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clever (child) / smart / lovable / cute
HSK 7-9
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  *乖* | 乖* | *乖
(of a child) obedient, well-behaved / clever / shrewd / alert / perverse / contrary to reason / irregular / abnormal
HSK 7-9
(of a child) well-behaved / obediently / (term of endearment for a child) darling / sweetie
goodness gracious! / oh my lord!
to show off one's cleverness / (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by
recalcitrant / unreasonable / peevish
perverse (behavior) / disagreeable (character)
peculiar / eccentric
perceptive / alert / clever / shrewd
ridiculous / abnormal
bad times, adverse fate (idiom)
(coll.) to speak in a clever and lovable way
stubborn / contrary / disobedient
well-behaved girl; good girl
to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom) / once bitten, twice shy
obedient (colloquial)
to curry favor by showing obeisance (idiom)
good little boy (or girl)
to part / to separate / to deviate
stubborn / contrary / disobedient
to learn one's lesson the hard way
to have benefited from sth but pretend otherwise / to claim to be hard done by, even though one has benefited
see 乖戾
to behave ingratiatingly


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