| | bad / spoiled / broken / to break down / (suffix) to the utmost | HSK 1 |
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| | to break / to snap / to cut off / to give up or abstain from sth / to judge / (usu. used in the negative) absolutely / definitely / decidedly | HSK 3 |
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| | destruction / damage / to wreck / to break / to destroy | HSK 3 |
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| | to cut short / to break off / to discontinue / to interrupt | HSK 5 |
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| | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | HSK 3 |
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| | to resolve / to decompose / to break down | HSK 5 |
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| | to throw down / to fall / to drop and break | HSK 5 |
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| | to split up / to divide / to break up / fission / schism | HSK 6 |
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| | to break; to smash | HSK 3 |
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| | 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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| | to part company / to split up / to break up | HSK 4 |
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| | to divide (into) / to split a bonus / to break into / tenths / percentage allotment | HSK 5 |
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| | to break / to fracture / to snap / to suffer loss / to bend / to twist / to turn / to change direction / convinced / to convert into (currency) / discount / rebate / tenth (in price) / classifier for theatrical scenes / to fold / accounts book | HSK 4 |
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| | Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei 魏 as villains | |
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| | to interrupt / to break off / to break (a bone) | HSK 6 |
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| | to break new ground (for agriculture) / to open up (a new seam) / to develop (border regions) / fig. to open up (new horizons) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to break out / to erupt / to explode / to burst out | HSK 6 |
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| | to suffer a fracture / (of a bone) to break / fracture | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to break away from / to cast off (old ideas etc) / to get rid of / to break away (from) / to break out (of) / to free oneself from / to extricate oneself | HSK 4 |
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| | illegal / to break the law | HSK 5 |
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| | to separate oneself from / to break away from / diastasis (medicine) / abscission / abjunction (botany) | HSK 5 |
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| | to flare up; to break out | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to scatter / to break up (a meeting etc) / to disperse / to disseminate / to dispel / (coll.) to sack | HSK 4 |
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| | (transitive or intransitive) to break into pieces; to shatter; to crumble / broken; fragmentary; scattered / garrulous | HSK 5 |
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| | to break through / to make a breakthrough / to surmount (an obstacle) / (sports) to break through the opponent's defense | HSK 5 |
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| | to rush / to charge / to dash / to break through / to temper oneself (through battling hardships) | HSK 5 |
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| | to rest / to take a break / to stop / to halt / (dialect) to sleep / a moment / a short while | HSK 5 |
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| | to halt / to break off / pause (in speech) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to investigate (as detective) / to solve (crime) / to uncover (a plot) / to sniff out / to break in and analyze / detective work / to scout | |
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| | lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom) / fig. to overcome all obstacles on the way / to break through hardships / to blaze a new trail | |
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| | to break the rules / an illegality / a foul | HSK 6 |
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| | spring break | |
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| | break-even point | |
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| | to divide / to break up / to split / to separate / to dissolve / to solve / to melt / to remove / to untie / to loosen / to open / to emancipate / to explain / to understand / to know / a solution / a dissection | HSK 6 |
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| | to renovate / to refurbish / to refresh (computer window) / to write a new page (in history) / to break (a record) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to drop anchor / (fig.) (of a car etc) to break down | |
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| | to scatter / to break sth up / to beat (an egg) | |
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| | to break out of prison / to jailbreak (an iOS device etc) | |
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| | (physics) to undergo nuclear fission / (fig.) to break apart, forming smaller units; to fragment | |
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| | to lose one's love / to break up (in a romantic relationship) / to feel jilted | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) (of marriage or business partners) to break up; to separate | |
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| | to split / to crack / to break open / to rend | HSK 6 |
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| | growing as a thicket / overgrown / breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc) | |
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| | to break a promise | |
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| | to break / to sever / to turn off (electric switch) | |
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| | noon break / lunch break / lunchtime nap | |
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| | to cease / to suspend / to break off / to stop / to discontinue | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) to make a clean break with; to have nothing more to do with | |
