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to have spare time / free from work / it's not important / it's nothing / never mind
HSK 1
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  *卖* | 卖* | *卖
to sell / to betray / to spare no effort / to show off or flaunt
HSK 2
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  *长* | 长* | *长
long / (bound form) length / (bound form) strong point; forte / (bound form) to be good at / (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4])
HSK 2
convenient; suitable / to facilitate; to make things easy / having money to spare / (euphemism) to relieve oneself
HSK 2
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort
HSK 3
spare time / free time
HSK 3
in one's spare time / outside working hours / amateur (historian etc)
HSK 4
to strive one's hardest; to spare no effort
HSK 4
to do everything one can / to spare no effort / to strive
HSK 7-9
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  *饶* | 饶* | *饶
rich / abundant / exuberant / to add for free / to throw in as bonus / to spare / to forgive / despite / although
HSK 7-9
to forgive / to pardon / to spare
HSK 7-9
not stint / not spare / not hesitate (to do sth) / not scruple (to do sth)
HSK 7-9
reserve / spare / alternate / backup
HSK 7-9
authorized full-service car dealership (offering sales, spare parts, after-sales service and customer support)
(of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time / a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet) / to spare some time for a separate task / to cut a corpse into pieces / to pull a body apart by the four limbs / parturition
pork chop / pork cutlet / spare ribs / (coll.) skinny person
to be saved from / to be spared (something)
(Buddhism) to be reincarnated; (fig.) to be lenient; to spare sb / to have more children than allowed under family planning policy
spare parts / odds and ends
to bend to a task and spare no effort (idiom); striving to the utmost
spare parts
to reconnoiter; to case the joint / to cut it fine; to arrive with no time to spare / to dance to the beat
to avoid suffering / to avoid meeting (a fatal accident) / spared
not to overlook, nor spare (idiom); unwilling to forgive / to treat severely without listening to excuses
to bend to a task and spare no effort unto one's dying day (idiom); striving to the utmost one's whole life / with every breath in one's body, unto one's dying day
spare tire / (slang) fallback guy (or girl)
spare money
to cause no trouble / to be spared worry / worry-free
to relent (to spare sb's feelings) / to show mercy or forgiveness / to forbear / lenient
(idiom) to have one's hands full managing one's own affairs / too busy to spare time for anything extra
lit. unwilling to spare a single hair (idiom) / fig. extremely stingy
lean / thin / spare
to spare no effort
lit. to spare or to kill, to give or take away (idiom) / (fig.) control over the fate of others
to tolerate is to nurture an evildoer (idiom); spare the rod and spoil the child
to forgive / to spare
to take some time out / to make use of a spare moment
richly provided for / having enough and to spare
to spare no efforts
lit. spare valor for sale (idiom); fig. after former successes, still ready for more work / not resting on one's laurels
leisure; spare time / (of a person) free; unoccupied / (of equipment, rooms etc) unoccupied; unused; idle; vacant; spare
lit. not even chickens and dogs are spared (idiom) / fig. mass slaughter
to spare / to forgive
spare part; component
life buoy; life belt / (jocular) flab; spare tire
swim ring / swim tube / (fig.) (coll.) spare tire (roll of fat around the waist)
where it is possible to let people off, one should spare them (idiom); anyone can make mistakes, forgive them when possible
three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom) / spare the rod, spoil the child
spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)
“surrender and your life will be spared”
to spare no effort / to devote all one's energies
no time to spare (idiom)
spare-time education / evening classes
to bend to a task and spare no effort (idiom); striving to the utmost / same as 鞠躬盡瘁|鞠躬尽瘁
spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)
to spare no pains or effort (idiom); to do one's utmost
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  *倅* | 倅* | *倅
auxiliary / spare / deputy / second / sub-
machine parts or tools kept in reserve / spare parts
to spare no effort (idiom); to do one's utmost
(idiom) to spare no effort; to do one's utmost
spare part / component
to spare sb's life


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