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to give one's respects / to send a greeting / (fig.) (coll.) to make offensive reference to (somebody dear to the person to whom one is speaking)
HSK 4
private / personal / interpersonal / sb with whom one has a close personal relationship / a member of one's clique
HSK 5
friend from whom you can seek advice
to put oneself out in the public eye (said of sb for whom doing so is deemed unseemly)
a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer / fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions / ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee
(PRC) teacher by negative example / sb from whom one can learn what not to do
(dialect) close childhood friend whom one grew up with / a couple who grew up as childhood friends
(slang) to revel in the sight of one's favorite couple being affectionate / to lap it up when one sees a couple whom one ships kissing or cuddling
sb with whom one is on familiar terms / sb from the same place (same house, same town etc) / one of us
to sit at a table with others with whom one is unacquainted
Zuo Qiuming or Zuoqiu Ming (556-451), famous blind historian from Lu 魯國|鲁国 to whom the history Zuo Zhuan 左傳|左传 is attributed
a connection (sb with whom one has dealings on the basis of "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours")
network of people with whom one has dealings on the basis of "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours"
Dear Sirs / To Whom It May Concern
Richter (name) / Charles Francis Richter (1900-1985), US physicist and seismologist, after whom the Richter scale is named
heaven is jealous of heroic genius (idiom); the great have great hardship to contend with / those whom the Gods love die young
(Tw) (neologism c. 2010) to speak one's mind directly (face to face with the person with whom one has an issue) (from Taiwanese 出來講, Tai-lo pr. [tshut-lâi kóng], with "tshut-lâi" pronounced in contracted form as "tshòai")
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
(slang) to kabedon; to corner (sb in whom one has a romantic interest) against a wall (loanword from Japanese ドン "kabedon")
(Buddhism) the pain of parting with what (or whom) one loves, one of the eight distresses 八苦
premature death of a budding talent / those whom the Gods love die young
Xu Zhonglin or Chen Zhonglin 陳仲琳|陈仲琳 (c. 1567-c. 1620), Ming novelist, to whom the fantasy novel Investiture of the Gods 封神演義|封神演义 is attributed, together with Lu Xixing 陸西星|陆西星
Chen Zhonglin, aka Xu Zhonglin 許仲琳|许仲琳 (c. 1567-c. 1620), Ming novelist, to whom the fantasy novel Investiture of the Gods 封神演義|封神演义 is attributed, together with Lu Xixing 陸西星|陆西星
a "screw that never rusts" — sb who is a loyal, dependable, humble contributor who quietly holds everything together and never fails in their duty, like Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋, to whom the metaphor is attributed
Lu Xixing (1520-c. 1601), Ming Daoist author, to whom the fantasy novel Investiture of the Gods 封神演義|封神演义 is attributed, together with Xu Zhonglin 許仲琳|许仲琳


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