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

to make up / fabrication / fictional / imaginary

virtual reality (Tw)

void / hollow / empty

false / phony / pretense

virtual environment

false / hypocritical / artificial / sham

hollow / emptiness / meaningless

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

virtual machine

weak / in poor health

dotted line

modest / self-effacing / to make modest remarks

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

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

vanity

lacking in confidence / diffident / to have a guilty conscience

deficiency of 氣｜气 (TCM)

to misreport / fraudulent report

virtual reality

deficiency of yin 陰｜阴 in TCM

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

Taixu (famed Buddhist monk, 1890-1947)

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

imaginary / illusory

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

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

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

nothingness

false alert

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

imaginary star (in astrology)

virtual network

to have an undeserved reputation (idiom)

open-minded / humble

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

(false) bravado / to bluff

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

false reputation

to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery

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

false friendship / hypocritical show of affection

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

false alarm / panic rumor / CL: 場｜场

to feel weak / to be diffident

empty words / false words

vain

to feign civility (idiom)

hard to tell if it's real or sham

Akasagarbha Bodhisattva

background blurring (photography)

to waste time on worthless activities

to discuss guidelines / to discuss principles to be followed

nihilism

fabricated

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

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

imaginary number

to take advantage of weakness

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

to fritter away (one's time)

vanity

(linguistics) function word

deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated

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

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

deceitful trick / mystery / unfathomable

to go through the motions

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.

virtual image

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

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

to reserve a seat for sb (idiom)

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

virtual private network (VPN)

false

virtual private network (VPN)

dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality

imaginary reputation / empty fame

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.

null hypothesis (statistics)

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

tricky and hypocritical

to let correct ideology guide practical work (idiom)

fiction

virtual connection

subjunctive mood (grammar)

empty wrist (method of painting)

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

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

light and airy / floating

modest and studious (idiom)

to play tricks / to deceive

facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication

virtual particle

see 虛應故事｜虚应故事

to possess an undeserved reputation (idiom)

to listen to the ideas of others with an open mind (idiom)