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| | magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower / all the King's horses and all the King's men | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the fabled roc flies ten thousand miles (idiom) / one's future prospects are brilliant | HSK 7-9 |
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| | a thousand miles / a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers) / a long distance | |
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| | far away / thousands of miles; 10,000 li | |
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| | ten thousand crags and torrents (idiom); the trials and tribulations of a long journey / a long and difficult road | |
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| | thousand jin 斤 (pounds) of gold / money and riches / (honorific) invaluable (support) / (honorific) daughter | |
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| | Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer | |
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| | thousand (banker's anti-fraud numeral) | |
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| | ten thousand houses or households | |
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| | Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights | |
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| | hundred thousand | |
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| | lit. a thousand mile journey begins with the first step / fig. big accomplishments come from an accumulation of little achievements made one by one | |
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| | thousands of purples and reds (idiom); a blaze of color / fig. a profusion of flourishing trades | |
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| | over ten thousand / fig. untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands | |
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| | a thousand years / your birthday (honorific) | |
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| | lit. a thousand pounds hangs by a thread (idiom) / fig. (at the) critical; perilous (moment) | |
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| | lit. ten thousand mile horse / fine steed | |
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| | the lingering death / the death of a thousand cuts (old form of capital punishment) | |
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| | the thousands place (or column) in the decimal system | |
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| | lit. (like) ten thousand horses galloping (idiom) / fig. going full steam ahead | |
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| | lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands | |
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| | one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom) / (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect / each word is highly valued | |
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| | make light of traveling a thousand li / go to the trouble of traveling a long distance | |
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| | tens of thousands / numerous | |
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| | lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom) / fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline / to take a dive | |
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| | lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom) / fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless | |
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| | lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money / extremely wealthy / loaded | |
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| | (idiom) one man guarding the pass can prevent the passage of ten thousand | |
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| | many things waiting to be done (idiom) / a thousand things to do | |
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| | ten thousand strings of cash / very wealthy / millionaire | |
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| | lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); to throw away money recklessly / extravagant | |
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| | lit. to have one's heart pierced by thousands of arrows (idiom) / fig. overcome with sorrow / fig. to lambaste; to rip sb to shreds | |
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| | thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive / once you've seen one, you've seen them all | |
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| | lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); to throw away money recklessly / extravagant | |
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| | lit. ten thousand fathoms / fig. extremely high or deep / lofty / bottomless | |
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| | thousands | |
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| | ten thousand deaths will not prevent me (idiom); ready to risk life and limb to help out | |
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| | thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say / talking nonstop | |
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| | (coll.) one thousand or almost one thousand | |
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| | a match for ten thousand enemies | |
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| | (Internet slang) ten thousand (abbr. for 萬|万) | |
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| | reflect a thousand times and you can still make a mistake (idiom); to err is human | |
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| | thousands of horses, all mute (idiom); no-one dares to speak out / an atmosphere of political oppression | |
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| | a promise worth one thousand in gold (idiom); a promise that must be kept | |
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| | many things waiting to be done (idiom) / a thousand things to do | |
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| | lit. my worn-out broom, a thousand in gold (idiom); fig. sentimental value / I wouldn't be parted with it for anything. | |
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| | one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom); valuable advice / words of enormous weight | |
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| | ten thousand people / all the people / everyman | |
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| | thousand miles distant | |
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| | perpetual calendar / ten thousand year calendar / Islamic calendar introduced to Yuan China by Jamal al-Din 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁 | |
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| | Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold, early Tang compendium of herbal medicine by Sun Simiao 孫思邈|孙思邈 | |
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| | Wang Ximeng (c. 1096-c. 1119), Song artist, probably teenage prodigy who died young, painter of Thousand Miles of Landscape 千里江山 | |
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| | lit. read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles (idiom) / fig. acquire knowledge from study and wisdom from practical experience | |
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| | lit. four ounces can move a thousand catties (idiom) / fig. to achieve much with little effort | |
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| | Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold, early Tang compendium of herbal medicine by Sun Simiao 孫思邈|孙思邈 | |
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| | lit. a wise person reflecting a thousand times can still make a mistake (idiom); fig. nobody is infallible | |
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| | lit. Train an army for a thousand days to use it for an hour. (idiom); fig. extensive preparation eventually pays off | |
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| | Kezil thousand-Buddha grotto in Baicheng 拜城, Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang | |
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| | lit. good deeds do not go beyond the door, evil deeds spread a thousand miles / a good deed goes unnoticed, but scandal spreads fast (idiom) | |
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| | evil deeds spread a thousand miles (idiom); scandal spreads like wildfire | |
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| | Sun Simiao (c. 581-682), doctor and herbalist of the Sui and Tang dynasty, author of Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold 千金要方 | |
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| | several tens of thousands / many thousand | |
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| | a match for ten thousand enemies | |
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| | (archaic) a state with a thousand chariots (to fight a war) – a powerful state | |
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| | thousand island dressing | |
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| | the ten thousands place (or column) in the decimal system | |
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| | lit. ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains / a vast territory (idiom) | |
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| | first line of the Thousand Character Classic 千字文 | |
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| | a thousand things remain to be done (idiom) / numerous tasks remain to be undertaken | |
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| | a thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet (idiom) / when you're with close friends, you can let your hair down | |
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| | fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home | |
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| | to be able to plan victory from a thousand miles away (idiom) | |
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| | lit. train an army for a thousand days to use it for one morning (idiom) / fig. extensive preparation eventually pays off | |
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| | lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress | |
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| | a promise worth one thousand in gold (idiom); a promise that must be kept | |
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| | to number in the thousands | |
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| | the hundred thousands place (or column) in the decimal system | |
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| | a thousand tries leads to one success (idiom, humble expr.); Even without any notable ability on my part, I may still get it right sometimes by good luck. | |
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| | Easy to raise an army of one thousand, but hard to find a good general. (idiom) | |
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| | even if you build a thousand-league awning for it, every banquet must come to an end (idiom) | |
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| | can't be bought for one thousand in gold (idiom) | |
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| | lit. at home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort, but spending a day away from home can be challenging (idiom) / fig. there's no place like home | |
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| | several thousand | |
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| | Kumutula thousand-Buddha grotto in Kuqa, Xinjiang | |
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| | lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands | |
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| | lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands | |
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| | hundreds / a large number / lit. by the hundreds and thousands | |
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| | one who does not fear the death of thousand cuts will dare to unhorse the emperor (proverb) / to a fearless person, no fence is high enough | |
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| | thousands (of sth) | |
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| | the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, in the Turpan Basin, Xinjiang | |
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| | to face a thousand pointing fingers with a cool scowl (citation from Lu Xun) / to treat with disdain / to defy | |
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| | in different poses and with different expressions / in thousands of postures (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) to cut up sb's body into thousands of pieces (a hyperbolic threat) | |
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| | ten thousand or almost ten thousand | |
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| | hundreds and thousands of mountains | |
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| | World Wide Web (WWW) / lit. ten-thousand dimensional net covering heaven and earth / term coined by China News Digest and abbr. to 萬維網|万维网 | |
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