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easy to learn
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  *学* | 学* | *学
to learn / to study / to imitate / science / -ology
HSK 1
to know from experience / to learn through experience / to realize / understanding / experience
HSK 3
to learn / to study
HSK 1
to learn through experience / experience / practiced / experienced
to find out / to learn of
HSK 7-9
to learn to read / able to read; literate
HSK 6
to learn; to master / institute; learned society; (scholarly) association
HSK 6
to draw on (others' experience) / to learn from (how others do things) / lesson to be learned (by observing others)
HSK 6
to learn is to know one's ignorance (the Book of Rites 禮記|礼记)
with familiarity you learn the trick (idiom); practice makes perfect
to learn from history (idiom)
entrance door / to enter a door / to learn the basics of a subject; introduction (to a subject); (attributive) entry-level
HSK 5
to journey to India on a quest for the Buddhist scriptures / to learn by studying another's experience
HSK 7-9
Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes.
to learn / to acquire (some skill through practice) / acquisition
not feel ashamed to ask and learn from one's subordinates
HSK 7-9
to learn (sth); to learn about
no end to learning (idiom); There's always something new to study. / You live and learn.
anxious to learn / keen for knowledge
to learn of (an event) / to hear about (sth)
to study / to learn from a master / (pupil's first person pronoun) I, your student
to learn by rote / to cram
to learn by heart; to memorize
self-taught / to learn without a teacher (idiom)
to learn by rote / to mechanically memorize
To learn without thinking is confusing, to think without learning is dangerous (Confucius)
"learn from the foreigners in order to gain command of them", idea advocated by Wei Yuan 魏源
lit. cutting and polishing (idiom) / fig. to learn by exchanging ideas or experiences
to recite (a text) from memory; to learn a text by heart / to back; to endorse (a political candidate, product, check etc) / backing; endorsement
to hear suddenly / to learn of sth unexpectedly
to compare notes; to learn from one another
to learn one's lesson the hard way
to proceed by trial and error; to learn by making mistakes
to learn on the job / to be on probation
(coll.) to learn one's lesson; to have enough brains to learn from one's mistakes
lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius) / you have sth to learn from everyone
(Tw) to draw on (others' experience) / to learn from (how others do things) / lesson to be learned (by observing others)
to learn of sth / to find out / to get news
HSK 7-9
to learn to walk / (fig.) to learn sth, making unsteady progress / to get started on the learning curve
industrial tourism (visiting a place to learn about its local industries and their production processes)
easy to learn
to learn about / to be informed
to steal techniques; to learn secretly from sb else's skills or methods
to learn a skill or art
HSK 7-9
If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken (idiom); A woman should follow whatever her husband orders. / We must learn to accept the people around us.
lit. warning to the following cart (idiom); don't follow the track of an overturned cart / fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor / learn from past mistake / once bitten twice shy
sea of learning, no horizon (idiom); no limits to what one still has to learn / ars longa, vita brevis
to learn to read / able to read; literate
lit. the cart in front overturns, a warning to the following cart (idiom); fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor / learn from past mistake / once bitten twice shy
to learn by heart / to commit to memory / to remember / to memorize in silence
to remember / to bear in mind / to learn by heart
HSK 1
to creatively combine learning with usage / to learn and apply pragmatically
to enter a door / to go in / to learn the basics of a subject / to join one's husband's household upon marriage
to learn sth through hearsay; to get wind of sth
(PRC) teacher by negative example / sb from whom one can learn what not to do
One is never too old to learn. (idiom)
to be shocked to learn
(literary) to learn from and encourage each other
to learn sth over again / to review / to brush up / to revive (memories, friendship etc)
to abandon the old (Asian) ways and learn from Europe / refers to the ideas that led to the Meiji Restoration and Japan's subsequent colonization projects in Asia
(a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor / (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes
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  *背* | 背* | *背
the back of a body or object / to turn one's back / to hide something from / to learn by heart / to recite from memory / (slang) unlucky / hard of hearing
HSK 2
not ashamed to learn from subordinates (idiom)
to learn by rote
to learn from the ancients / to study the classic texts
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  *肄* | 肄* | *肄
to learn / to practice or study (old)
If sb has grasped the truth before you, take him as your teacher (Tang dynasty essayist Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈). / We should learn from one who knows the way.


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