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accident / CL: 樁|桩, ,
HSK 3
deliberately; on purpose
HSK 2
home / homeland / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
narrative; story; tale
HSK 2
familiarity at first sight
the Forbidden City / the Imperial Palace in Beijing / same as 故宮|故宫
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *故* | 故* | *故
happening / instance / reason / cause / intentional / former / old / friend / therefore / hence / (of people) to die, dead
HSK 7-9
an unforeseen event / accident / misfortune
malfunction / breakdown / defect / shortcoming / fault / failure / impediment / error / bug (in software)
HSK 6
worldly wisdom / the ways of the world / to know how to get on in the world
therefore
to discard the old and introduce the new (idiom); to innovate
reason / cause
HSK 6
mythical story; myth
classical story or quote from the literature / the story behind sth
to die / to pass away
without cause or reason
HSK 7-9
a pile of old books
single point of failure
Palace Museum, in the Forbidden City, Beijing / National Palace Museum, Taipei
somehow
the late / deceased
folk story / folktale
(idiom) to ask a question, already knowing the answer
sophisticated / worldly-wise
HSK 7-9
to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects) / to recall the past to understand the future
unworldly / unsophisticated
former acquaintance / old friend
old site / site of sth (palace, ancient state etc) that no longer exists
lit. to breathe out stale air and breathe in fresh (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); fig. to get rid of the old and bring in the new
native country; one's homeland
what for? / what's the reason?
fairy tale
anecdote; tales (esp. about a historical figure)
... hence the name (used at the end of a sentence)
usual trick / old tactics
old classics / old customs / cause
the Forbidden City / abbr. for 故宮博物院|故宫博物院
former imperial palace
one's hometown
deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated
stuck in the old ways (idiom); refusing to acknowledge new ideas / stagnating and conservative
to find an excuse
old practice
old friend / the deceased
fault resolution / trouble clearing
Mukden Palace, aka Shenyang Imperial Palace, the main imperial palace during the early years of the Qing dynasty (1625-1644), a secondary palace in subsequent years, now a museum
ghost story
accident causing injury or death
a shipwreck / a sinking
to have no basis in fact (idiom)
that's why it is called...
accident
to troubleshoot / to check components individually for problems / troubleshooting
to die
(idiom) for no reason whatever; inexplicably
to repeat an old stratagem / up to one's old tricks
former residence
a close friend over many years
home town; native place
fellow countryman (from the same village) / the folks back home
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集
artificial show of seriousness / to pretend to be solemn
former capital / ancient capital
deliberate violation (idiom); intentional crime
fictional film / feature film
once familiar places / former haunts
old tomb
descended from an old family
old estate / former empire / former occupation
In order to capture, one must let loose. / to loosen the reins only to grasp them better
(idiom) to have some sort of connection (personal or familial etc)
industrial accident / work-related injury
technical breakdown / malfunction
therefore / so / consequently
to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects) / to recall the past to understand the future
old teaching (e.g. religious instruction)
to die / death
(idiom) no cause or reason; completely uncalled for
to dig into piles of outdated writings (idiom); to study old books and papers
to revert to old ways
do not neglect old friends
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang 張戎|张戎 and Jon Halliday
to die of an illness
the ways of the world
old friends and relatives
historical or literary anecdote that gives rise to a saying
(idiom) to use claims to kinship or friendship to climb socially
one's old self / one's original self / what one has always been
(idiom) back to where we were; absolutely no improvement; things haven't changed at all
country with an ancient history
old and respected family / family whose members have been officials from generation to generation
to return home with honor
to be set in one's ways (idiom)
lit. neither a relative nor a friend (idiom) / fig. unrelated to one another in any way
old friends
for some reason
to play the profound thinker

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