| | few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom | HSK 1 |
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| | how much?; how many? / (phone number, student ID etc) what number? | HSK 1 |
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| | small number / few / minority | HSK 2 |
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| | adolescent / youth / teenager | HSK 2 |
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| | early youth / youngster / (literary) youth; young man | HSK 2 |
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| | many / a lot / not few | HSK 2 |
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| | lack / shortage of / shortfall / to be short (of) / to lack | HSK 3 |
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| | at least / (to say the) least | HSK 3 |
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| | to lessen; to decrease; to reduce; to lower | HSK 4 |
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| | child | HSK 6 |
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| | absolutely necessary / indispensable / essential | HSK 7-9 |
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| | rare; seldom seen / (formal) it's a rare pleasure to see you | HSK 7-9 |
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| | girl / young lady | HSK 7-9 |
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| | a smidgen / a little bit / a few | HSK 7-9 |
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| | rare / infrequent | HSK 7-9 |
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| | cannot do without / to be unavoidable / are bound to be many | HSK 7-9 |
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| | sparse / rare | HSK 7-9 |
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| | more or less | HSK 7-9 |
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| | extremely few / a small minority | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Shaolin Temple, Buddhist monastery famous for its kung fu monks | HSK 7-9 |
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| | young | |
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| | number; amount / somewhat | |
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| | at least / minimum / lowest (amount) / minimal | |
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| | son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific) | |
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| | young / junior | |
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| | the Shaolin monastery and martial arts school | |
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| | major general / rear admiral / air vice marshal | |
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| | young married woman | |
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| | to give short weight | |
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| | a little; a few | |
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| | Minor Treasurer in imperial China, one of the Nine Ministers 九卿 | |
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| | men, women, young and old; all kinds of people; people of all ages | |
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| | to be short of the full amount | |
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| | young thug / malicious young ruffian | |
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| | second lieutenant (army rank) | |
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| | refrain (from doing sth) / (coll.) Come on! / Give me a break! / Save it! | |
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| | junior ranking officer in Chinese army / major / lieutenant commander | |
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| | too few / insufficient | |
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| | lit. everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom) / fig. inauspicious; everything points to disaster | |
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| | using the few to defeat the many (idiom); to win from a position of weakness | |
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| | cannot be avoided / cannot do without | |
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| | (idiom) many little things add up to sth great; many little drops make an ocean | |
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| | the old and the young | |
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| | (idiom) young and inexperienced; wet behind the ears | |
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| | short of food and clothing / destitute | |
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| | lit. a person who has seen little of the world will be be astonished by certain things (idiom) / fig. to be taken aback by sth because of one's lack of sophistication; naive; unworldy | |
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| | in a short while / presently | |
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| | lit. many monks and not much gruel (idiom) / fig. not enough to go around / demand exceeds supply | |
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| | old but young at heart | |
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| | keep calm, don't get excited / don't be impatient | |
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| | accomplished though young / lacking youthful vigor | |
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| | cheating neither old nor young / treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike. | |
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| | brainless / stupid | |
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| | very little / very few | |
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| | a short while / soon | |
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| | very few / rarely | |
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| | to some extent / more or less | |
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| | it is better to avoid unnecessary trouble (idiom) / the less complications the better | |
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| | not suitable for children | |
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| | if you are lazy in your prime, you'll be sorry in your old age | |
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| | a flower may blossom again, but a person cannot get young again (proverb) | |
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| | no sign of human habitation (idiom); desolate | |
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| | (idiom) young and inexperienced; unsophisticated | |
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| | (after a sum has been paid in advance) to refund (in case of overpayment) or be reimbursed (in case of underpayment) | |
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| | indispensable; essential | |
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| | Mind your own business! / Don't interfere! | |
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| | boss's son / young master; young boss | |
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| | indispensable | |
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| | lesser yang gallbladder meridian of the leg (one of the 12 principal meridians of TCM) | |
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| | Young Pioneers of China (primary school league, a preparation for Communist Youth League) / abbr. to 少先隊｜少先队 | |
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| | (literary) a little while | |
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| | somewhat / more or less | |
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| | young criminal / juvenile delinquent | |
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| | boys and girls / teenagers | |
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| | a small proportion of / Taiwan pr. [shao3bu4fen4] | |
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| | (idiom) unable to plan; inept at strategy | |
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| | a thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet (idiom) / when you're with close friends, you can let your hair down | |
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| | lots of money, less work, and close to home / ideal job | |
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| | young lady of the house / wife of the young master | |
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| | declining birthrate (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 少子化 "shoushika") | |
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| | children's center / children's club | |
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| | husband and wife in youth, companions in old age | |
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| | ethnic minority | |
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| | Few words are best. / Brevity is the soul of wit. | |
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| | soon / a short while / a narrow gap / slightly better (state of health) | |
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| | suitable for young and old | |
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| | hardly any better / just as bad | |
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| | Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | talk nicely and avoid disputes / give compliments and not remarks | |
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| | peerless / second to none (idiom) | |
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| | very few; very little | |
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| | (coll.) (usually used in the negative) (can't) hurt (to do sth) / (won't) hurt (to do sth) | |
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| | young guard / young and vigorous group with new ideas / new wave | |
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| | Jungfrau, peak in Switzerland | |
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