| | have plenty of / there's no lack of | HSK 3 |
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| | (coll.) exactly!; indeed; that's for sure | HSK 7-9 |
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| | when?; at what time? | |
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| | What's up?; Is something the matter? / (coll.) (used in rhetorical questions of the form 關｜关 + {person} + 什麼事｜什么事 "what business is it of {person}'s?; what's it to {person}?") | |
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| | what has (he) got up (his) sleeve? / what's going on? | |
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| | Why is that?; How come? | |
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| | firm / solid / reliable / real / practical | |
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| | sometimes / at times | |
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| | if it were not for / but for | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be unable to say or tell / to not be worth mentioning | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America | |
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| | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom / wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual | |
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| | fragrant wine fears no dark alley (idiom) / quality goods need no advertising | |
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| | executioner / headsman / slaughterer / fig. indiscriminate murderer | |
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| | unable to get anything to eat / to miss a meal | HSK 7-9 |
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| | World food program (United Nations aid agency) | |
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| | Minecraft (video game) | |
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| | spilt water / (fig.) sth that can not be retrieved / spilt milk | |
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| | not able to keep up with | HSK 7-9 |
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| | for example; for instance | |
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| | it takes all sorts (to make a world) (idiom) | |
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| | to wade across the river, feeling for footholds as one goes (idiom) / to advance cautiously, step by step / to feel one's way forward | |
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| | with one's hands clasped behind one's back | |
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| | really good / excellent | |
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| | to be good enough to be regarded as; to meet the standard expected of | |
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| | can be counted or regarded as / to be able to tell or answer / to deserve mention | |
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| | top student | |
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| | (saying) it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter; (fig.) to be an armchair expert; to blabber on | |
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| | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom / wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual | |
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| | to be out of the question | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others. | |
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| | for the sake of / for the purpose of | |
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| | older female / woman of mature years (Japanese loanword) | |
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| | (of a title, degree etc) illegitimately conferred | |
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| | sb who crafts and delivers witty, humorous or satirical short stories, jokes or punchlines; a wit; a humorist | |
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| | to hold hands | |
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| | sth bad happened | |
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| | orangeade / orange squash / CL: 瓶, 杯, 罐, 盒 | |
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| | lit. to drive a duck onto a perch (idiom) / fig. to push sb to do sth way beyond their ability | |
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| | to be considered as outstanding or special / to be reckoned with / notable | |
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| | lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom) / fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted | |
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| | lilac (color) | |
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| | thick / concentrated | |
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| | cannot attend to or manage | HSK 7-9 |
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| | compasses, set square and straight line marker (idiom); fig. established standard / norms / criteria | |
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| | foolish / stupid | |
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| | tick (tock) | |
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| | mama-san, middle-aged woman who runs a brothel, bar etc (loanword from Japanese); madam | |
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| | windshield washer fluid | |
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| | needed / to come in useful | |
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| | past tense | |
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| | to pick on sth incessantly (idiom) / to criticize right and left | |
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| | (Tw) Sierra Leone | |
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| | to put it simply; simply put | |
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| | grapevine | |
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| | to keep on saying (idiom); to repeat over and over again | |
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| | to be madly in love | |
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| | sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them | |
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| | to cry one's heart out | |
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| | worthwhile (often in rhetorical questions, implying not worthwhile) | |
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| | garnet (red gemstone Mg3Al2Si3O12) | |
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| | sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them | |
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| | Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others. | |
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| | (onom.) clunk | |
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| | If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle. / cf idiom 磨杵成針｜磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task / to study diligently | |
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| | to be unable to intervene | |
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| | shredded daikon pie | |
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| | to have the final say / to be the one in charge | |
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| | lit. to lose Jingzhou due to carelessness (idiom) / fig. to suffer a major setback due to negligence | |
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| | carotene | |
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| | siliceous sand (geology) | |
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| | lit. whatever mountain one is on, one should sing its songs (idiom) / fig. when in Rome, do as the Romans do | |
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| | fuzzy mathematics | |
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| | Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others. | |
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| | Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others. | |
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| | on the table / fig. everything open and above board | |
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| | there's no shortage / there are plenty | |
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| | to forget past pains once the wound has healed (idiom) | |
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| | lit. to climb all over sb / fig. to take advantage of sb's weakness | |
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| | infant's part in opera, usually played by child actor | |
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| | pin tumbler lock / spring lock | |
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| | pomegranate tree | |
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| | lit. if you were eating warm shit, it'd be stone cold by the time you finished it (saying) / fig. (of a person) too slow; can't keep up | |
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| | empty-handed | |
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| | can be counted as | |
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| | neighbors / the whole neighborhood | |
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| | Chinese sumac (Rhus chinensis) | |
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| | Nianzishan, a district of Qiqihar City 齊齊哈爾市｜齐齐哈尔市, Heilongjiang | |
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| | lit. to see whether it's a mule or a horse, take it out for a walk (idiom) / fig. the proof of the pudding is in the eating / to show what one is made of | |
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| | whistling sound | |
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