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everyone / influential family / great expert
HSK 2
everyone present / the whole audience / across-the-board / unanimously / whole duration (of a competition or match)
HSK 3
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all / everyone / each / widespread / harmonious
HSK 4
to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable
HSK 5
(idiom) as everyone knows
HSK 7-9
lit. Sima Zhao's intentions are obvious to everyone (idiom) / fig. an open secret
(pron) everyone / Ladies and Gentlemen / Sirs
HSK 6
everyone / every person
understood by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name
HSK 7-9
lit. when a rat crosses the street, people chase it down (idiom) / fig. everyone detests a lowlife
to consider everyone else beneath one (idiom); so arrogant that no-one else matters / condescending / to go about with one's nose in the air
HSK 7-9
to the satisfaction of everyone
to say what everyone says (idiom) / to conform to what one perceives to be the majority view / to follow the herd
people (in general); people around the world; everyone
you and I / everyone / all of us (in society) / we (people in general)
to let everyone know / spread the word!
(of news etc) so thrilling that everyone is rejoicing and spreading the word (Internet slang) / acronym from 喜聞樂見|喜闻乐见, 大快人心, 普天同慶|普天同庆 and 奔走相告
employ one's talent to the fullest / everyone gives of their best
everybody / everyone / we all
everybody / everyone
each one; everyone
(coll.) everyone; all of us; you folks
(idiom) everyone is anxious / (of a group of people) to feel anxious
The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
lit. love the house and its crow (idiom); involvement with sb and everyone connected / Love me, love my dog.
everyone
HSK 7-9
widely known / on everyone's lips
(saying) everyone minds their own business
The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
everyone present applauds / universal acclaim / a standing ovation / to bring the house down
to treat everyone equally favorably (idiom); not to discriminate between people
equally true for (all the rest) / the same thing applies (for everyone)
taking everyone along, young and old / to look after the elderly and the young
employ one's talent to the fullest / everyone gives of their best / also written 人盡其才|人尽其才
to eat individual meals (rather than taking one's food from plates served to everyone at the table)
lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius) / you have sth to learn from everyone
everyone loves beauty (idiom)
(in elections for village committees in the PRC since the 1990s) unrestricted nomination, a type of election where 1. everyone in the community is eligible to nominate somebody 2. voting is done by writing the name of one's nominee on the ballot, and 3. one's nominee can be anyone in the community (Nominees who receive the highest number of votes may be thereby elected or, more often, presented as the candidates in a further round of voting.) / (in other contexts) selection of the best contender in a process open to all comers / (in the entertainment industry) open audition
mass / involving everyone / united / lit. to assemble the multitude
to announce to the world (idiom) / to make public / to let everyone know
(idiom) to announce to the world; to make public; to let everyone know
known to everyone
(idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically)
everyone has their likes and dislikes (idiom)
everyone / owner
(idiom) to keep on the right side of everyone (often at the expense of principle)
to disperse after a happy time (idiom) / everyone enjoys themselves to the full then party breaks up
to be praised by everyone
it's difficult to please everyone (idiom)
(idiom) in public; in front of everyone; openly (typically preceded by and followed by 之下)
inclusive; accessible and affordable for everyone
lit. for some things a foot may be too short, and for the other an inch will suffice (proverb) / fig. everyone has their strong and weak points / everything has its advantages and disadvantages
(dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom) / not to treat everyone equally favorably
it is everyone's duty
everyone gives their own view
lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy / to feel beleaguered
(idiom) to make everyone's lives better
to talk endlessly, annoying everyone
sb who tries to be on good terms with everyone
lit. one general, one order (idiom) / fig. every boss has their own rules / everyone has their own way of doing things
letting everyone have their say / taking people's views into account / free expression of different views / (contrasted with 一言堂)
lit. paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story) (idiom) / fig. (of a product) to sell like hotcakes
none lacking / none missing / everything is there / everyone without exception
HSK 7-9
to suspect everyone / overly suspicious
known by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name
none doesn't / there is none who isn't / everyone
everyone has their likes and dislikes / there is no accounting for taste / chacun son goût
as everyone can appreciate (idiom); clear to all / unarguable
universally admired / highly esteemed by everyone
just a while before / not so long ago / everyone can remember when..
sb who tries to be on good terms with everyone
communal dining where one takes one's food from dishes served to everyone at the table (contrasted with 分餐)
nobody is perfect / everyone has their defect
to massacre everyone in a captured city
to make a remark that startles everyone present (idiom) / (of a remark) startling
to be manifest for everyone to see
both jokers, the unbeatable play in the card game "dou dizhu" 鬥地主|斗地主 / (fig.) powerful move that stuns everyone; a total game-changer
to alarm everyone / to scandalize the public
to be known to everyone
everyone comments disapprovingly (idiom)
known to everyone
treating everyone the same, regardless of individual differences / one-size-fits-all approach / (typesetting) block paragraphs (no indenting, and blank space between each paragraph)
"universal love", principle advocated by Mozi 墨子, stressing that people should care for everyone equally
to everyone's delight and satisfaction
understood by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name
everyone participates in reforms (idiom) / to replace the old with new / to reform and start afresh
to blindly follow suit (idiom) / to imitate slavishly / to do what everyone else is doing
understood by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name
education for everyone, irrespective of background
close and distant, rich and poor (idiom); everyone / all possible relations
lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom) / fig. everyone makes mistakes / even the best fall down sometimes
to alarm everyone / to scandalize the public
meal cooked in a large pot / communal meal / (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
the masses rise to attack it (idiom); Everyone is against the idea. / universally abhorrent
Everyone makes mistakes (idiom)
lit. bystanders killed the king's horse (idiom) (based on an ancient story in which people along the road cheered a horseman on as he galloped past, until the horse died of exhaustion) / fig. beware of becoming complacent when everyone is cheering you on


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