| | letter / mail / CL: 封 / to trust / to believe / to profess faith in / truthful / confidence / trust / at will / at random | HSK 2 |
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| | to want; to need; to ask for / will; shall; about to / need to; should / if (same as 要是) / (bound form) important | HSK 1 |
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| | will / shall / to be going to | HSK 2 |
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| | (bound form) to walk; to go; to travel / (literary) trip; journey; visit / (bound form) temporary; makeshift / (bound form) current; in circulation / (bound form) to do; to perform / capable; competent / all right; OK!; will do / behavior; conduct (Taiwan pr. [xing4]) / (literary) about to; soon | HSK 1 |
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| | hard to avoid / difficult to escape from / will inevitably | HSK 4 |
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| | will; willpower; determination | HSK 5 |
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| | equivalent to 就可以 / can then (do sth) / can immediately (do sth) / (do sth) and that will suffice | HSK 7-9 |
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| | as one wishes / according to one's wishes / at will / voluntary / conscious | HSK 5 |
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| | will / shall / to be going to | HSK 5 |
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| | any / arbitrary / at will / at random | HSK 7-9 |
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| | dauntless / to summon up courage and determination / using extreme force of will | HSK 7-9 |
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| | certainly / must / will / necessarily | HSK 5 |
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| | to act against one's will / to have no alternative but to / to have to / to have no choice / must | HSK 7-9 |
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| | unity of will is an impregnable stronghold (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. when a person attains enlightenment and immortality, even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. when somebody attains a position of power and influence, their relatives and friends also benefit | |
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| | improbable / unlikely / will not (act, happen etc) / not able / not having learned to do sth / (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it / not at all | |
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| | study hard and every day you will improve (idiom) | |
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| | effort will undoubtedly lead to success (idiom) | |
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| | (saying) doing good deeds in secret will eventually bring rewards | |
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| | lit. (when a person attains enlightenment and immortality), even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. (when somebody attains a position of power and influence), their relatives and friends also benefit / (2nd half of the saying 一人得道, 雞犬升天|一人得道, 鸡犬升天) | |
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| | a cornered beast will still fight (idiom) / to fight like an animal at bay | |
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| | inevitably there will be | |
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| | (idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck | |
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| | He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects). / Smug concentration on the here and now will lead to future sorrow. | |
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| | lit. at whose hand will the deer die (idiom) / fig. who will emerge victorious | |
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| | the old man moves mountains (idiom); fig. where there's a will, there's a way | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be bound to / undoubtedly will | HSK 7-9 |
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| | public opinion / popular will / public will | HSK 6 |
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| | a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb) / (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe) | |
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| | grasp this fundamental point and all the rest will follow (idiom) | |
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| | Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢, with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi | |
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| | eternal glory / will never be forgotten | |
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| | the empty city stratagem (in which Zhuge Liang presents himself as unperturbed while making it evident that his city is undefended, hoping his adversary will suspect an ambush); double bluff | |
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| | popular feeling / the will of the people | |
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| | the rain will fall, the womenfolk will marry (idiom) / fig. the natural order of things / something you can't go against | |
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| | younger generations will do all right on their own (idiom) | |
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| | (in one's study) to focus on the topics one speculates will appear on the exam | |
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| | providence / the Will of Heaven | |
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| | lit. where water flows, a canal is formed (idiom) / fig. when conditions are right, success will follow naturally | |
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| | lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom) / fig. everybody's business is nobody's business / (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.) | |
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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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| | lit. cannot be done in one day (idiom) / fig. will take much time and effort to accomplish | |
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| | a real man, if he takes a hit, will seek to even the score (idiom) | |
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| | lit. there is nothing the determined person can't accomplish (idiom) / fig. persistence will overcome | |
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| | one who is not prepared to risk his child will never catch the wolf (proverb) / (fig.) one who is unwilling to take risks will not achieve great things | |
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| | lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom) / fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich | |
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| | when you teach someone, both teacher and student will benefit | |
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| | Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you. / Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost. | |
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| | even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb) | |
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| | Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually. | |
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| | lit. trifling destroys the will (idiom); infatuation with fine details prevents one making progress / excessive attention to trivia saps the will | |
