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| | in the future / future / the future / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | about to; on the point of; soon | HSK 4 |
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| | will / shall / to use / to take / to checkmate / just a short while ago / (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | HSK 5 |
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| | will / shall / to be going to | HSK 5 |
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| | general / high-ranking military officer / to check or checkmate / fig. to embarrass / to challenge / to put sb on the spot | HSK 6 |
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| | inevitably | HSK 6 |
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| | (bound form) a general / (literary) to command; to lead / (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) | |
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| | to desire / to invite / to request | |
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| | (common place name) | |
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| | lieutenant general; vice admiral; air marshal | |
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| | (in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age / (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard / (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc) | |
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| | general / military leader / fierce man | |
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| | general / admiral / air chief marshal | |
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| | a general or admiral | |
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| | famous general / (sports) renowned athlete | |
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| | major general / rear admiral / air vice marshal | |
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| | fierce general / valiant military leader / fig. brave individual | |
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| | officers and soldiers | |
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| | important general / generalissimo | |
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| | high-ranking military officer | |
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| | to accept (a bit reluctantly) / to put up with | |
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| | commander-in-chief (military) / star player (sports) / key figure (in an organization) | |
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| | trusted lieutenant | |
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| | lit. old general / commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess / fig. old-timer / veteran | |
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| | deputy general | |
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| | ready to start on sth / about to act | |
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| | to beat sb at their own game (idiom) | |
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| | to appoint a general (in theater) / fig. to appoint sb for a task | |
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| | to play mahjong | |
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| | to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success) (idiom) (abbr. for 過五關斬六將|过五关斩六将) | |
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| | to put oneself in sb else's shoes (idiom) | |
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| | deputy general | |
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| | (idiom) one's defeated opponent | |
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| | indirect, psychological method of getting sb to do as one wishes (e.g. questioning whether they are up to the task) | |
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| | valiant general | |
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| | great mansion on the verge of collapse (idiom); hopeless situation | |
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| | mahjong tile | |
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| | Yang Saga, a popular fiction from the Northern Song, depicting the heroic Yang family 楊業|杨业 of warriors | |
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| | (archaic) adept and valiant military general / skilled athlete; top player / abbr. for 運動健將|运动健将 | |
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| | lit. if it's wrong, it's wrong (idiom); to make the best after a mistake / to accept an error and adapt to it / to muddle through | |
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| | (old) (military) a command / an order | |
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| | capable person | |
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| | to move an army and send a general (idiom); to deploy an army / to send a team on a task | |
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| | commander-in-chief, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess | |
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| | celestial troops and generals (idiom) / fig. superior forces | |
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| | to approach one's coffin (idiom); with one foot in the grave | |
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| | talented field commander (military) | |
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| | general | |
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| | to atone for one's crimes by meritorious acts | |
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| | ruined army, defeated general (idiom); scattered remnants | |
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| | brigadier general; commodore | |
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| | valiant general | |
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| | champion-level athlete (title awarded by the General Administration of Sport of China based on performance in international and national competitions) | |
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| | (literary) to rest / to recuperate | |
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| | nickname of Han dynasty general Li Guang 李廣|李广 | |
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| | veteran general | |
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| | Ba Jia Jiang, the eight generals that guard the godly realm in Taiwanese folklore, represented by troupes of dancers in temple processions / (slang) lowlife gangster or young hoodlum, often written as "8+9", [ba1 jia1 jiu3] | |
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| | to make up for one's faults by doing good deeds (idiom) | |
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| | lit. to cross five passes and slay six generals (idiom) / fig. to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success) | |
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| | Jiangle, a county in Sanming City 三明市, Fujian | |
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| | to bite the hand that feeds one (idiom) | |
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| | to spur sb into action by making negative remarks | |
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| | shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea) / useless troops (idiom) | |
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| | potbelly | |
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| | there are no poor soldiers under a good general (idiom) | |
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| | Jiangle, a county in Sanming City 三明市, Fujian | |
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| | strategic experts and powerful generals (idiom) | |
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| | female general / (fig.) woman who is a leading figure in her area of expertise | |
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| | strategic experts and powerful generals (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) to compensate for lack of ability with hard work | |
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| | to checkmate (in chess) / to be about to die | |
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| | lit. General Iron is guarding the door (idiom) / fig. the door is padlocked — nobody inside | |
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| | lit. to dispatch a general is not as effective as to excite a general / fig. inciting people to action is more effective than dispatching orders | |
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| | to ask for assistance | |
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| | the enemy general | |
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| | assistance that one gets from another | |
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| | official gatekeeper / goalkeeper (soccer, hockey etc) | |
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| | auxiliary verb introducing future action: may (be able to) / will (cause) / should (enable) / going to | |
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| | imminent | |
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| | to checkmate (in chess) | |
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| | driver (of a taxi etc) (loanword from Japanese) (Tw) | |
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| | counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation | |
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| | (Tw) (sports) foreign player / import | |
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| | Liu Bei's five great generals in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, namely: Guan Yu 關羽|关羽, Zhang Fei 張飛|张飞, Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云, Ma Chao 馬超|马超, Huang Zhong 黃忠|黄忠 | |
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| | words of a man on his deathbed always come from the heart (proverb) | |
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| | Easy to raise an army of one thousand, but hard to find a good general. (idiom) | |
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| | Japanese chess (shōgi) | |
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| | trump (suit of cards) | |
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| | lit. one general, one order (idiom) / fig. every boss has their own rules / everyone has their own way of doing things | |
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| | top general / commander-in-chief | |
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| | counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation | |
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| | to observe the present to study the past | |
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| | to be about to arrive / to be around the corner | |
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| | beer belly (complimentary) | |
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| | to donate generously (idiom) | |
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| | will perhaps / may (in the future) | |
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