| | before / formerly / previous / ago | HSK 2 |
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| | after / later / afterwards / following / later on / in the future | HSK 2 |
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| | that level or lower / that amount or less / the following | HSK 2 |
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| | apart from / other than / except for / external / outside of / on the other side of / beyond | HSK 2 |
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| | that level or higher; that amount or more / the above-mentioned / (used to indicate that one has completed one's remarks) That is all. | HSK 2 |
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| | to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.) | HSK 2 |
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| | since (a previous event) | HSK 3 |
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| | within / less than | HSK 4 |
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| | and; as well as | HSK 4 |
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| | so that / so as to / in order to | HSK 5 |
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| | in the past; formerly | HSK 5 |
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| | to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in order to avoid / so as not to | HSK 7-9 |
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| | down to / up to / to the extent that... | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to such an extent as to / down to / up to | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to the east of (suffix) | |
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| | to guard against the unexpected (idiom); just in case / prepared for any eventualities | |
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| | (loanword) ether (hypothetical medium that transmits light waves) | |
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| | to the north of (suffix) | |
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| | to the west of (suffix) | |
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| | in order to / hoping to / attempting to / waiting for | |
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| | (so as) to avoid / to prevent / (just) in case | |
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| | and so on / in a similar fashion | |
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| | in order to | |
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| | with this / thereby / thus / because of this | |
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| | down to / up to / to such an extent as to ... / also written 以至於|以至于 | |
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| | to the south of (suffix) | |
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| | to learn from history (idiom) | |
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| | by way of / to serve as | |
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| | to use one's position for personal gain (idiom) | |
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| | using the few to defeat the many (idiom); to win from a position of weakness | |
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| | (lit.) to take a part for the whole / to generalize | |
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| | using the weak to defeat the strong (idiom); to win from a position of weakness | |
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| | a tooth for a tooth (retaliation) | |
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| | to judge sb by appearances (idiom) | |
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| | to wait at one's ease for the exhausted enemy / to nurture one's strength and bide one's time (idiom) | |
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| | an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (idiom) / fig. to use the enemy's methods against him / to give sb a taste of his own medicine | |
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| | to treat sb with due respect (idiom) | |
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| | to provide work to relieve poverty | |
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| | to bathe one's face in tears (idiom) | |
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| | to use softness to conquer strength (idiom) | |
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| | an eye for an eye (idiom); fig. to use the enemy's methods against him / to give sb a taste of his own medicine | |
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| | to cure ills with poison (TCM) / to fight evil with evil / set a thief to catch a thief / to fight fire with fire | |
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| | to return good for evil (idiom) / to requite evil with good | |
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| | to challenge the law (idiom) / to knowingly violate the law | |
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| | (idiom) to warn against following bad examples; as a warning to others | |
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| | to spread falsehoods / to increasingly distort the truth / to pile errors on top of errors (idiom) | |
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| | to use one's neighbor as a drain / to shift one's problems onto others (idiom) | |
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| | to dedicate oneself to the cause of one's country (idiom) | |
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| | to use one's strength to bully the weak (idiom) | |
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| | Isaac (son of Abraham) | |
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| | to replace one tyranny by another / to use violence against violence | |
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| | to substitute one's words for the law (idiom); high-handedly putting one's orders above the law | |
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| | since (some point in the past) | |
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| | (idiom) to deal with varying circumstances by adhering to a basic principle | |
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| | Book of Ezekiel | |
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| | in the proper order / the following | |
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| | for the benefit of the reader | |
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| | to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties) / Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan) | |
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| | to give one's heart to / to devote one's life to | |
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| | Epistle of St Paul to the Ephesians | |
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| | Ephraim (city) | |
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| | to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹) / to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game; to give sb a taste of his own medicine | |
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| | to disrespect one's superiors / to offend one's elders | |
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| | Eleazar (son of Eluid) | |
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| | Eliakim (name, Hebrew: God will raise up) / Eliakim, servant of the Lord in Isaiah 22:20 / Eliakim, son of Abiud and father of Azor in Matthew 1:13 | |
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| | Book of Ezra | |
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| | for the sake of / in order to | |
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| | to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on preference between advisers rather than the merits of the case | |
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| | to be prepared for accidents | |
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| | to succeed through failure / to achieve one's final aim despite apparent setback | |
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| | Eluid (son of Achim) | |
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| | to repay kindness with kindness, and repay enmity with justice (idiom, from Analects) | |
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| | to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom) | |
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| | Book of Esther | |
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| | to demonstrate one's sincerity by dying | |
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| | to serve as a warning (idiom) | |
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| | to let correct ideology guide practical work (idiom) | |
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| | to barter / barter | |
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| | harmony is to be prized | |
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| | in support or witness hereof (idiom) | |
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| | to control a key point is to be master of the situation (idiom) | |
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| | to name sth after a person / named after / eponymous | |
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| | people-oriented | |
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| | debt nurtures more debt (idiom) | |
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| | to number in the thousands | |
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| | Elijah (Old Testament prophet) | |
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| | lit. to strike a stone with egg (idiom); to attempt the impossible / to invite disaster by overreaching oneself | |
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| | Israel-Egypt | |
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| | Ethernet port | |
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| | lit. use sb's spear to attack his shield (idiom, derived from Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子); turning a weapon against its owner / fig. to attack an opponent using his own devices / hoist with his own petard | |
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