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| | height; level; (music) pitch / relative superiority / propriety; discretion (usu. in the negative, e.g. 不知高低) / no matter what; just; simply (will not ..., must ... etc) / at long last | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. if thrown on the floor, it will make a sound (idiom) / fig. (of one's words) powerful and resonating / to have substance | |
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| | that's that; that's it; that will do | |
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| | auxiliary verb introducing future action: may (be able to) / will (cause) / should (enable) / going to | |
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| | long sleeves help one dance beautifully (idiom); money and power will help you in any occupation | |
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| | lit. if two tigers fight, one will get injured (idiom) / fig. if you start a war, someone is bound to get hurt | |
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| | Time that has passed will never come back. (idiom) | |
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| | malice / ill will | |
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| | a cornered dog will jump over the wall (idiom) / to be driven to desperate action | |
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| | there has never been and never will be another person like this (idiom) / never done before and unlikely to be matched in the future / peerless | |
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| | lit. it takes a long time to make a big pot (idiom); fig. a great talent matures slowly / in the fullness of time a major figure will develop into a pillar of the state / Rome wasn't built in a day | |
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| | lit. to respond to heaven and suit the times (idiom); to rule according to the will of heaven / the Divine Right of kings | |
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| | to divulge the will of heaven (idiom); to leak a secret / to let the cat out of the bag | |
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| | Accumulated evil will be repaid in suffering (idiom). | |
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| | lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom) / fig. people who are in it together for better or worse / people who will sink or swim together | |
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| | (Internet slang) if this is an infringement of copyright, please notify me and I will remove it | |
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| | A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine | |
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| | know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法) | |
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| | lit. when the boat reaches the bridge, it will pass underneath without trouble (proverb) / fig. everything will be all right | |
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| | a true gentleman will sacrifice his life for a friend who understands him, as a woman makes herself beautiful for her sweetheart | |
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| | (idiom) there will be no end of trouble in the future | |
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| | lit. reputation will go down in history (idiom); fig. achievements will earn eternal glory | |
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| | the young will be redoubtable in the years to come (idiom) / the younger generations will surpass us in time | |
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| | to detain sb; to hold sb against their will / to withhold (property, documents, funds etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | rendering (visual representation of how things will turn out) | |
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| | to determine right and wrong based on public opinion (idiom) / Public opinion will judge what's right and wrong. | |
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| | lit. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked (idiom); fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices | |
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| | (Tw) (Internet slang) Greetings! (used when it's unknown what time the reader will see one's post, or just to be cute) | |
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| | lit. if the mountain won't move, the river will go around it (idiom) / fig. there's always a way forward, even when faced with obstacles | |
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| | Maitreya / the Bodhisattva that will be the next to come after Shakyamuni Buddha | |
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| | loose, but allows no escape (idiom, from Laozi 老子); the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape | |
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| | to divulge the will of heaven (idiom); to leak a secret / to let the cat out of the bag | |
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| | to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom) | |
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| | will / resolution / aspiration | |
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| | lit. to try to make an ox drink by forcing its head down to the water (idiom) / fig. to try to impose one's will on sb | |
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| | to be done / to be ready / that's enough! / that will do! | |
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| | free will | |
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| | A famous teacher trains a fine student (idiom). A cultured man will have a deep influence on his successors. | |
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| | to endure with all one's will / to hold out / rigid / stiff | |
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| | destiny will make enemies meet (idiom) / (often said about lovers who have a disagreement) | |
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| | if the family lives in harmony all affairs will prosper (idiom) | |
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| | ugly people will do all kinds of weird things to get attention (idiom) | |
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| | lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come. / You can't make progress by clinging to old notions. | |
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| | nobody will find fault with extra courtesy (idiom) / courtesy costs nothing | |
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| | (sign hung in a shop) prices fixed – no bargaining (old) / having things decided by the will of a single individual / autocratic rule / (contrasted with 群言堂) | |
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| | if a woman likes to eat sour during pregnancy, she will have a boy; if she likes to eat spicy, she will have a girl (idiom) | |
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| | practicable / realizable / will work | |
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| | lit. for some things a foot may be too short, and for the other an inch will suffice (proverb) / fig. everyone has their strong and weak points / everything has its advantages and disadvantages | |
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| | lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little | |
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