open-minded / humble

modest / self-effacing / to make modest remarks

false / phony / pretense

vanity

hollow / emptiness / meaningless

false / hypocritical / artificial / sham

to imagine / to make up / fictitious / theoretical / hypothetical / (computing) to emulate / virtual

emptiness / void / abstract theory or guiding principles / empty or unoccupied / diffident or timid / false / humble or modest / (of health) weak / virtual / in vain

imaginary / illusory

nothingness

what is true and what is false / (to get to know) the real situation

lit. name is not in vain (idiom); a fully justified reputation / enjoys a well-deserved reputation

weak / in poor health

to make up / fabrication / fictional / imaginary

virtual reality (Tw)

Taixu (famed Buddhist monk, 1890-1947)

great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos

vanity

virtual machine

to have an undeserved reputation (idiom)

void / hollow / empty

virtual reality

deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated

to exist in name only / empty shell / useless (idiom)

fabricated

to feel guilty as a thief (idiom); to have sth on one's conscience

one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived). In this system, a person's age is one year at birth, and increases by one year at the beginning of the first solar term 立春 each year, rather than on one's birthday. / as opposed to 足歲｜足岁 / see also 實歲｜实岁

to fritter away (one's time)

to feign civility (idiom)

lacking in confidence / diffident / to have a guilty conscience

dotted line / dashed line / (math.) imaginary line

looks impressive but is worthless (idiom) / not as good as it looks / a reputation with no substance

an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy (idiom)

virtual environment

to misreport / fraudulent report

to waste time on worthless activities

receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom); modest and open-minded

deficiency of 氣｜气 (TCM)

to collapse (from dehydration or loss of blood) / heat exhaustion

deceitful trick / mystery / unfathomable

imaginary number

deficiency of yin 陰｜阴 in TCM

lit. a banquet with no empty seats / full house / capacity crowd / standing room only

a person who is in poor health cannot handle sth so strong as a tonic

depletion of the spleen (Chinese medicine)

the trip has not been made in vain / the trip has been well worthwhile / it's been a worthwhile trip

virtual network

to discuss guidelines / to discuss principles to be followed

false friendship / hypocritical show of affection

(TCM) consumptive disease, chronic deficiency disorder due to impaired function of inner organs, deficiency of qi, blood, yin and yang / asthenia

nominal position

to enter by exploiting a weak spot (idiom); to take advantage of a lapse

nihilism

(false) bravado / to bluff

excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself

false reputation

false alarm / panic rumor / CL: 場｜场

unreal / illusory / imaginary / vague and with nothing in it

to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery

to feel weak / to be diffident

vain

empty words / false words

background blurring (photography)

hard to tell if it's real or sham

virtual image

to miss the target (with a bullet or an arrow)

with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be

imaginary star (in astrology)

Akasagarbha Bodhisattva

to take advantage of weakness

(linguistics) function word

Take what you hear to be false, only believe it when you see it (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself. / It ain't necessarily so.

false

to go through the motions

false alert

dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality

virtual connection

to play tricks / to deceive

(idiom) stay clear of the enemy's main force and strike at his weak points

modest and studious (idiom)

to boast / to brag / boastful / exaggerative / pompous / bombastic

null hypothesis (statistics)

to believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself. / It ain't necessarily so.

Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜

to let correct ideology guide practical work (idiom)

virtual private network (VPN)

virtual private network (VPN)

fiction

imaginary reputation / empty fame

white square character ( □ ), used to represent a missing ideograph

to reserve a seat for sb (idiom)

tricky and hypocritical

subjunctive mood (grammar)

virtual particle

to hide one's treasure away so that no-one knows about it (idiom); fig. modest about one's talents / to hide one's light under a bushel

see 虛應故事｜虚应故事

light and airy / floating

Modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you drop behind (favorite slogan of Mao Zedong)

empty wrist (method of painting)

virtual circuit / VC