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| | and / as well as / and so / but (not) / yet (not) / (indicates causal relation) / (indicates change of state) / (indicates contrast) | HSK 4 |
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| | that's fine / may as well / (reduplicated) regardless of whether ... or ... | HSK 5 |
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| | candid / direct and to the point / simply / just / might as well | HSK 5 |
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| | you might as well (do it) / simply / just | HSK 7-9 |
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| | it is obvious that... / as one can well imagine... | HSK 7-9 |
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| | there is no harm in; might as well | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to carry / to convey / to load / to hold / to fill up / and / also / as well as / simultaneously | |
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| | (of a fragrance) to waft about / (fig.) (of foods) to become popular in other places as well | |
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| | take-out (fast food) / (outer part of) tire / as well / besides / into the bargain / outer zone | |
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| | Since they have come, we should make them comfortable (idiom). Since we're here, take it easy. / Since this is so, we should accept it. / Now we have come, let's stay and take the rough with the smooth. / If you can't do anything to prevent it, you might as well sit back and enjoy it. | |
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| | (standing) very straight / straight as a ramrod / bolt upright / well-ironed / trim | |
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| | (idiom) to dupe people by passing oneself off as a well-connected individual or a figure of authority | |
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| | lit. secure as a city protected by a wall of metal and a moat of boiling water (idiom) / fig. well fortified; invulnerable to attack | |
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| | well established / accepted as a result of long usage | |
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| | to enquire, according to custom, after the name and horoscope of intended bride / one of a set of six traditional marriage protocols ( 六禮|六礼), in which name as well as date and time of birth (for horoscope) are formally requested of the prospective bride's family | |
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| | lit. father a lion, son cannot be a dog (honorific); With a distinguished father such as you, the son is sure to do well. / like father, like son | |
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| | Jiufen (or Jioufen or Chiufen), mountainside town in north Taiwan, former gold mining town, used as the setting for two well-known movies | |
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| | Ai Weiwei (1957-), Chinese artist active in architecture, photography, film, as well as cultural criticism and political activism | |
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| | (of CDs, videos etc) surplus (or "cut-out") stock from Western countries, sometimes marked with a notch in the disc or its case, sold cheaply in China (beginning in the 1990s), as well as Eastern Europe etc | |
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| | lit. either don't do it, or don't rest (idiom) / fig. if you do it at all, you may as well go the whole hog / in for a penny, in for a pound | |
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| | (idiom) to suffer the departure of sb (talented staff or one's spouse etc) and a financial loss as well; to get burned both romantically and financially | |
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| | lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect / well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it | |
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| | no harm (in doing it) / One might as well. / It won't hurt. / no matter / it's no bother | |
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| | if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes | |
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| | Pearson (family name as well as various places) | |
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| | to be better off ... / might as well ... | |
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| | a deal where the parties collude to sign an under-the-table "yin contract" 陰合同|阴合同 as well as an ostensibly genuine "yang contract" 陽合同|阳合同 in order to deceive authorities | |
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