathe easy | |
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| | it's not important / it's nothing / never mind / to have nothing to do / to be free / to be all right (out of danger or trouble) | |
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| | never put off until tomorrow what you can do today (idiom) | |
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| | a centipede dies but never falls down / old institutions die hard | |
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| | trouble is never far away (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) to have never met / to be complete strangers | |
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| | avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied | |
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| | avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied | |
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| | fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom); constant fighting across the country / never-ending struggle | |
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| | (idiom) to live forever and never grow old | |
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