| | broken / damaged / worn out / lousy / rotten / to break, split or cleave / to get rid of / to destroy / to break with / to defeat / to capture (a city etc) / to expose the truth of | HSK 3 |
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| | texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up | HSK 6 |
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| | to speak the truth / truth to tell / frankly | HSK 6 |
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| | to awaken / to come to realize / awakened to the truth / the truth dawns upon one / scales fall from the eyes / to become aware | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to conceal / to hide (a taboo subject) / to cover up the truth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to seek truth from facts (idiom) / fig. to be practical and realistic | HSK 7-9 |
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| | real situation / the truth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to see what is right and act courageously (idiom, from Analects); to stand up bravely for the truth / acting heroically in a just cause | HSK 7-9 |
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| | truth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to call into question / to question (truth or validity) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. as the water recedes, the rocks appear (idiom) / fig. the truth comes to light | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to come to oneself / to come to realize / to come to see the truth / to wake up to reality | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to tell the truth / to tell it as it is | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to tell the truth / honestly / in fact | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be honest / to tell the truth / to be frank | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be revealed / to come out (of the truth) / chalk (for whitening walls) / (old) wine cup / (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Comics character Baymax, whose Chinese name is 大白) | |
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| | to cover / to mask / to cover up or conceal (the truth etc) | |
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| | to seek the truth | |
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| | to examine / truth (Buddhism) | |
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| | sensible / reasonable / an obvious reason, truth or fact / to understand the reason or reasoning | |
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| | the actual situation; the truth | |
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| | to spread falsehoods / to increasingly distort the truth / to pile errors on top of errors (idiom) | |
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| | Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth | |
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| | Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie / (fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth / unsolvable case | |
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| | self-evident truth / (math.) axiom | |
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| | to comprehend the truth; to become enlightened | |
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| | lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong | |
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| | a flash of realization / the truth in a flash / a moment of enlightenment (usually Buddhist) | |
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| | the whole truth is revealed (idiom); everything becomes clear | |
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| | to own up to a fault / to admit the truth / to acknowledge a debt | |
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| | indisputable statement / unalterable truth | |
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| | original identity fully revealed (idiom); fig. to unmask and expose the whole truth | |
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| | lit. to hide the sky with one hand / to hide the truth from the masses | |
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| | to wake up to reality / to come to oneself / to realize / to see the truth | |
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| | lit. paper can't wrap fire; fig. the truth will out | |
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| | to hide the head and show the tail (idiom); to give a partial account / half-truths | |
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| | refined cream cheese / fig. crème de la crème / nirvana / Buddha nature / Buddhist truth / broth / flawless personal character | |
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| | words of truth / moral expressed in words / written article explaining a moral | |
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| | lit. public opinion is powerful enough to melt metal (idiom) / fig. public clamor can obscure the actual truth / mass spreading of rumors can confuse right and wrong | |
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| | unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths) | |
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| | to realize suddenly / to wake up to the truth / to suddenly awake from sleep | |
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| | to abandon one's body in the search for Buddha's truth (idiom) | |
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| | perfectly sound proposition / unalterable truth / irrefutable argument | |
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| | a wrong repeated becomes right (idiom); a lie or an error passed on for a long time may be taken for the truth | |
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| | (idiom) to talk in a roundabout way to cover up the truth / evasive | |
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| | lit. the eye cannot see the eyelashes (idiom); fig. unable to see one's own faults / to lack self-awareness / truths too close to home | |
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| | to cover up the truth on all sides (idiom) | |
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| | in all honesty / truth to tell | |
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| | truth, goodness and beauty | |
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| | Actual practice is the sole criterion for judging truth (item from Deng Xiaoping theory, from 1978) | |
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| | truth to tell / to be quite honest... | |
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| | (variant of 真相) the truth about sth; the actual facts | |
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| | Luduan, mythical Chinese beast able to detect the truth | |
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| | Aum Shinrikyo (or Supreme Truth), the Japanese death cult responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway | |
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| | the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), covered by the acronym 苦集滅道|苦集灭道: all life is suffering 苦, the cause of suffering is desire 集, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭, the way 道 to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道 | |
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| | the truth / reality | |
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| | The Moment of Truth (TV show) / Truth or Dare (game) | |
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| | major principle / general truth / sermon (reproof) / bombastic talk | |
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| | truth table | |
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| | to take a deer and call it a horse (idiom); deliberate inversion of the truth | |
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| | real face fully revealed (idiom); fig. to unmask and expose the whole truth | |
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| | to report according to the facts / to tell the truth / to tell it like it is | |
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| | Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth | |
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| | Ministry of Truth, a fictional ministry from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four | |
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| | the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦, the cause of suffering is desire 集, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭, the way 道 to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道 / also called 四諦|四谛 | |
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| | speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths / home truths (that one does not want to hear) | |
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| | If sb has grasped the truth before you, take him as your teacher (Tang dynasty essayist Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈). / We should learn from one who knows the way. | |
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| | after wine, spit out the truth / in vino veritas | |
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| | to reveal the truth / to spill the beans | |
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| | one's body as wood and earth / undecorated / unvarnished (truth) | |
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| | the unvarnished truth is better than a cunning ruse (idiom) / honesty is the best policy | |
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