| | but / yet / however / while / to go back / to decline / to retreat / nevertheless / even though | HSK 4 |
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| | to return to / to retreat / regression (statistics) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to retreat; to withdraw / to reject; to return (sth) / to decline | HSK 3 |
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| | to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to withdraw troops / to retreat | |
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| | rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠｜武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld | |
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| | lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat / to burn one's boats | |
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| | (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法) to deploy one's troops in such a way that there is no possibility of retreat, so that they will fight for their lives and win the battle; to fight desperately when confronted with mortal danger; to find a way to emerge from a dire situation | |
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| | to advance or retreat / knowing when to come and when to leave / a sense of propriety | |
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| | escape route / retreat route / communication lines to the rear / alternative course of action / room for maneuver | |
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| | to follow up a victory and press home the attack / to pursue retreating enemy | |
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| | to retreat | |
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| | to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back | |
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| | to follow up a victory / to pursue retreating enemy | |
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| | lit. shut the door and beat the dog (idiom) / fig. seal off the enemy's avenue of retreat, then strike hard | |
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| | to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat | |
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| | to retreat / to shrink back | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to retreat / to withdraw troops / to recall troops / fig. to finish work / to wind up / to call it a day / used with negatives: the task is far from over | |
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| | to withdraw troops / to retreat | |
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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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| | 16-character formula, esp. Mao Zedong's mantra on guerrilla warfare: 敵進我退， 敵駐我擾， 敵疲我打， 敵退我追｜敌进我退， 敌驻我扰， 敌疲我打， 敌退我追 when the enemy advances we retreat; when the enemy makes camp we harass; when the enemy is exhausted we fight; and when the enemy retreats we pursue | |
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| | to retreat again and again in defeat / to suffer defeat after defeat | |
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| | (idiom, from Book of Songs) unable to advance or retreat | |
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| | to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat | |
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| | to work vaguely then retreat (idiom); sloppy and half-hearted / half-baked | |
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| | Long March (retreat of the Red Army 1934-1935) | |
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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 retreat in defeat | |
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| | (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽｜项羽, who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat) | |
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| | to hide / to retreat into privacy | |
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| | lit. to retreat ninety li (idiom) / fig. to shun; to assiduously avoid | |
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| | lit. the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom) / fig. the pot calls the kettle black | |
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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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| | Retreat and Reflection Garden in Tongli, Jiangsu | |
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| | Couple's Retreat Garden in Suzhou, Jiangsu | |
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| | to pull back (an army) / to retreat | |
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| | to advance or retreat, each has its rules (idiom from Zhuangzi); many translations are possible | |
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| | without a retreat route / caught in a dead end / having burned one's bridges | |
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| | to retreat into; to draw back into / (typography) to indent | |
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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 beat a gong / to sound the retreat | |
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| | lit. to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom) / fig. to back out of an awkward situation; to get out on finding out what it's really like | |
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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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| | to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back | |
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| | a way out / a way to retreat / leeway | |
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| | to work vaguely then retreat (idiom); sloppy and half-hearted / half-baked | |
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| | to retire / to withdraw / to retreat / to step down | |
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| | to withdraw / to leave / to retreat / to pull out | |
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| | to advance or retreat, each has its rules (idiom from Zhuangzi); many translations are possible | |
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| | to retreat and defend / to withdraw and maintain one's guard | |
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| | to retreat and scatter / to recede; to wane | |
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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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| | military dependents' village (community established in Taiwan for Nationalist soldiers and their dependents after the KMT retreated from the mainland in 1949) | |
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