| | (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then / (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after / (same as 就是) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly / only; as little as / as much as; as many as / to approach; to move towards / to undertake; to engage in / (often followed by 著|着) taking advantage of / (of food) to go with / with regard to; concerning / (pattern: 就 ... 也 ...) even if ... still ... / (pattern: 不 ... 就 ...) if not ... then must be ... | HSK 1 |
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| | (adverb) also; both ... and ... (before predicates only) / (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊 | HSK 1 |
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| | again; once more; re- / second; another / then (after sth, and not until then) / no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也 or 都 for emphasis) | HSK 1 |
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| | perhaps / maybe | HSK 2 |
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| | to link / to join / to connect / continuously / in succession / including / (used with 也, 都 etc) even / company (military) | HSK 3 |
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| | exactly; precisely / only; simply; just / (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | HSK 3 |
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| | that's fine / may as well / (reduplicated) regardless of whether ... or ... | HSK 5 |
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| | (not) any more | HSK 5 |
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| | in other words / that is to say / so / thus | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Vienna, capital of Austria | |
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| | surname Ye | |
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| | (reduplicated) whether... or... / never mind / fine (indicating acceptance or resignation) | |
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| | not to reciprocate is against etiquette (classical) / to respond in kind | |
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| | lit. as if flying / very fast | |
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| | as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft / to have nothing / vacuous / hollow / empty (argument, head etc) | |
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| | strangely enough / oddly enough / strange to say | |
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| | lit. 之, 乎, 者 and 也 (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions | |
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| | Adolphe Thiers | |
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| | best not to mention it / drop it / never mind / let's not talk about it | |
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| | hardly any better / just as bad | |
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| | just as bad; not much better | |
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| | that is / i.e. | |
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| | (coll.) to get one's just deserts / to serve sb right / to get one's share of (good or bad things) / every dog has its day | |
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| | words of a man on his deathbed always come from the heart (proverb) | |
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| | Life is short, learning is limitless / Ars longa, vita brevis | |
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| | without a second thought | |
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| | lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信 being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军 / fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor | |
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| | (Internet slang) I can't even... / Are you kidding me! / OMG! | |
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| | mouth full of literary phrases / to spout the classics | |
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| | lit. even a mosquito, though tiny, provides some nourishment (idiom) / fig. it's better than nothing | |
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| | lit. even a locust provides some nourishment (idiom) / fig. it's better than nothing | |
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| | (neologism c. 2014) (coll.) to be unfairly targeted (abbr. for 躺著也中槍|躺着也中枪) | |
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| | (Internet slang) (lit.) to get shot even though lying down; (fig.) to be unfairly targeted | |
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| | lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom) / fig. it's not something you can avoid forever | |
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| | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚 / also written 陀思妥耶夫斯基 | |
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| | Appetite and lust are only natural (Mencius 6A:4). / By nature we desire food and sex. | |
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