| | a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘｜打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打電話｜打电话 "to make a phone call", 打針｜打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打氣｜打气 "to inflate") / to hit; to strike / to fight / (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後｜打那以后 "since then") | HSK 1 |
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| | ability; talent / sb of a certain type / a capable individual / then and only then / just now / (before an expression of quantity) only | HSK 2 |
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| | again; once more; re- / further; beyond this point of time / (before an adjective) more / then (after sth, and not until then) / no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也 or 都 for emphasis) / (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則｜再则, 再就是 etc) / (literary) to reappear; to reoccur | HSK 1 |
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| | sometimes / now and then | HSK 1 |
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| | from time to time / now and then / occasionally / frequently | HSK 5 |
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| | to catch and hold on / to continue / to go on to do sth / to follow / to carry on / then / after that / subsequently / to proceed / to ensue / in turn / in one's turn | HSK 2 |
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| | equivalent to 就可以 / can then (do sth) / can immediately (do sth) / (do sth) and that will suffice | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to flourish then decline / rise and fall | |
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| | to test positive again (for COVID-19) after previously testing positive and then later, negative; to have a rebound positive test result | |
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| | then and now / ancient and modern | |
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| | to hum and haw (idiom); to mumble as if hiding sth / to speak and break off, then start again / to hold sth back | |
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| | water in which rice has been boiled and then strained out | |
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| | occasionally / now and then | |
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| | and then; and thereby; and in turn | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (of people with tight budget) to enjoy various dishes at the restaurant by ordering the food together and then sharing the costs | |
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| | lit. shut the door and beat the dog (idiom) / fig. seal off the enemy's avenue of retreat, then strike hard | |
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| | Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army | |
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| | Qu Yuan Memorial Hall in Zigui county 秭歸縣｜秭归县, Hubei, built in 1982 and a major tourist attraction since then | |
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| | lit. to shoot from both sides (idiom) / fig. to display ambidexterity / to slap with one hand and then the other, in quick succession / to use both feet equally (football) | |
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| | can then (and only then) | |
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| | forward delivery apartment / unfinished housing to be paid for in advance by the buyer and then completed within certain time frame | |
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| | to besiege and strike the relief force (idiom); strategy of surrounding a unit to entice the enemy to reinforce, then striking the new troops | |
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| | Duan Qirui (1864-1936), commander of Beiyang Army under Yuan Shikai, then politician and powerful warlord | |
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| | Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, then executed in 1975 after opposing the counterrevolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979 | |
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| | PRC State Planning Committee, set up in 1952, replaced in 1998 by State Development and Planning Committee 國家發展計劃委員會｜国家发展计划委员会 then in 2003 by National Development and Reform Commission 國家發展和改革委員會｜国家发展和改革委员会 | |
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| | lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor) | |
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| | (name) Rabiye or Rebiya / Rebiya Kadeer (1946–), Uyghur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999–2005, then president of the World Uyghur Congress | |
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| | to work vaguely then retreat (idiom); sloppy and half-hearted / half-baked | |
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| | to lose sth and then regain it (idiom) | |
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| | lit. sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight (idiom) / fig. watch in safety whilst others fight then reap the rewards when both sides are exhausted | |
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| | wooden board used to make a coffin (also refers to the coffin itself); (fig.) (of a facial expression) grim; unsmiling / coffin bread, a Taiwanese snack consisting of a thick slab of bread, fried or toasted, then hollowed out, filled with a thick stew, and capped with a "coffin lid" (slice of fried bread) | |
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| | double-bang firecracker (which explodes once on the ground and then a second time in the air after being propelled upward) | |
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| | lit. to stop after taking just a sip (idiom); fig. to gain only a superficial knowledge of sth and then stop | |
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| | (coll.) to scam sb by setting up an "accident" in which one appears to have sustained damage or injury caused by the scam victim, then demanding compensation (variations include putting "expensive" porcelain in a place where it is likely to be knocked over by passers-by, and stepping into the path of a slow-moving car) | |
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| | lit. twice then three times (idiom); fig. repeatedly / over and over again | |
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| | Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces | |
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| | to do as one sees fit / It's up to you. / Let's wait and see and then decide what to do. | |
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| | a traditional pastry of Taiwan and Fujian which is fried, then coated with maltose and rolled in sesame seeds or chopped peanuts etc / Taiwan pr. [lao3] | |
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| | to ebb and rise / to decrease and then grow | |
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| | Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then president of the World Uighur Congress | |
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| | Hong Taiji (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤｜努尔哈赤, reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後金｜后金, then founded the Qing dynasty 大清 and reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor / posthumous name 清太宗 | |
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| | Hong Taiji (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤｜努尔哈赤, reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後金｜后金, then founded the Qing dynasty 大清 and reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor | |
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| | to work vaguely then retreat (idiom); sloppy and half-hearted / half-baked | |
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| | to drug and then rape sb | |
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| | to write for a bit then give up / to write in fits and starts | |
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| | to boil; to brew (tea) / to cook by briefly stir-frying and then mixing in sauce / (old) to boil to death (judicial punishment in ancient times) | |
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| | Zhao Ziyang (1919-2005), PRC reforming politician, general secretary of Chinese Communist Party 1987-1989, held under house arrest from 1989 to his death, and non-person since then | |
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| | (arch. introductory particle) / then / and then | |
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| | Ngawang Choephel (1966-), Tibetan musicologist and dissident, Fullbright scholar (1993-1994), jailed 1995-2002 then released to US | |
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| | lit. to eat meat from one's bowl, then put down one's chopsticks and scold one's mother (idiom) / fig. to complain despite being privileged / to be ungrateful for what one has been given | |
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| | Examination Yuan, the qualification and appointment board under the constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan / exam board | |
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| | Rebiya Kadeer (1946–), Uyghur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999–2005, then president of the World Uyghur Congress | |
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| | (name) Rabiye or Rebiya / Rebiya Kadeer (1946–), Uyghur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999–2005, then president of the World Uyghur Congress | |
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| | to briefly boil (a vegetable etc), then dress with soy sauce, oil, vinegar etc / to briefly stir-fry (meat, chopped spring onions etc), then add to other ingredients and cook further | |
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| | posthumous title of Hong Taiji 皇太極｜皇太极 (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤｜努尔哈赤, reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後金｜后金, then founded the Qing dynasty 大清 and reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor | |
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| | Amu Darya, the biggest river of Central Asia, from Pamir to Aral sea, forming the boundary between Afghanistan and Tajikistan then flowing through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan / formerly called Oxus by Greek and Western writers, and Gihon by medieval Islamic writers | |
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