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HSK
deliberately; on purpose
HSK 2
narrative; story; tale
HSK 2
home / homeland / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
accident / CL: 樁|桩, ,
HSK 3
reason / cause
HSK 6
malfunction / breakdown / defect / shortcoming / fault / failure / impediment / error / bug (in software)
HSK 6
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  *故* | 故* | *故
happening / instance / reason / cause / intentional / former / old / friend / therefore / hence / (of people) to die, dead
HSK 7-9
sophisticated / worldly-wise
HSK 7-9
without cause or reason
HSK 7-9
the Forbidden City / abbr. for 故宮博物院|故宫博物院
former imperial palace
therefore
Palace Museum, in the Forbidden City, Beijing / National Palace Museum, Taipei
former residence
somehow
deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated
therefore / so / consequently
one's old self / one's original self / what one has always been
the Forbidden City / the Imperial Palace in Beijing / same as 故宮|故宫
the ways of the world
old practice
old friend / deceased friend
ghost story
to revert to old ways
former capital / ancient capital
worldly wisdom / the ways of the world / to know how to get on in the world
old road / old way / old course (of a river)
lit. to breathe out stale air and breathe in fresh (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); fig. to get rid of the old and bring in the new
deliberate violation (idiom); intentional crime
to be one's old self (idiom) / to be unchanged / (derog.) to be stuck in one's ways
the late / deceased
to die
an unforeseen event / accident / misfortune
to pretend / to feign
old friend / the deceased
(idiom) to ask a question, already knowing the answer
old site / site of sth (palace, ancient state etc) that no longer exists
classical story or quote from the literature / the story behind sth
no cause, no reason (idiom); completely uncalled for
mythical story; myth
as before / as usual / (to be) like old friends
folk story / folktale
(idiom) for no reason whatever; inexplicably
to revisit old haunts (idiom); down memory lane
lit. neither a relative nor a friend (idiom) / fig. unrelated to one another in any way
therefore
country with an ancient history
Gucheng county in Hengshui 衡水, Hebei
old friends
accident occurring due to negligence
a pile of old books
familiarity at first sight
what for? / what's the reason?
to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects) / to recall the past to understand the future
native country; one's homeland
experienced in the ways of the world (idiom); worldly-wise / sophisticated
In order to capture, one must let loose. / to loosen the reins only to grasp them better
usual trick / old tactics
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集
rut (made by vehicles) / (fig.) conventional ways
old friend / correct interpretation
one's hometown
old classics / old customs / cause
old and respected family / family whose members have been officials from generation to generation
to go through the motions
home town; native place
to be set in one's ways (idiom)
old friend / former acquaintance
old friends and relatives
premeditated murder
old city
anecdote; tales (esp. about a historical figure)
former home
to die / to pass away
once familiar places / former haunts
to die / to pass away
to find a pretext for refusing
former acquaintance / old friend
to die of an illness
stuck in the old ways (idiom); refusing to acknowledge new ideas / stagnating and conservative
to die / death
without relatives or friends
a close friend over many years
to find an excuse
follow the same old path (idiom); stuck in a rut / always the same routine
variant of 緣故|缘故
(idiom) back to where we were; absolutely no improvement; things haven't changed at all
to repeat an old stratagem / up to one's old tricks
not to stick to the old conventions
to dig into piles of outdated writings (idiom); to study old books and papers
complete change from the old rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction / a volte-face / to change old practices
do not neglect old friends
to discard the old and introduce the new (idiom); to innovate
old tomb
to have no basis in fact (idiom)
descended from an old family
accident
to return home with honor
unworldly / unsophisticated

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