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| | careless / sloppy / negligent / skimpy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the Bocca Tigris, a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong / Humen Town 虎門鎮|虎门镇 | |
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| | Yahoo, Internet portal | |
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| | lit. like a tiger that has grown wings / with redoubled power (idiom) | |
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| | Year of the Tiger (e.g. 2010) | |
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| | outstanding people / water and fire (in Daoist writing) | |
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| | Hulin, county-level city in Jixi 雞西|鸡西, Heilongjiang | |
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| | lit. dragon soaring and tiger leaping (idiom) / fig. prosperous and bustling; vigorous and active | |
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| | stumbling block | |
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| | White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia | |
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| | hot spell during autumn / Indian summer | |
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| | gecko; house lizard | |
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| | man with a big smile and evil intentions | |
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| | vigorous / formidable / strong | |
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| | to wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously / to gorge oneself | |
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| | fierce tiger | |
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| | lit. dragon's pool and tiger's den (idiom) / fig. dangerous place / hostile territory | |
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| | Boston ivy or Japanese creeper (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) | |
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| | like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey | |
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| | careless / casual / vague / not so bad / so-so / tolerable / fair | |
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| | tiger cub / brave young man | |
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| | lit. the dragon wars, the tiger battles (idiom); fierce battle between giants | |
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| | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, movie by Ang Lee 李安 | |
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| | lit. hidden dragon, crouching tiger (idiom) / fig. talented individuals in hiding / concealed talent | |
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| | killer whale (Orcinus orca) | |
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| | to subdue a tiger / fig. to prevail over sinister forces | |
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| | tiger tally (a two-piece object made in the shape of a tiger, used in ancient China as proof of authority. One half of a tally could be issued to a military officer and this would be matched with the other half when verification was required.) | |
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| | three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact | |
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| | lit. two tigers fight (idiom) / fig. a dispute between two powerful adversaries; a battle of the giants | |
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| | lit. the fox exploits the tiger's might (idiom); fig. to use powerful connections to intimidate people | |
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| | Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (1975-), American golfer | |
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| | valiant general | |
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| | lit. like wolves and tigers / ruthless | |
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| | if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway | |
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| | paper tiger | |
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| | lit. tiger's head, snake's tail (idiom); fig. a strong start but weak finish | |
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| | Huqiu district of Suzhou city 蘇州市|苏州市, Jiangsu | |
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| | to glare like a tiger watching his prey (idiom) / to eye covetously | |
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| | How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained. | |
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| | lit. to nurture a tiger invites calamity / fig. to indulge one's enemy is asking for trouble (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) to act as accomplice to the tiger; to help a villain do evil | |
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| | back of a tiger and waist of a bear / tough and stocky build | |
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| | lit. hidden dragon, crouching tiger (idiom) / fig. talented individuals in hiding / concealed talent | |
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| | lit. drawing a tiger using a cat as a model (idiom); fig. to follow a model and get things more or less right but without capturing the spirit of the subject / uninspired imitation | |
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| | lit. jackals, wolves, tigers and panthers (idiom) / fig. nasty, cruel people | |
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| | to play dumb / to slack off (idiom) | |
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| | to vanquish dragons and tigers (idiom) | |
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| | a deliberate show of strength as a warning | |
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| | tiger's den / dangerous place / the web between the thumb and forefinger of a hand | |
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| | (idiom) powerful and imposing demeanor | |
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| | to turn pale at the mention of a tiger (idiom) / to be scared at the mere mention of | |
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| | lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain | |
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| | if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway | |
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| | lit. to escape from the tiger's mouth (idiom) / fig. to narrowly escape death | |
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| | lit. to let the tiger return to the mountain; fig. to store up future calamities | |
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| | lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom) / fig. to display foolhardy courage | |
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| | lit. the heart of a sheep in the skin of a tiger (idiom) / fig. impressive in appearance but lacking in substance / braggart | |
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| | lit. to stroke the tiger's whiskers / to do sth very daring | |
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| | lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain | |
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| | crouching tiger / fig. major figure in hiding / concealed talent | |
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| | Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom); fig. if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later / to cherish a snake in one's bosom | |
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| | to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it | |
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| | Huwei town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan | |
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| | jumping spider (family Salticidae) | |
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| | Tang Bohu or Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子 | |
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| | being close to the sovereign can be as perilous as lying with a tiger (idiom) | |
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| | lit. a lamb in a tiger's den (idiom) / fig. to tread dangerous ground | |
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| | lit. father a lion, son cannot be a dog (honorific); With a distinguished father such as you, the son is sure to do well. / like father, like son | |
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| | lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom) / fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us / (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive | |
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| | cholera (loanword) | |
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| | (bird species of China) blue-tailed bee-eater (Merops philippinus) | |
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| | cholera (loanword) | |
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| | fierce animals | |
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| | lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom) / fig. the young are fearless | |
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| | Shi Hu (295-349), emperor of Later Zhao 後趙|后赵 | |
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| | leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) / sculpted stone tiger installed at the tomb of revered figures in ancient times to ward off evil spirits | |
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| | jaguar | |
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| | lit. sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight (idiom) / fig. watch in safety whilst others fight then reap the rewards when both sides are exhausted | |
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| | Year 3, year of the Tiger (e.g. 2010) | |
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| | New Barag right banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | New Barag left banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) | |
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| | piranha (fish) | |
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| | tiger bench (torture method in which the victim sits with legs extended horizontally along a bench, upper legs held down with straps while bricks are inserted under the feet, forcing the knee joint to bend in reverse) | |
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| | bench vise | |
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| | snake plant aka mother-in-law's tongue (Dracaena trifasciata) | |
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| | Hulin, county-level city in Jixi 雞西|鸡西, Heilongjiang | |
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| | Tiger Brand (beer) | |
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| | (bird species of China) Steller's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) | |
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| | tremendous strength (idiom) | |
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| | lit. when two tigers fight, one is sure to be wounded (idiom) / fig. if it comes to a fight, someone will get hurt | |
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| | Liu Bei's five great generals in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, namely: Guan Yu 關羽|关羽, Zhang Fei 張飛|张飞, Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云, Ma Chao 馬超|马超, Huang Zhong 黃忠|黄忠 | |
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| | lit. two tigers fighting (idiom) / fig. fierce contest between evenly matched adversaries | |
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