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

hollow / emptiness / meaningless

virtual machine

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

virtual reality

weak / in poor health

false / hypocritical / artificial / sham

dotted line

modest / self-effacing / to make modest remarks

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

lacking in confidence / diffident / to have a guilty conscience

deficiency of 氣｜气 (TCM)

to misreport / fraudulent report

deficiency of yin 陰｜阴 in TCM

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

imaginary / illusory

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

depletion of the spleen (Chinese medicine)

(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

open-minded / humble

to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery

(false) bravado / to bluff

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

false reputation

false friendship / hypocritical show of affection

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

false alarm / panic rumor / CL: 場｜场

vanity

to feel weak / to be diffident

empty words / false words

vain

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

hard to tell if it's real or sham

Akasagarbha Bodhisattva

background blurring (photography)

to discuss guidelines / to discuss principles to be followed

fabricated

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

imaginary number

to take advantage of weakness

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

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

to fritter away (one's time)

to have an undeserved reputation (idiom)

Taixu (famed Buddhist monk, 1890-1947)

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

vanity

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

(linguistics) function word

deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated

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

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

nihilism

to feign civility (idiom)

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 waste time on worthless activities

to reserve a seat for sb (idiom)

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

(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

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

to let correct ideology guide practical work (idiom)

fiction

virtual connection

subjunctive mood (grammar)

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

light and airy / floating

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

modest and studious (idiom)

to play tricks / to deceive

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.

tricky and hypocritical

virtual particle

see 虛應故事｜虚应故事

to possess an undeserved reputation (idiom)

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

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

virtual circuit / VC

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