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to pat / to clap / to slap / to swat / to take (a photo) / to shoot (a film) / racket (sports) / beat (music)
HSK 3
to take a picture
HSK 4
to take (a picture); to shoot (a film)
HSK 5
racket
HSK 6
to auction / auction sale / to sell at a reduced price
HSK 7-9
clapper-board / auctioneer's hammer / to beat time with clappers
HSK 7-9
to shoot a movie
HSK 7-9
(music) a half-beat behind / (fig.) rather slow (in performing a task, comprehending etc)
to take a picture of a person without permission or without their knowledge
to clap one's hands
judicial auction; to sell by judicial auction
Polaroid (Tw)
(dialect) to date sb
to make a photographic reproduction of an image or document etc; a reproduction / to remake a movie or TV series; a remake / to adapt (a novel etc) as a movie; an adaptation
beat (music) / meter
to shoot a film / to have a medical imaging procedure
to begin shooting (a movie, a scene of a movie etc) / to start the bidding (auction) / to start a trading session (stock market)
partner
to take a picture or video of oneself / to take a selfie / selfie
to make a movie
to urge on a horse by patting its bottom / fig. to encourage / same as 拍馬屁|拍马屁, to flatter or toady
to flatter / to fawn on / to butter sb up / toadying / bootlicking
to slap the table in amazement (idiom); wonderful! / amazing!
to vouch for
lit. slap the table and shout with praise (idiom); fig. wonderful! / amazing! / great!
to capture (an image) / to snap (a photo)
(of an item) to fail to sell at an auction
to beat time
lit. one palm alone cannot clap (proverb) / fig. it takes two persons to start a dispute / it takes two to tango / it's difficult to achieve anything without support
to pat / to slap / (of a bird) to flap (one's wings)
to beat time; to mark rhythm on drum or clapper boards
in time with (i.e. same rhythm) / to keep in step with / fig. to cooperate
to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants / to toady / boot-licking
lit. to be together from the first beat (idiom) / to hit it off / to click together / to chime in easily
to smack / to beat
to prepare to film; to plan a shoot
to resort to bragging and flattering
writing pad
to sell at auction / to reach a given price at auction
to beat against the shore (of waves)
beat (music) / paddle-shaped object (flyswatter etc) / racket (sports)
to send / to cable (a telegram)
(idiom) to slam the table and rise to one's feet in indignation
lit. to slap the table (in amazement, praise, anger, resentment etc) / fig. astonishing!, wonderful!, dreadful! etc
to take a staged photograph
to boast and flatter
to document on film the course of events / to follow sb with a camera
aerial photography (video or still)
candid photograph / genuine photograph (not set up or doctored)
(Tw) excuse me; to be sorry; apologetic; embarrassed; shy (from Taiwanese 歹勢, Tai-lo pr. [pháinn-sè]) (also sometimes written as 歹勢 in Mandarin)
drone equipped for aerial photography
(idiom) (of marriage or business partners) to break up; to separate
metronome
(Tw) (coll.) to seek sympathy
selfie stick
ping-pong paddle
Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part I), first of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初
to make oneself scarce / to slip away / to take French leave
smashed cucumber salad
flyswatter
aerial photography (video or still) (Tw)
electric mosquito swatter
Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part II), second of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初
to resort to bragging and flattering / abbr. for 吹牛拍馬|吹牛拍马
land auction; to sell land at auction (abbr. for 土地拍賣|土地拍卖)
hurried / impatient / rushed
to start shooting (a film) / to invest in (a movie) / to put (sth) up for auction
to chase girls / to hang around with girls
citizen journalist (typically posting short, self-produced documentary videos on the Web)
(dialect) to perform; to act (in a play etc)
(slang) to throw brickbats / to criticize harshly
time signature (music)
auctioneer / auction house
auction / CL: 場|场
to send a telegram
flatterer / toady
(music) beat
to bid (at an auction) / auction
camera self-timer (for delayed shutter release)
selfie stick / also written 自拍杆
camera self-timer mode (for delayed shutter release)
selfie
Dutch auction / descending-price auction
starting bid; starting price (at an auction)


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