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strikebreaker; scab; traitor to the working class
(dialect) sparrow
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thief; robber / (bound form) traitor; subversive / (bound form) evil; wicked / sly; shifty; devious / (literary) to harm; to injure / (coll.) extremely; insanely; damn (common in NE China and Taiwan)
HSK 7-9
much worse than having something stolen is when a thief has you in his sights (idiom)
thief
robber
to feel guilty as a thief (idiom); to have sth on one's conscience
evil intentions
lit. to board a pirate ship (idiom) / fig. to associate with criminals
(imperial China) rebel; traitor / (post-1949) enemy of the state; counter-revolutionary / (slang) dissident (used self-referentially, esp. in pro-democracy circles)
a traitor / a treacherous bandit
pirate version / bootleg
squid
vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
traitor
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
renegade / traitor
shifty gaze / furtive glance
(dialect) stingy / miserly / crafty / cunning
pirate
brigand
to catch a thief
bright / shiny / dazzling / glaring
cuttlefish
pirate ship / fig. venture of dubious merit / criminal gang / reactionary faction
lit. to acknowledge the bandit as one's father (idiom); fig. a complete betrayal / to sell oneself to the enemy
cat burglar / burglar who gains entrance by scaling walls / intruding enemy airman / air marauder
(derog.) Buddhist monk
insect that damages cereal crop seedlings / (lit. and fig.) vermin / a person harmful to the country and the people
rapist
(bird species of China) pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)
rebels and traitors (idiom) / general term for scoundrel
(idiom) to defeat the enemy by capturing their leader
to be a thief
One Piece (manga and anime)
(coll.) to be burglarized
lit. to mistakenly board a pirate ship / to embark on a hopeless adventure
habitual thief
to catch a thief by closing his escape route (idiom)
lit. in the presence of a monk, insult another monk, calling him a bald-headed bandit (saying) / fig. to insult indirectly; to criticize obliquely
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
confirmed thief
lit. a thief crying "Stop the thief!" (idiom) / fig. to accuse sb of a theft and try to sneak away oneself / to cover up one's misdeeds by shifting the blame onto others
(insult) brigand / swindler
(bird species of China) South Polar skua (Stercorarius maccormicki)
lit. to behave like a thief / furtive / underhand
renegade / traitor and bandit
usurper
shifty-eyed / crafty-looking (idiom)
traitor to the nation
lit. Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 and Cao Wei 曹魏 cannot coexist (idiom) / fig. two enemies cannot live under the same sky / (former KMT slogan against CCP) "gentlemen and thieves cannot coexist"
thieves' lair
(bird species of China) long-tailed jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus)
completely / utterly (dialect)
horse thief / (old) group of horse-mounted bandits
(bird species of China) parasitic jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus)


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