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HSK
open-minded / humble
HSK 5
modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong)
virtual image
to boast / to brag / boastful / exaggerative / pompous / bombastic
modest / self-effacing / to make modest remarks
HSK 6
to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
HSK 7-9
to play tricks / to deceive
(idiom) it's been a worthwhile trip
a person who is in poor health cannot handle sth so strong as a tonic
nominal position
(idiom) to live up to one's famous name; its reputation is well deserved
false; phony; sham
HSK 7-9
(coll.) all show and no substance
virtual environment
to imagine; to make up / fictitious; theoretical; hypothetical / (computing) to emulate / (computing) virtual
HSK 7-9
(linguistics) function word
false / hypocritical / artificial / sham
HSK 7-9
to feel guilty as a thief (idiom); to have sth on one's conscience
weak / in poor health
HSK 7-9
lacking in confidence / diffident / to have a guilty conscience
to have an undeserved reputation (idiom)
imaginary / illusory
HSK 7-9
false
depletion of the spleen (Chinese medicine)
(idiom) to have no basis in fact; to be the product of sb's imagination
to reserve a seat for sb (idiom)
empty formality
that is true
false friendship; hypocritical show of affection
virtual reality (Tw)
(idiom) to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength
dotted line / dashed line / (math.) imaginary line
to exist in name only / empty shell / useless (idiom)
to take advantage of weakness
lit. a banquet with no empty seats / full house / capacity crowd / standing room only
to make up / fabrication / fictional / imaginary
HSK 7-9
to enter by exploiting a weak spot (idiom); to take advantage of a lapse
fiction
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
light and airy / floating
hollow / emptiness / meaningless
HSK 7-9
dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality
(idiom) you cannot always trust what you hear, but seeing is believing
to fritter away (one's time)
subjunctive mood (grammar)
virtual connection
to believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself. / It ain't necessarily so.
looks impressive but is worthless (idiom) / not as good as it looks / a reputation with no substance
(idiom) stay clear of the enemy's main force and strike at his weak points
to reserve a seat / to leave a position vacant
to misreport / fraudulent report
virtual reality
virtual network
one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春 each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁
vain
null hypothesis (statistics)
Permanent Virtual Circuit / PVC
vanity
Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜
to feel weak / to be diffident
what is true and what is false / (to get to know) the real situation
vanity
imaginary reputation / empty fame
false reputation
tricky and hypocritical
deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated
(intentionally) mysterious; arcane
virtual private network (VPN)
illusory; imaginary; fanciful
void / hollow / empty
with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be
(TCM) consumptive disease, chronic deficiency disorder due to impaired function of inner organs, deficiency of qi, blood, yin and yang / asthenia
to partially obscure / (of a door, gate or window) slightly open; ajar; not fully shut; unlocked / (of a jacket or shirt) unbuttoned
virtual private network (VPN)
to feign civility (idiom)
Switched Virtual Circuit / SVC
to let correct ideology guide practical work (idiom)
imaginary number
Akasagarbha Bodhisattva
hard to tell if it's real or sham
to discuss matters of principle (as opposed to concrete issues)
deficiency of yang 陽|阳 (TCM)
fabricated
an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy (idiom)
modest and studious (idiom)
background blurring (photography)
to waste time on worthless activities
virtual reality markup language (VRML) (computing)
nothingness
to falsely or exaggeratedly label (a product)
empty words / false words
receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom); modest and open-minded
deficiency of yin 陰|阴 (TCM)
false alarm / panic rumor / CL: 場|场
Taixu (famed Buddhist monk, 1890-1947)
great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos

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