|  | the waist and lower back  / (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food)  / the waist of trousers or a skirt  / (metonym) money pouch; pocket  / (bound form) the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc)   | HSK 4  | 
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 |  | (dialect) to bend over   |  | 
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 |  | waist-to-hip ratio   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) white-rumped snowfinch (Onychostruthus taczanowskii)   |  | 
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 |  | excess fat on the waist; love handles   |  | 
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 |  | waist  / waistline   |  | 
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 |  | the place halfway up a mountain   |  | 
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 |  | (allusion to Tao Qian  陶潛|陶潜, who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate)   / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary   |  | 
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 |  | to stretch oneself (on waking or when tired etc)   |  | 
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 |  | lower back  / (sports) defensive midfielder   |  | 
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 |  | (hitting) squarely in the middle  / (slicing) across the middle  / to hold by the waist   |  | 
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 |  | back of a tiger and waist of a bear  / tough and stocky build   |  | 
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 |  | (saying) it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter; (fig.) to be an armchair expert; to blabber on   |  | 
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 |  | waistband   |  | 
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 |  | (Tw) (publishing) belly band (paper sash around a book, outside the dust jacket)   |  | 
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 |  | (gymnastics) to do a bridge  / to do a crab   |  | 
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 |  | cashew nuts   |  | 
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 |  | isosceles triangle   |  | 
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 |  | lumbar vertebra (lower backbone)   |  | 
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 |  | middle  / halfway   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) striated swallow (Cecropis striolata)   |  | 
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 |  | (a person's) back (usu. as sth one keeps straight)  / (fig.) backing; support   |  | 
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 |  | intervertebral disk   |  | 
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 |  | waist and back  / physique   |  | 
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 |  | to support  / to brace   |  | 
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 |  | girdle   |  | 
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 |  | lumbar vertebrae   |  | 
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 |  | tall and strong  / burly  / beefy   |  | 
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 |  | middle  / halfway   |  | 
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 |  | (lit.) to cry from hunger (from Taiwanese  哭枵, Tai-lo pr. [khàu-iau])   / (Tw) (slang) to whine; shut the hell up!; fuck!; damn!   |  | 
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 |  | slouch  / stoop  / poor posture   |  | 
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 |  | slender waistline   |  | 
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 |  | to pay out of one's own pocket  / to dig into one's pocket   |  | 
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 |  | to bow  / to bend at the waist   |  | 
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 |  | to sway one's hips  / to twist one's waist   |  | 
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 |  | to nod one's head and bow (idiom); bowing and scraping  / unctuous fawning   |  | 
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 |  | to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment)  / to cut sth in half  / to reduce sth by a dramatic margin  / to terminate  / to cut short   |  | 
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 |  | to stoop   |  | 
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 |  | a stretch (of one's body)   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) Aleutian tern (Onychoprion aleuticus)   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)   |  | 
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 |  | waist  / small of the back  / (fig.) backing   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata)   |  | 
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 |  | to put one's hands on one's hips   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) white-rumped sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)   |  | 
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 |  | kidney   |  | 
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 |  | to bend over; to stoop down  / Taiwan pr. [mao1yao1]   |  | 
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 |  | waist measurement  / girth   |  | 
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 |  | to bend   |  | 
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 |  | to straighten one's back  / to arch one's back   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) red-mantled rosefinch (Carpodacus rhodochlamys)   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) blue-rumped parrot (Psittinus cyanurus)   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) yellow-rumped honeyguide (Indicator xanthonotus)   |  | 
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 |  | slipped disk  / vertebral herniation  / prolapsed disk   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) house swift (Apus nipalensis)   |  | 
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 |  | waist  / small of the back   |  | 
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 |  | waist purse (old)  / (fig.) purse  / pocket  / waist pack  / fanny pack  / bum bag   |  | 
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 |  | lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money  / extremely wealthy  / loaded   |  | 
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 |  | waist   |  | 
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 |  | waist drum  / waist-drum dance (Han ethnic group folk dance)   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) Pallas's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus proregulus)   |  | 
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 |  | loin   |  | 
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 |  | dimples of Venus  / back dimples   |  | 
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 |  | harness pad (on draft animal)   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) Leach's storm petrel (Hydrobates leucorhous)   |  | 
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 |  | herniated lumbar disk   |  | 
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 |  | waist of trousers  / waistband   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) common redpoll (Acanthis flammea)   |  | 
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 |  | slender waist  / fig. pretty woman  / mortise and tenon joint on a coffin   |  | 
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 |  | slender and supple waist  / lithe body  / feminine pose   |  | 
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 |  | (coll.) tiny waist   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) red-rumped swallow (Cecropis daurica)   |  | 
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 |  | wide belt  / sash  / (packaging) paper sash around a book or other product   |  | 
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 |  | (coll.) to pace around nervously  / to speak indirectly  / to beat about the bush   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) crimson sunbird (Aethopyga siparaja)   |  | 
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 |  | to dip into one's pocket; to pay out of pocket; to foot the bill   |  | 
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 |  | chicken with cashew nuts   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) Baird's sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)   |  | 
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 |  | lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom)   / fig. A is far richer (or more powerful) than B   / (used in a pattern such as A 拔根汗毛比B 的腰粗)   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus)   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)   |  | 
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 |  | hips  / waist   |  | 
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 |  | waist of a bear and back of a tiger  / tough and stocky build   |  | 
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 |  | golden seal at the waist, purple gown (idiom); in official position   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) lemon-rumped warbler (Phylloscopus chloronotus)   |  | 
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 |  | to bend at the waist; to bow  / (fig.) to bow to; to submit   |  | 
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 |  | to back sb up  / to support (from the rear)   |  | 
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