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| | to go forward / to advance / to go in / to enter / to put in / to submit / to take in / to admit / (math.) base of a number system / classifier for sections in a building or residential compound | HSK 1 |
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| | to shift to an earlier date / to do sth ahead of time / in advance | HSK 3 |
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| | (of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway / (of people) to carry out; to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc) / (of an army etc) to be on the march; to advance | HSK 2 |
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| | in advance / before it happens (cf preventative measures) / forestalling | |
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| | to introduce sb, putting in a good word for them in advance | |
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| | in advance; before the event | |
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| | to schedule in advance | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (military) to march; to advance / (fig.) to enter and compete in a new market, field, region or arena | |
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| | to sell in advance | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to start off before the others; to precede / to proceed in advance | |
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| | think again and again before acting (idiom); consider carefully in advance | |
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| | lit. eating away next year's food in advance / fig. to dip into the next month's check / live now, pay later | |
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| | to advance to a higher-level position; to be promoted to a higher position in a new department | |
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| | to advance dauntlessly in wave upon wave (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to know in advance | |
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| | to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom); to innovate / to go beyond old ideas / advancing all the time | |
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| | preliminary notification / to announce in advance | |
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| | to state in advance / preset / given | |
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| | to pay in advance / prepaid | |
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| | to advance in rank / promotion / advancement | |
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| | to make a significant advance in one's career (idiom) / to get one's big break | |
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| | beforehand; in advance | HSK 7-9 |
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| | no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation | |
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| | forward delivery apartment / unfinished housing to be paid for in advance by the buyer and then completed within certain time frame | |
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| | (banking) to overdraw / to take out an overdraft / an overdraft / to overspend (i.e. expenditure in excess of revenue) / (old) to draw one's wage in advance / (fig.) to exhaust (one's enthusiasm, energy etc) / to damage a natural resource through overuse | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the hero has plans already laid (idiom); to have plans ready in advance / forewarned is forearmed | |
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| | to pay in advance / to get payment in advance | |
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| | to shrink back in fear (idiom); too cowardly to advance | |
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| | lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經｜易经); impossible to advance or to retreat / without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation | |
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| | to advance / in advance / beforehand / to prepare | |
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| | (after a sum has been paid in advance) to refund (in case of overpayment) or be reimbursed (in case of underpayment) | |
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| | no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation | |
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| | the time before a certain date; in advance; beforehand; premature / initial period | |
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| | (usu. of troops) in advance; in the vanguard / previously / in front; placed ahead of others | |
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| | in front / in advance of the field | |
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| | the hero has plans already laid (idiom); to have plans ready in advance / forewarned is forearmed | |
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| | to set out in advance to make arrangements (board, lodging etc) / (military) to dispatch an advance party | |
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| | lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經｜易经); impossible to advance or to retreat / without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation | |
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| | premeditated / to plan sth in advance (esp. a crime) | |
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| | no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); at a loss / in a hopeless situation | |
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| | no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation | |
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| | Huang He Inundated Area, the area flooded in 1938 when dikes along the Yellow River were destroyed in an attempt to halt the advance of Japanese troops / (historically) Huang He floodable area | |
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| | can't advance or retreat (idiom); no room for maneuver / stalled / in a dilemma / stuck in a difficult position | |
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