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HSK
can't keep up with / can't catch up with / cannot overtake
HSK 6
to be unable to say or tell / to not be worth mentioning
HSK 7-9
can't compare with
HSK 7-9
unable to get anything to eat / to miss a meal
HSK 7-9
not able to keep up with
HSK 7-9
useless (idiom) / worthless / inept
to be out of the question
HSK 7-9
cannot attend to or manage
HSK 7-9
to be unworthy to associate with (sb of higher social status)
to be irrelevant / to be superfluous
to disagree / I can't agree with that.
not to deserve to be mentioned; not to qualify; below par
to be unable to intervene
lit. if you were eating warm shit, it'd be stone cold by the time you finished it (saying) / fig. (of a person) too slow; can't keep up


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