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soft; mushy / well-cooked and soft / to rot; to decompose / rotten / worn out / chaotic; messy / utterly; thoroughly / crappy; bad
HSK 5
to glitter / brilliant / splendid
HSK 7-9
to rot / to putrefy / (fig.) corrupt
HSK 7-9
(of a construction project etc) unfinished; derailed (due to critical setbacks)
(idiom) innocent and unaffected
unaffected; unpretentious / (literary) brightly colored; vibrant
to fester; to ulcerate
mud / mire
smashed up; broken into pieces; thoroughly mashed; pulpy
worn-out; dilapidated; tattered; ragged / (coll.) rubbish; junk
splendid / gorgeous / dazzling
lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom) / fig. hard-pressed; under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)
to smash
lit. until the seas dry up and stones go soft (idiom) / fig. forever; until the end of time
dissipated / rotten / decaying
well cooked / to know thoroughly
overripe / overcooked
(idiom) to be dead drunk; to be plastered
mold / rot
dead drunk / completely drunk
lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently / to know sth inside out / to know sth by heart
disorganized accounts / uncollectable debts; bad debt
rotten
(neologism c. 2014) (slang) to stop striving (esp. when one knows one cannot succeed); to let it all go to hell; (sports) to tank
(dialect) hooligan; low-life
(slang) (Tw) to bullshit / to fool
dud movie
to tear up / to tear to pieces
(of food etc) soft; pulpy / (Tw) (of a person) lacking drive; shiftless; lazy
(Tw) (slang) to be ticked off by (sb or sth); to be pissed at (sb or sth); to be in a foul mood; down in the dumps (from Taiwanese 揬𡳞, Tai-lo pr. [tu̍h-lān])
clichéd
to mash / to beat to a pulp
lame joke
to destroy by smashing / smashed up
rotten to the core
the palest ink is better than the best memory (idiom)
variant of 爛漫|烂漫
variant of 爛漫|烂漫
lit. the meat falls apart as it stews, but it all stays in the pot (idiom) / fig. some of us may lose or gain, but in any case the benefits don't go to outsiders
uncompleted building; building whose construction has run into difficulties and stopped
unhappy love affair
terrible mess; shambles
multicolored splendor (of fireworks, bright lights etc)
to compare two unsatisfactory things / to argue that others have similar or worse faults (as a response to criticism) / whataboutery
(coll.) (of a fashion item, song etc) to be everywhere now; to be nothing special anymore; to have lost its novelty
to bite off more than one can chew (idiom)
to have a silver tongue / to have the gift of the gab
(slang) stupid; ridiculous
vesicant
lit. rafters that jut out rot first (idiom) / fig. anyone who makes himself conspicuous will be targeted for attack
scrap metal / a pile of junk
(coll.) to pester / to harass
sb who tries to be on good terms with everyone
(slang) EA's Origin platform
loose woman / slut
useless (idiom) / worthless / inept
to gossip / to blab / a blab-mouth
lit. stale grain, overcooked sesame (idiom); fig. the same boring old gossip
rotting; decaying


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