| | short / brief / to lack / weak point / fault | HSK 2 |
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| | text message / SMS | HSK 2 |
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| | short term / short-term | HSK 3 |
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| | short pants / shorts | HSK 3 |
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| | shortcoming / defect / fault / one's weak points | HSK 3 |
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| | to shorten; to reduce; to curtail | HSK 4 |
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| | length / accident; mishap / right and wrong; good and bad; merits and demerits | HSK 6 |
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| | short film / video clip | HSK 6 |
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| | brief (statement, summary etc) / briefly / brevity | HSK 7-9 |
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| | of short duration; brief; momentary | HSK 7-9 |
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| | shortage | HSK 7-9 |
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| | phrase (grammar) | |
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| | short piece; article; short essay | |
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| | short circuit | |
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| | clause | |
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| | short sleeves / short-sleeved shirt | |
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| | lit. use others' strengths to make up for one's weak points (idiom from Mencius) / to use this in place of that / what you lose on the swings, you win on the roundabouts | |
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| | dagger | |
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| | to foster strengths and avoid weaknesses (idiom) / to play to one's strengths | |
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| | to die young / short-lived | |
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| | short range | |
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| | short term | |
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| | short in time / fleeting / brief / gasping (breath) / curt (tone of voice) | |
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| | to be short of the full amount | |
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| | (usually fig.) shortsighted / myopic | |
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| | to defend sb (a relative, friend or oneself) despite knowing that that person is in the wrong | |
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| | shortwave (radio) | |
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| | sock | |
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| | (of a person) short but plucky (idiom) / (of an article) concise and forceful | |
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| | ultra short wave (radio) / UHF | |
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| | SMS / text message | |
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| | brief (in time) | |
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| | sprint (race) | |
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| | to be shortsighted | |
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| | (idiom) to make a long story short; to keep it brief | |
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| | unexpected misfortune / unexpected accident / sudden death | |
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| | (slang) micro-miniskirt | |
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| | (idiom) talking endlessly; long-winded | |
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| | narrow and shallow | |
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| | lit. short-weaponed soldiery fight one another (idiom); fierce hand-to-hand infantry combat / to fight at close quarters | |
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| | to expose sb's faults or shortcomings | |
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| | temporary job / odd job / seasonal worker | |
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| | short-sighted / suicide | |
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| | to give short weight | |
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| | (of a person) short in stature | |
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| | take from the long to supplement the short (idiom) / to offset each other's deficiencies / to complement each other | |
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| | lit. to discuss sb's merits and demerits (idiom); to gossip | |
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| | to spread malicious gossip | |
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| | to spread malicious gossip / also written 飛短流長｜飞短流长 | |
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| | long moan and short gasp (idiom); continually moaning and groaning in pain | |
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| | stocky (short and robust) | |
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| | lit. to argue who is right and wrong (idiom) / fig. to squabble; to argue over minor issues | |
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| | to fall short in one's payments / to lack / to be short of | |
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| | ballad | |
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| | to give short weight | |
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| | ankle boots | |
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| | miniskirt | |
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| | (idiom) a piece of paper is too short to convey my feelings | |
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| | short stave of the barrel (which allows the contents to escape) / (fig.) shortcoming; weak point | |
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| | short garment / short jacket | |
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| | adjectival phrase | |
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| | (slang) micro-miniskirt | |
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| | alligator | |
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| | short story | |
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| | poor prospects in the short term (finance) | |
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| | better to just get the pain over with, rather than prolong the agony | |
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| | the winter days are short and the nights long (idiom) | |
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| | short pass (in ball game) | |
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| | good prospects in the short term (finance) | |
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| | energy shortage | |
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| | camera (jocular) | |
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| | short wavelength | |
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| | the winter solstice | |
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| | lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom) / fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted | |
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| | (bird species of China) short-tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) | |
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| | brief | |
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| | short video; video clip | |
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| | (bird species of China) greater short-toed lark (Calandrella brachydactyla) | |
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| | sb who dies prematurely | |
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| | (bird species of China) short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) | |
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| | to be focused on short-term gain | |
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| | short- or medium-term loan | |
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| | to commit suicide | |
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| | lit. for some things a foot may be too short, and for the other an inch will suffice (proverb) / fig. everyone has their strong and weak points / everything has its advantages and disadvantages | |
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| | (bird species of China) chestnut bulbul (Hemixos castanonotus) | |
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| | narrow and shallow (knowledge or skill) / superficial | |
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| | (bird species of China) ashy bulbul (Hemixos flavala) | |
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| | quokka (Setonix brachyurus) | |
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| | (bird species of China) short-tailed shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris) | |
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| | a geodesic | |
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| | lit. short jacket party / working people / the toiling masses / blue collar workers | |
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| | (bird species of China) short-toed snake eagle (Circaetus gallicus) | |
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| | brief introduction | |
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| | (bird species of China) white-browed shortwing (Brachypteryx montana) | |
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| | (bird species of China) black bulbul (Hypsipetes leucocephalus) | |
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| | (bird species of China) Chinese bush warbler (Locustella tacsanowskia) | |
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| | (bird species of China) Asian short-toed lark (Alaudala cheleensis) | |
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| | poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition | |
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