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| | light / easy / gentle / soft / reckless / unimportant / frivolous / small in number / unstressed / neutral / to disparage | HSK 2 |
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| | light / gentle / relaxed / effortless / uncomplicated / to relax / to take things less seriously | HSK 4 |
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| | easy; simple / rashly; offhandedly | HSK 4 |
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| | to lighten / to ease / to alleviate | HSK 5 |
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| | slight / light / trivial / to a small extent | HSK 7-9 |
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| | easy / with no difficulty | HSK 7-9 |
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| | light (machinery, aircraft etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | scornful; disdainful; contemptuous; pejorative / disdain; contempt | HSK 7-9 |
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| | insignificant | HSK 7-9 |
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| | mild (symptoms etc) | |
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| | lightweight (boxing etc) | |
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| | to easily trust; gullible; naïve | |
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| | light rail; transit system (underground, at street level or elevated); streetcar; metro (abbr. for 輕型軌道交通|轻型轨道交通) | |
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| | lightly; softly | |
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| | to play a critical role (idiom) / influential | |
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| | quietly / softly / neutral tone / light stress | |
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| | light (weight) / frivolous / a philanderer / to scorn / disrespectful | |
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| | to be lenient (in sentencing) | |
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| | a suicide / to commit suicide | |
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| | breeze / light wind | |
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| | to treat sth lightly; to lower one's guard | |
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| | graceful / lithe / light and graceful / lighthearted / relaxed | |
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| | light engineering | |
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| | frivolous | |
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| | dexterous / deft / easy / light and easy to use / nimble / agile / lithe / graceful | |
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| | light muslin / gauze | |
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| | severity (of the case) / degree of seriousness / whether sth is slight or serious | |
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| | to value males and attach less importance to females (idiom) | |
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| | slight or important, urgent or non-urgent (idiom); to deal with important matters first / sense of priority | |
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| | lightweight and portable / light and convenient | |
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| | frivolous / careless / giddy | |
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| | (idiom) (to move or do sth) softly; quietly; gently | |
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| | light and quick / brisk / spry / lively / effortless / relaxed / agile / blithe | |
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| | full of youthful vigor (idiom) / in the prime of youth | |
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| | young and promising | |
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| | frivolous / coquettish | |
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| | lit. to drive a lightweight chariot on a familiar road (idiom) / fig. to do sth routinely and with ease / a walk in the park | |
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| | quick and skillful / agile | |
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| | to underestimate the enemy | |
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| | light cavalry / light motorcycle / moped | |
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| | to belittle / to scorn / to take sth lightly | |
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| | light as a feather | |
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| | scholars tend to disparage one another (idiom) | |
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| | soft; gentle; pliable | |
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| | to avoid the important and dwell on the trivial / to keep silent about major charges while admitting minor ones | |
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| | (idiom) to treat sth as no big deal / to downplay / to understate | |
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| | irreverent | |
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| | to beat easily / to gain an easy victory | |
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| | top-heavy / fig. unbalance in organization or political structure | |
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| | lit. an easy drive on a familiar path (idiom); fig. experience makes progress easy / a task that is so familiar one can do it with one's hand tied behind one's back | |
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| | petty crime / misdemeanor | |
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| | to act blindly without thinking (idiom) | |
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| | cavalier / offhand / reckless | |
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| | light as a goose feather (idiom); trifling / unimportant | |
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| | lightly wounded / minor injuries | |
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| | young and vigorous (idiom) | |
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| | lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things / naive / doesn't know who's who / no sense of priorities | |
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| | (idiom) what lowly people think counts for little | |
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| | to stroke lightly / to caress | |
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| | to belittle oneself / self-contempt | |
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| | light water (as opposed to heavy water) / see light water reactor 輕水反應堆|轻水反应堆 | |
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| | to speak softly | |
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| | (of an official) to travel with little luggage and just a small escort / to travel without ostentation | |
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| | to look down upon | |
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| | relaxed / easy | |
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| | as lithe as a swallow (of athlete or beautiful girl) | |
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| | to say, without careful consideration | |
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| | lit. stout horses and light furs / fig. to live in luxury | |
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| | to value righteousness rather than material gain (idiom) | |
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| | (literary) to treat with disrespect | |
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| | to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the unimportant and neglect the important) / lacking a sense of perspective / to put the cart before the horse | |
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| | (idiom) hasty and rude; caustic and sharp-tongued | |
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| | light meal; snack | |
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| | to nibble | |
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| | lightweight | |
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| | tinge | |
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| | to forgive easily / to let off lightly (often with negative: you won't get away with it) | |
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| | Hong Kong LRT (Light Rail Transit) (abbr. for 輕便鐵路|轻便铁路) | |
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| | less serious case / in less severe cases | |
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| | lepton (particle physics) | |
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| | frivolous / capricious / playful | |
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| | to tap; to hit lightly | |
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| | sharp and clear / crisp / melodious / ringing / tinkling / silvery (of sound) / fragile / frail / also written 清脆 | |
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| | goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it. | |
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| | to speak softly / to whisper (idiom) | |
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| | light on one's feet / nimble / agile | |
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| | light weapon | |
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| | paying more attention to a lover than friends (idiom) / to value sex over friendship | |
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| | goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it. | |
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| | lit. light furs and stout horses / fig. to live in luxury | |
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| | Bren gun, British light machine gun first produced in 1937 | |
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| | lit. light mouth, thin tongue (idiom); hasty and rude / caustic and sharp-tongued | |
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| | light industry | |
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| | lit. to inquire whether the tripods are light or heavy (idiom); a laughable attempt to seize power | |
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| | to make more youthful / to promote younger staff | |
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| | to hold each other in low regard | |
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| | slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it. | |
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| | light rail / transit system (underground, at street level or elevated) / streetcar / metro / abbr. to 輕軌|轻轨 | |
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| | also written 輕機槍|轻机枪 / light machine gun | |
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