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| | circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (yuan) / tactful / to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie) | HSK 4 |
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| | dream (CL: 場|场, 個|个) / (bound form) to dream | HSK 4 |
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| | (fig.) to dream of / dream | HSK 4 |
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| | to dream about (sth or sb) / to see in a dream | HSK 4 |
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| | to dream / to have a dream / fig. illusion / fantasy / pipe dream | HSK 4 |
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| | cherished desire / dream / craving / wish / aspiration | HSK 6 |
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| | dream / illusion / reverie | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Duke of Zhou (11th c. BC), son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王, played an important role as regent in founding the Western Zhou 西周, and is also known as the "God of Dreams" | |
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| | to interpret a dream | |
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| | (of dreams, hopes etc) to vanish; to evaporate / (of a person) to become disillusioned; disillusionment | |
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| | fantasy / illusion / vain dream | |
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| | A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels | |
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| | to fulfill one's dream / (divination) to predict the future by interpreting a dream / oneiromancy | |
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| | to sleepwalk / to journey in a dream | |
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| | fantasy / illusion / dream | |
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| | to weave; to knit; to plait; to braid / (fig.) to create (sth abstract, e.g. a dream, a lie etc) | |
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| | to dream / to sleep | |
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| | old dreams | |
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| | to accomplish one's ambition / a dream come true / to enjoy success | |
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| | the land of dreams / slumberland | |
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| | to awaken from a dream | |
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| | sweet dream / sleeping soundly | |
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| | nocturnal emission / wet dream | |
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| | to revive old dreams (idiom); to relive past experiences | |
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| | to daydream / wishful thinking / pipe dream | |
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| | spring dream / short-lived illusion / erotic dream | |
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| | to yearn for sth even in one's dreams (idiom) / to long for sth day and night | |
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| | life is but a dream (idiom) | |
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| | lit. to share the same bed with different dreams (idiom); ostensible partners with different agendas / strange bedfellows / marital dissension | |
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| | "Redology", academic field devoted to the study of A Dream of Red Mansions | |
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| | horse race / to ride a horse at a fast pace / (dialect) wet dream | |
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| | lit. a dream of Nanke / fig. dreams of grandeur | |
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| | wet dream; nocturnal emission | |
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| | (Buddhism) illusion / pipe dream | |
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| | to concoct / to dream up | |
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| | in a dream | |
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| | to dream of / to dream about | |
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| | dream of golden millet / fig. illusions of wealth and power / pipe dream | |
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| | Shen Kuo (1031-1095), Chinese polymath, scientist and statesman of Song dynasty, author of Dream Pool Essays 夢溪筆談|梦溪笔谈 | |
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| | pleasant and romantic dream | |
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| | Midsummer night's dream, comedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚 | |
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| | Chinese Dream (i.e. the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation), term associated with Xi Jinping 習近平|习近平 | |
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| | Jia Baoyu, male character in The Dream of Red Mansions, in love with his cousin Lin Daiyu 林黛玉 but obliged to marry Xue Baochai 薛寶釵|薛宝钗 | |
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| | Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo 沈括, book on various fields of knowledge, the first to describe the magnetic needle compass | |
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| | to analyze dreams (for fortune-telling) | |
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| | to be fascinated / to be rapt / to long for / to dream of | |
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| | Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦 | |
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| | a dream come true | |
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| | Xue Baochai, female character in Dream of Red Mansions, married to Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉|贾宝玉 | |
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| | the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, namely: A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦, Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义, Water Margin 水滸傳|水浒传, Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记 | |
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| | in your dreams! / as if! / You wish! / I wish that were so | |
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| | lit. that person / fig. the person you have been looking for / Mr Right / the girl of one's dreams | |
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| | One world - one dream, motto of 2008 Beijing Olympic games | |
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| | Prospect Garden / Grand View Garden, a garden in Dream of the Red Chamber | |
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| | a beautiful dream is hard to realize (idiom) | |
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| | (coll.) the girl of your dreams | |
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| | grand dreams / unrealistic ideas (idiom) | |
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| | Lin Daiyu, female character in The Dream of Red Mansions, cousin and thwarted lover of Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉|贾宝玉 | |
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| | if one is too calculating, it will be the cause of one's own undoing (famous line in "A Dream of Red Mansions" 紅樓夢|红楼梦) | |
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| | lucid dream | |
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| | a Prince Charming; the man of one's dreams | |
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| | fast asleep / dreaming | |
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| | The Story of the Stone, another name for A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦 | |
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| | lit. the fairy is willing, but King Xiang doesn't dream (idiom) / (said of a woman's unrequited love) | |
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| | (Tw) to dream of having (sth one cannot possibly have); to covet (sth beyond one's grasp) (from Taiwanese 數想, Tai-lo pr. [siàu-siūnn]) | |
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| | Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 dreams of a butterfly (or is it the butterfly dreaming of Zhuangzi?) | |
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| | dream of golden millet / fig. illusions of wealth and glory / pipe dream | |
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