| | low / beneath / to lower (one's head) / to let droop / to hang down / to incline | HSK 2 |
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| | to reduce; to lower; to bring down | HSK 4 |
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| | to be lower than | HSK 5 |
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| | low temperature | HSK 6 |
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| | to bow the head / to yield / to give in | HSK 6 |
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| | height; level; (music) pitch / relative superiority / propriety; discretion (usu. in the negative, e.g. 不知高低) / no matter what; just; simply (will not ..., must ... etc) / at long last | HSK 7-9 |
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| | low pitch / quiet (voice) / subdued / low-key / low-profile | HSK 7-9 |
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| | valley / trough (as opposed to peaks) / fig. low point / lowest ebb / nadir of one's fortunes | HSK 7-9 |
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| | low price | HSK 7-9 |
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| | low status / lowly / to lower (one's head) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | blurred (landscape etc) / low (spirits) / in a slump (economy) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to underestimate; to underrate | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (attributive) low-carbon; low-carb (diet) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | alternately soaring and plunging | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to chant softly / to murmur | |
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| | too low | |
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| | low speed | |
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| | low level / rudimentary / vulgar / low / inferior | |
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| | low-end | |
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| | bass | |
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| | low-cut (dress) / plunging (neckline) | |
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| | low altitude | |
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| | to lower / to reduce | |
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| | vulgar / poor taste | |
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| | low pressure / low voltage | |
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| | a low fever (up to 38°C) | |
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| | inefficient / ineffective | |
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| | incapable / incompetent / stupid / mentally deficient | |
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| | to lower (one's voice) | |
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| | (of a member of a specific cohort) lower than average in age | |
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| | mutter | |
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| | new low | |
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| | short / low | |
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| | low-grade / of low worth or rank / poor quality / inferior | |
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| | low-lying | |
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| | lowland | |
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| | inferior quality / substandard / low-grade | |
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| | meager (wages) / humble (social status) / feeble (voice) | |
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| | low-interest | |
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| | low tide / low ebb | |
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| | a low fever (up to 38°C) | |
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| | low consumption (energy, fuel etc) | |
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| | lowly; humble / cheap; inexpensive | |
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| | to have high standards but little ability / to be fastidious but incompetent (idiom) | |
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| | low yield | |
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| | downcast; gloomy / to decline; to get worse | |
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| | in a low voice / softly | |
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| | to belittle / to disparage / to play down / to demean / to degrade / to devalue | |
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| | to droop / to hang low | |
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| | (of weather) overcast; gloomy / (of a voice) low and deep / low-spirited; downcast | |
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| | uneven bars (gymnastics) | |
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| | low and unhurried (voice etc) / low and gently sloping (terrain) | |
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| | low hurdles (track event) | |
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| | cheap / inexpensive / low | |
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| | ups and down / rise and fall | |
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| | servile | |
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| | inferior | |
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| | low fat | |
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| | can't recognize tall or short (idiom); doesn't know what's what | |
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| | low interest | |
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| | to be fawningly submissive (idiom) | |
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| | low cost / inexpensive | |
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| | darkness fell (falls, had fallen etc) | |
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| | low-top (shoes) | |
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| | smartphone addicts | |
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| | low-gluten flour / cake flour / pastry flour / soft flour | |
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| | (music) bass voice | |
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| | low level | |
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| | to act like a snob | |
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| | a lower grade (in a school) (e.g. 1st or 2nd year); the lower division (of a school etc) | |
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| | to sink / to settle | |
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| | man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom) / one should constantly strive to make progress | |
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| | (of a certain group of people, e.g. recreational drug users) to become younger, on average, than before | |
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| | hypoglycemia (medicine) | |
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| | in a whisper / in a low voice (idiom) | |
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| | low-cut neckline | |
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| | low-level (computer) language | |
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| | low-dimensional (math.) | |
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| | low speed | |
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| | hypothermia | |
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| | can't reach the high or accept the low (idiom); not good enough for a high post, but too proud to take a low one | |
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| | hilly (geography) | |
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| | low income | |
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| | docile; submissive | |
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| | lower animal / primitive life-form | |
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| | lit. to fight it out with sb to see who is best (idiom) / fig. to cross swords with / to lock horns | |
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| | mid-to-low-range | |
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| | in a low voice / whispered | |
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| | vulgar style (used of items to be censored) | |
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| | vulgarization | |
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| | subsistence allowance / welfare (abbr. for 城市居民最低生活保障) | |
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| | low fidelity / lo-fi | |
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| | an octave lower (music) | |
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| | low marks / low score | |
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| | low interest loan | |
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| | low dose irradiation | |
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| | (bird species of China) lowland white-eye (Zosterops meyeni) | |
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