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| | to break a promise / to violate an agreement / to default (on a loan or contract) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to bring to a conclusion / to settle (a dispute) / to do away with (oneself) / to break off (a relationship) / resolution (of a problem) | |
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| | to break off relations / to break with sb | |
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| | continually / without a break / ceaselessly | |
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| | (onom.) breaking or snapping / (coll.) cut it out / stop it / also written 喀嚓 | |
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| | lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat / to burn one's boats | |
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| | to divide into rows / to identify subcategories / to break down into constituent parts / breakdown / disaggregation | |
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| | to cut up / to break up | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to hum and haw (idiom); to mumble as if hiding sth / to speak and break off, then start again / to hold sth back | |
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| | fracture / rupture / to break apart | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to burst out / to appear unexpectedly / to break (media story) | |
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| | to break off or break open sth with one's hands / (fig.) to break off (a relationship) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | burglary / house-breaking | |
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| | fast break / quick attack (ball sports) | |
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| | to miss an appointment; to break an appointment | |
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| | turning point / breaking point | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to break into / to force one's way into / to barge into | |
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| | a problem appears / to break down | HSK 7-9 |
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| | disconnected / interrupted / suspended / a gap / a break | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to break the rules / to violate regulations | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (sports) to have an additional tie-breaking match or period of play; to have a playoff | |
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| | to help / to do a favor / (Shanghainese) Come on! / Give me a break! | |
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| | to break out with acne | |
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| | incorrect break in reading Chinese, dividing text into clauses at wrong point | |
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| | to break the law / to commit a crime | |
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| | (slang) ball-breaking / pain in the ass | |
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| | to break up or prevent monopolies / anti-monopoly; antitrust | |
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| | to break or cut in two / to sever / to cut off / (fig.) to cut off (a conversation, a flow etc) / to interrupt / (math.) to truncate | |
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| | (fig.) to break the ice; to begin to restore amicable relations | |
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| | to divide (into subgroups etc); to break down (into subcategories, subprocesses etc) | |
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| | winner / lucky guy / person who always gets good breaks | |
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| | to hit / to strike / to break / Taiwan pr. [ji2] | |
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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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| | to end abstinence / to resume (drinking) after a break / to break (a taboo) | |
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| | to rest / to relax / to take a break | |
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| | refrain (from doing sth) / (coll.) Come on! / Give me a break! / Save it! | |
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| | to break into a run | |
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| | to break up into parts | |
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| | a dike breaks / fig. to provide facilities (for evil deeds) / to open the floodgates | |
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| | turning point / breaking point / inflexion point (math., a point of a curve at which the curvature changes sign) | |
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| | to break a promise | |
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| | (idiom) Zhu Yun breaks the railing (Zhu Yun was a Han Dynasty official who accused the emperor's tutor of corruption, and when sentenced to death, clung to the palace hall railing so fiercely while demanding justice that he broke it); (fig.) to speak the truth with unwavering courage; to admonish fearlessly / also pr. [zhu1yun2-she2jian4] | |
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| | to collapse / to be worn out / to break down | |
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| | to disperse after a happy time (idiom) / everyone enjoys themselves to the full then party breaks up | |
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| | to charge and break through enemy lines | |
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| | (baseball) breaking ball / (fig.) curveball; unexpected turn of events | |
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| | (computing) to insert a page break / to paginate / pagination / memory paging / tab (GUI element) | |
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| | to sever; to break off | |
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| | to dash / to move forward quickly / to bulge / to protrude / to break through / to rush out / sudden / Taiwan pr. [tu2] | |
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| | (literary) to break off relations with a friend / to sever ties with sb | |
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| | as a lotus flower breaking the surface (idiom); surpassingly beautiful (of young lady's face or old gentleman's calligraphy) | |
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| | the time comes, fortune turns (idiom); to have a lucky break / things change for the better | |
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