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  *膽* | 膽* | *膽
gall bladder / courage / guts / gall / inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)
HSK 5
brazen / audacious / outrageous / bold / daring / fearless
HSK 5
cowardice / timid
HSK 5
gentian violet C25H30ClN3 / crystal violet
courage / nerve / guts
HSK 7-9
(idiom) nervous; fearful; on edge
HSK 7-9
panic-stricken
timidity / timid / cowardly
HSK 7-9
courage / boldness / guts
(idiom) chicken-hearted; gutless
to tremble with fear (idiom) / scared witless
to act boldly
gall / bile
devoid of fear (idiom) / intrepid
to get one’s courage up / to embolden
HSK 7-9
courageous
daring / bold / audacious
rare food / ambrosia (delicacy)
openly and without fear / brazenly
boldness; daring
lit. to open one's liver and drip gall (idiom); wholehearted loyalty
hear the wind and lose gall (idiom); terror-stricken at the news
courage and resource
fullness for the bold, famine for the timid (idiom)
solitary hero / maverick
reckless / extremely daring
coward
biliverdin
cholesterol
bile duct
(courteous) to be so bold as to
lit. heart alarmed, trembling in fear (idiom); prostrate with fear / scared witless
to tremble with fear
courage / bravery
daring / presumptuous / daredevil
boldness in pursuing one's sexual urges
gallstone colic
frightening / frightened (idiom)
bile duct
snake gall (used in TCM)
to eat bear heart and leopard gall (idiom) / to pluck up some courage
solitary hero / maverick
gallstone
to proceed with sth even though scared; to put on a brave face
rough gentian / Japanese gentian (Gentiana scabra)
bilirubin
(coll.) bold / brazen / to have a lot of nerve
courage
to be perverse and suggestive towards the opposite sex, but shrinking back when provoked to act on it / to have perverted thoughts but no guts to actually do it / to be all talk and no action
Conyza blinii
gallbladder
to dare (negative connotation) / to have the audacity to (do sth)
bilirubin
outrageously bold in one's lust / debauched (idiom)
to fear / to be terrified
panic-stricken / scared out of one's wits
lit. red-bellied devotion (idiom); wholehearted loyalty / to serve sb with body and soul
inner container (e.g. the rice pot inside a rice cooker, the vacuum bottle inside a thermos, the tank inside a hot water heater, the bladder of a football)
to be scared stiff
to be scared out of one's wits
acetylcholine ACh (amine related to vitamin B complex)
the vacuum bottle within the outer case of a thermos
gallstone
lit. to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾踐|勾践, in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom) / fig. to maintain one's resolve for revenge
extremely daring (idiom) / foolhardy
in mortal fear (idiom)
to pour out one's heart (idiom)
bear gall (used in TCM)
choline esterase (ChE), hydrolyzing enzyme in blood plasma
individually courageous
courage and insight
gallbladder
gallstone
(idiom) to be completely honest and sincere
to be scared out of one's wits (idiom)
to be scared out of one's wits / to scare stiff
courageous / bold
choline (amine related to vitamin B complex)
bold and courageous hero (idiom)
sea urchin
cowardly
to treat one another with absolute sincerity (idiom); to show total devotion
to be frightened to death


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