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enemy / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
unequalled / without rival / a paragon
HSK 7-9
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
to confront / to face the enemy
political opponent
lit. as if meeting a great enemy (idiom) / fig. cautious / with great preoccupation / with strict precaution
to aid the enemy (with arms, ammunition, supplies, money etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *敵* | 敵* | *敵
(bound form) enemy / (bound form) to be a match for; to rival / (bound form) to resist; to withstand
no match for / cannot beat
hostile / enemy (factions) / combative
to attack the enemy
enemy country
enemy defense / enemy garrison
enemy
mortal enemy / arch-enemy
(idiom) evenly matched
formidable opponent
having wealth equivalent to that of an entire nation (idiom) / extremely wealthy
enmity; hostility
unsurpassed / unparalleled
(idiom) to be faced with a formidable enemy
armed enemy of the nation / enemy of the Emperor / fig. championship challenger / contender opposing champion in sporting contest
anger against a common enemy (idiom); joined in opposition to the same adversary
(military) the enemy's rear / behind enemy lines
to collaborate with the enemy
to underestimate the enemy
the few are no match for the many / heavily outnumbered / facing impossible odds (idiom)
opposing force (in war games); hypothetical enemy (in strategic studies)
the enemy of the people / the class enemy (Marxism)
to convert an enemy into a friend (idiom)
a match for ten thousand enemies
enemy (agents) / (class) enemy
enemy troops / hostile forces / CL:
multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius) / heavily outnumbered / beaten by the weight of numbers
rival in love
Antichrist
remnant enemy troops
enemy
old foe / long-standing enemy
contradictions between ourselves and the enemy / Either you are for us or against us.
predator; natural enemy
old enemy
to be equal to / to be well-matched / rival
trichlorphon C4H8Cl3PO4, organic phosphate used as insecticide / also called dipterex
opponent / substantial adversary / worthy match / antagonist / in the enemy's hands
enemy occupied territory
Decis (insecticide brand)
hostile / malevolence / antagonism / to view as enemy / to stand against
to be invincible / unrivalled
to go over to the enemy / to defect
a match for ten thousand enemies
to resist the enemy
to antagonize people / to make an enemy of sb
(loanword) DDVP, aka dichlorvos (an organophosphate used as an insecticide)
enemy spy
the enemy ranks
enemy general; the opposing side's commander
enemy plane
front line (military)
enemy / foe
to rout the enemy
the situation of the enemy positions / intelligence about the enemy
(idiom) to be both friend and foe to each other; to have a friendly rivalry
pest / vermin / animal that is harmful to crops or to another species / enemy / predator
enemy camp
public enemy
rival
powerful enemy
to face the enemy / to meet an attack
enemy territory
hostility; antagonism / adversarial; hostile
hatred felt toward one's enemies
the enemy and us
rival productions (of the same opera in neighboring theaters)
enemy agents in our midst / reds under the beds
defensive tower / lookout tower / enemy radio station
(a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor / (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes
(idiom) to be attacked from the front and rear
(idiom) to fight the whole world
good will always triumph over evil (idiom)
to lure the enemy / to trap


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