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right; correct / towards; at; for / concerning; regarding / to treat (sb a certain way) / to face / (bound form) opposite; facing; matching / to match together; to adjust / to fit; to suit / to answer; to reply / to add; to pour in (a fluid) / to check; to compare / classifier: couple; pair
HSK 1
incorrect / wrong / amiss / abnormal / queer
HSK 1
to talk (with sb) / dialogue; conversation
HSK 2
I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon / to let (sb) down; to disappoint
HSK 1
absolute; unconditional
HSK 3
target; object / partner; boyfriend; girlfriend / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
(sitting) opposite / across (the street) / directly in front / to be face to face
HSK 2
to handle; to deal with; to tackle / to get by with; to make do / (dialect) (usu. used in the negative) to get along with (sb)
HSK 4
to withstand / to resist / to stand off / antagonism / confrontation
HSK 6
the other person; the other side; the other party
HSK 3
to contrast / contrast / ratio / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
regarding; as far as (sth) is concerned; with regard to
HSK 4
to treat / treatment
HSK 3
to oppose; to be against; to object to
HSK 3
opponent / rival / competitor / (well-matched) adversary / match
HSK 3
to oppose / to set sth against / to be antagonistic to / antithetical / relative opposite / opposing / diametrical
HSK 5
to correspond (to); to be equivalent to; to be a counterpart to
HSK 5
to answer; to reply / to handle; to deal with / response
HSK 6
face to face
HSK 6
to face; to confront
HSK 3
(of mountains etc) to stand facing each other / (fig.) to confront each other
HSK 7-9
external / foreign / pertaining to external or foreign (affairs)
HSK 6
to target; to focus on; to be aimed at or against; in response to
HSK 4
rhyming couplet / pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
to be ashamed to face (sb) / to feel bad about having failed (sb)
base pair (molecular biology)
The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)
symmetry / symmetrical
HSK 7-9
confrontation / contest / showdown
dialogue (in a movie or a play)
HSK 7-9
to play go, chess etc
HSK 7-9
theory of relativity
to contrast / to compare / to place side by side for comparison (as parallel texts) / to check
HSK 7-9
relatively / opposite / to resist / to oppose / relative / vis-a-vis / counterpart
HSK 7-9
to disagree / I can't agree with that.
not to let sb down / to treat sb fairly / be worthy of
HSK 7-9
relative density
one-to-one; one-on-one
to pair off (for a confrontation)
foreign relations
to look at each other
countermeasure for dealing with a situation
HSK 7-9
opposite bank (of a body of water)
not in good condition / wrong / fishy
adversary / opponent
a match made in heaven; a perfect couple
rival; competitor
to aim at / to target / to point at / to be directed at / registration / alignment (mechanical engineering)
HSK 7-9
relatively speaking / comparatively speaking
HSK 7-9
lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it / to take appropriate steps
English-Chinese parallel text
to verify accounting records
ground-to-air missile
foreign trade
to check / to verify / to audit / to examine
HSK 7-9
internal / national / domestic (policy)
right or wrong? / Is it right? / OK, yes? (colloquial)
(policy etc) towards China
reserved seat; assigned seat
back to back
hostile / enemy (factions) / combative
Correct! / Oh, that's right, ... (when one suddenly remembers sth one wanted to mention) / Oh, by the way, ...
lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom) / fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience / to cast pearls before swine / caviar to the general / to preach to deaf ears / to talk over sb's head
to oppose each other with equal harshness (idiom); tit for tat / measure for measure
HSK 7-9
to fit one into the other / to bring two things into contact
suitable; to one's liking / to get along together
color contrast
(psychology) contrastive association
the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom) / (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match
HSK 7-9
to serve as foil to one another
special relativity
supersymmetry
foreign policy
intercom / walkie-talkie
to one's taste / to one's liking
bilateral talks
enemy (idiom); opponent / arch-enemy
hedge fund
to exchange / to swap
to set oneself against / to oppose / to make a pair
HSK 7-9
University of International Business and Economics
pair of aces (in dominoes) / double one
proofreader / to proofread / to calibrate
to look face to face
to be left speechless / unable to respond
opposition (political) party
control group
(meteorology) troposphere
intercom
(loanword) party
dual / duality / antithesis / coupled phrases (as rhetorical device) / spouse
to join up / to dock / a joint (between components)
logarithm
able to reply quickly and fluently (idiom); having a ready answer
relative address (computing)
a profit equal to the amount one invested / (math.) involution
Tsushima Strait, between Japan and South Korea
to scrutinize / to examine / to check
as far as I'm concerned
kilobase pair (molecular biology)

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