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| | day / sky / heaven | HSK 1 |
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| | tomorrow | HSK 1 |
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| | the day before yesterday | HSK 1 |
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| | the day after tomorrow / life after birth (the period in which one develops through experiences, contrasted with 先天) / acquired (not innate or congenital) / a posteriori | HSK 1 |
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| | clear sky / sunny day | HSK 2 |
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| | half of the day / a long time / quite a while / midair / CL: 個|个 | HSK 1 |
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| | daytime / during the day / day / CL: 個|个 | HSK 1 |
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| | Sunday | HSK 1 |
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| | yesterday | HSK 1 |
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| | cloudy day; overcast sky | HSK 2 |
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| | space flight | HSK 7-9 |
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| | all day long / whole day | HSK 3 |
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| | planning is with man, accomplishing with heaven (idiom); Man proposes but God disposes. | |
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| | lit. when a person attains enlightenment and immortality, even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. when somebody attains a position of power and influence, their relatives and friends also benefit | |
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| | blue sky | HSK 6 |
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| | the same day | HSK 6 |
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| | lit. to view the sky from the bottom of a well (idiom); ignorant and narrow-minded | |
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| | lit. to hide the sky with one hand / to hide the truth from the masses | |
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| | embryonic period (contrasted with 後天|后天) / inborn; innate; natural | HSK 7-9 |
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| | rainy day / rainy weather | |
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| | lit. (when a person attains enlightenment and immortality), even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. (when somebody attains a position of power and influence), their relatives and friends also benefit / (2nd half of the saying 一人得道, 雞犬升天|一人得道, 鸡犬升天) | |
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| | in full swing (idiom) / (in a) frenzy / buzzing with activity | |
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| | reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success | |
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| | overwhelming stench (idiom) | |
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| | several days | |
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| | half the sky / women of the new society / womenfolk | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Woman can hold up half the sky / fig. nowadays, women have an equal part to play in society | |
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| | every day | |
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| | Heaven; Providence; God / the sky above / to fly skywards / (euphemism) to die; to pass away / the previous day (or days) | |
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| | culmination (astronomy) | |
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| | afternoon | |
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| | (coll.) all day long / all the time | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Wu Zetian (624-705), Tang empress, reigned 690-705 | |
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| | in the wider world there are people more talented than oneself (idiom) | |
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| | upside down / upturned | |
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| | Food is the God of the people. (idiom); People view food as the primary need. / Food first, ethical niceties second | |
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| | (of a tree etc) to reach up to the sky | |
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| | whole sky | |
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| | another day / some other time / to find another day (for appointment etc) / to take a rain check | |
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| | to face upwards / to look up to the sky | |
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| | the twenty seven days after the Winter Solstice, reputed to be the coldest days of the year | |
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| | a few days ago / a few days before / the past few days / the previous few days | |
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| | Bao Qingtian, fictional nickname of Bao Zheng 包拯 (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty | |
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| | man can conquer nature (idiom); human wisdom can prevail over nature | |
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| | morning / a.m. / first half of the day | |
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| | (idiom) to have committed heinous crimes | |
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| | to whine on for days (idiom) / to endlessly grumble complaints / incessant whining | |
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| | supremely honorable and righteous | |
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| | (Buddhism) to go to the Western Paradise / (fig.) to die | |
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| | (coll.) to get one's just deserts / to serve sb right / to get one's share of (good or bad things) / every dog has its day | |
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| | the day before (an event) | |
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| | daily (law) / per diem | |
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| | the dark / night | |
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| | God / Heavens | |
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| | human life is beyond value (idiom) | |
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| | two entirely different worlds; two contrasting realities | |
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| | (idiom) (of enemies) cannot live under the same sky; absolutely irreconcilable | |
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| | the ninth heaven; the highest of the heavens | |
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| | Chaotian district of Guangyuan city 廣元市|广元市, Sichuan | |
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| | to have an audience with the Emperor / to be presented at court / to look skyward / to look up | |
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| | this day | |
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| | broad daylight | |
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| | to chat / idle gossip | |
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| | to chat; to gossip | |
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| | (idiom) the evil is overwhelming | |
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| | (idiom) to stink to high heaven | |
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| | lit. to fill the whole sky / everywhere / as far as the eye can see | |
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| | to chat | |
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| | bright sunny day; blazing hot day | |
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| | to reverse a desperate situation | |
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| | cold weather / cold season | |
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| | three days ago | |
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| | (idiom) however good sth is, there is always sth better / in the wider world there are people more talented than oneself | |
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| | nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year | |
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| | (coll.) every day | |
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| | final day | |
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| | on that day | |
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| | cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war | |
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| | lit. to present oneself confidently to the emperor, without makeup (as did the sister of Yang Guifei 楊貴妃|杨贵妃) (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) to show one's natural features, without makeup / to present oneself just as one is, without artifice | |
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| | Sunday | |
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| | outdoors / al fresco / in the open | HSK 7-9 |
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| | skyscraping / towering into the sky | |
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| | three days from now | |
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| | place of charm and beauty / scenery of exceptional charm / completely different world | |
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| | Sunday | |
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| | to be emperor by the grace of heaven; to have the mandate of heaven | |
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| | most of the day | |
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| | morning | |
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| | Xingtian, headless giant hero of Chinese mythology decapitated by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝 | |
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| | overpowering (of a stench) | |
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| | August Heaven; Heaven as supreme deity (often paired with 后土, the Earth Deity) | |
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| | Zhang Wentian (1900-1976), CCP party leader and theorist | |
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