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| | Bayes (name) / Thomas Bayes (1702-1761), English mathematician and theologian | |
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| | (bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese) | |
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| | China Daily (an English language newspaper) | |
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| | James Legge (1815-1897), Scottish Protestant missionary in Qing China and translator of the Chinese classics into English | |
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| | home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 1 |
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| | quilt / to cover (with) / (literary) to suffer (a misfortune) / used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb) / (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊｜被旅游 to "go on a trip") | HSK 3 |
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| | medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand | |
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| | to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) | HSK 1 |
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| | to show off (loanword, from English "show") / to grandstand / to perform in a stage show | |
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| | English (language) | HSK 2 |
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| | Sino-British / Chinese-English | |
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| | Alan Turing (1912-1954), English mathematician, considered as the father of computer science | |
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| | (slang) to cheer sb on / to show one's support / ("call" is pronounced approximately like English "call") | |
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| | the (rightful) emperor / "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation) | |
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| | TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) (Tw) | |
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| | to translate into (Chinese, English etc) | |
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| | indefinite article (e.g. English a, an) | |
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| | Oxfordshire (English county) | |
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| | TEM-8 or Test for English Majors-Band 8, highest level proficiency test for English major students in PRC (abbr. for 英語專業八級考試｜英语专业八级考试) | |
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| | present participle (in English grammar) | |
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| | British-style; English-style | |
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| | English Language Teaching (ELT) / studying and teaching English | |
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| | English translation | |
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| | General English Proficiency Test (GEPT), commissioned by Taiwan's Ministry of Education in 1999 | |
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| | United Kingdom / British / England / English / abbr. for 英國｜英国 | |
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| | Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist | |
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| | Robin Hood (English 12th century folk hero) | |
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| | Brokeback Mountain, 2005 English-language film by Ang Lee 李安 | |
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| | Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡·愛｜简·爱 | |
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| | Chinese and English two-way translation | |
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| | Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist / also written 簡·奧斯汀｜简·奥斯汀 | |
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| | English-Chinese | |
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| | Lincolnshire (English county) | |
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| | a can (loanword from English "tin") | |
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| | American English | |
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| | Joan of Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English | |
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| | English horn | |
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| | TOEFL / Test of English as a Foreign Language | |
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| | Christian Bale (1974-), English actor | |
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| | Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集 | |
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| | Leicestershire, English county | |
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| | (Internet slang) to have a simplistic view of sth (transcription of "too young, too simple" – English words spoken by Jiang Zemin 江澤民｜江泽民 in chastizing Hong Kong reporters in 2000) | |
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| | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English Romantic poet | |
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| | character used in Taiwan as a substitute for a real name (like "X" in English) / variant of 〇 | |
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| | deductible (the part of an insurance claim paid by the insured) / (UK English) excess | |
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| | Loughborough, English city | |
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| | Yorkshire (English region) | |
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| | England (historical loan, from English) | |
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| | Hertfordshire (English county) | |
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| | apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他， 誰也沒來｜除了他， 谁也没来 "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語， 他也會法語｜除了英语， 他也会法语 "in addition to English, he also knows French") / (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 + A + 就是 + B, "either A or B") | HSK 3 |
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| | Tennyson (name) / Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet | |
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| | Maugham (family name) / W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English writer | |
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| | Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English / also called Jehanne Darc, the Maid or Orleans, Joan of Arc or St Joan | |
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| | Cavendish (name) / Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), English nobleman and pioneer experimental scientist | |
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| | milkshake (Note: 昔 is loaned from English "shake" via Cantonese 昔, pr. sik1) | |
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| | Milton (name) / John Milton (1608-1674), English republican writer and poet, author of Paradise Lost | |
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| | English Channel | |
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| | Chinese, math & English (school subjects) | |
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| | Berkshire (English county) | |
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| | IELTS (International English Language Testing System) | |
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| | surname Wordsworth / William Wordsworth (1770–1850), English romantic poet | |
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| | Eton public school (English elite school) | |
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| | Wiltshire (English county) | |
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| | Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977), English movie actor and director | |
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| | Hawkins or Hawking / Stephen Hawking (1942-2018), English theoretical physicist | |
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| | Henry V (1387-1422), English warrior king, victor of Agincourt / History of Henry V by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞｜莎士比亚 | |
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| | inch (English) | |
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| | pidgin English | |
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| | (Internet slang) transcription of "not at all" – English words in a song promoting the 2008 Beijing Olympics sung by Huang Xiaoming 黃曉明｜黄晓明, who became a laughing stock in China because his pronunciation was perceived as embarrassingly bad / to be a laughing stock / to make a fool of oneself (i.e. equivalent to 鬧笑話｜闹笑话) | |
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| | Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English author | |
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| | Hook or Hooke (name) / Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor | |
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| | Vauxhall (English car brand and city) | |
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| | Dickens (name) / Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist | |
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| | Buckinghamshire (English county) | |
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| | English-Chinese parallel text | |
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| | easy / amiable / to change / to exchange / prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible" | |
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| | Lester or Leicester (name) / Leicester, English city in East Midlands | |
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| | Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857–1928), Malaysian writer known for his English-language works and defense of Qing dynasty monarchy | |
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| | anti-English | |
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| | Chinese-English | |
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| | (Hong Kong) secondary school that uses English as a medium of instruction ("EMI school") | |
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| | Nottinghamshire (English county) | |
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| | George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician, philosopher and logician, author of The Laws of Thought and inventor of Boolean algebra | |
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| | five-card stud (card game) (from English "show hand") | |
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| | English-Chinese | |
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| | anglophone / English department | |
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| | Strait of Calais in the English channel / Strait of Dover / Pas-de-Calais, département of France | |
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| | TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) | |
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| | Robert Boyle (1627-1691), English chemist | |
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| | craze for learning English | |
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| | Lancashire (English county) | |
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| | English corner / spoken English practice group | |
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| | Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) or Dr Johnson, English writer and lexicographer | |
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| | Henry Hudson (?-1611?), English explorer and navigator | |
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| | Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集 | |
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| | Colin Firth, English actor (1960-) | |
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| | Essex (English county) | |
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| | (Tw) McDonald's McMuffin or similar breakfast sandwich made with an English muffin | |
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| | transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters) / characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown) / transcription (linguistics) / to transcribe phonetic symbols | |
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