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to have spare time / free from work / it's not important / it's nothing / never mind
HSK 1
it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind / think nothing of it; it's my pleasure; you're welcome
HSK 1
always / at all times / never (if used in negative sentence)
HSK 3
unimportant / not serious / it doesn't matter / never mind / it looks all right, but
HSK 4
never
HSK 6
never (in the past) / never did
HSK 6
never / will never
HSK 7-9
never
HSK 7-9
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
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
never
HSK 7-9
ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归, has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin
(slang) never been in a romantic relationship
lit. diligent and never slacking (idiom); continuous concentrated effort / assiduous (in study) / to concentrate
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
(idiom) to live forever and never grow old
(idiom) (when followed by ) 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 ) at all times; always
(reduplicated) whether... or... / never mind / fine (indicating acceptance or resignation)
(of sound) to never stop / to fall incessantly on the ear / to linger on
to enjoy sth and never tire of it (idiom)
unprecedented / for the first time / never before / first ever
eternal glory / will never be forgotten
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)
there can never be too much deception in war / in war nothing is too deceitful / all's fair in war
(idiom) without end; never-ending
avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied
unfailing / never-ending
misfortune does not come singly (idiom) / it never rains but it pours
to have no offspring / never to be seen again; unique
unable to accomplish anything but liable to spoil everything (idiom) / unable to do anything right / never make, but always mar
to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
to change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty / never satisfied with what one has
unprecedented and never to be duplicated / the first and the last / unmatched / unique
Time that has passed will never come back. (idiom)
long time off / time that will never come
soul brothers / friends in spirit who have never met / to commune with
never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite
meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere / going around in circles
avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied
unprecedented / never seen since ancient times
never to be forgotten
to expect (often in negative combination, I never expected...) / to look forward to
(idiom) to have never met sb before; entirely unacquainted
(idiom) blessings never come in pairs
a kite that is lost after its string breaks (metaphor for sb one never hears from anymore)
lit. a door hinge never becomes worm-eaten / constant activity prevents decay (idiom)
(idiom) always at loggerheads; never able to agree with sb; unable to get on with sb
(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
Heaven never bars one's way (idiom); don't despair and you will find a way through. / Never give up hope. / Never say die.
"youth freezing", Chinese girls beginning anti-ageing treatments as young as two years old in the hope they will never look old
there has never been; has never had / (before a verb) has never
to moisten one's lips / to sip (wine, tea etc) / esp. used with negatives: never touch a drop of the stuff
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
lit. the trees long for peace but the wind will never cease (idiom) / fig. the world changes, whether you want it or not
One is never too old to learn. (idiom)
never put off until tomorrow what you can do today (idiom)
wealth never survives three generations (idiom)
never to touch a drop of alcohol
unprecedented / never seen before
best not to mention it / drop it / never mind / let's not talk about it
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
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
meandering and circuitous (idiom); to go around in circles and never get anywhere
never before in the whole of history (idiom) / unprecedented
lit. one's youth will never return / to make the most of one's opportunities (idiom)
lit. a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying) / fig. even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood
(lit.) so exhausted (by difficulties in a relationship) that one feels one could never fall in love again (Internet slang) / disenchanted with sth
a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm
to stick to sth stubbornly / never let go
unimportant / not serious / it doesn't matter / never mind
unfailing / never weakening / enduring / unstoppable
a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)
lit. never taking a short-cut (idiom); fig. upright and honest
Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it. (idiom)
it's a small world / only mountains never meet
He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.
never been in a romantic relationship
one who tries never to offend anybody
he who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night; you can rest with a clear conscience
(literary) to never have a deficiency; to never be lacking
high merit that one can never repay (idiom); invaluable achievements
coercion will never convince (idiom)
have never / has never
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
never before in the whole of history (idiom) / unprecedented / also written 曠古未有|旷古未有
is not / has never been / never occurring / unprecedented
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
(in such circumstances) there will be no peace / one can never breathe easy
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)
never put off until tomorrow what you can do today (idiom)
a centipede dies but never falls down / old institutions die hard
trouble is never far away (idiom)
(idiom) to have never met / to be complete strangers
avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied
avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied
fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom); constant fighting across the country / never-ending struggle
(idiom) to live forever and never grow old


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