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quickly; at once
HSK 3
as quickly as possible; as soon as possible
HSK 4
to withdraw money from a bank
HSK 6
ATM
HSK 6
jeans / CL: 條|条
HSK 5
to send back information / feedback
HSK 7-9
short pants / shorts
HSK 3
(coll.) underpants
reservoir / CL: 座
HSK 5
treasure-house / treasury / treasure-trove (often fig., book of treasured wisdom)
HSK 7-9
sea state; sea conditions
to have a guilty conscience
Karakorum Highway, linking Pakistan and Xinjiang
leggings
(idiom) quick to notice and react
slab / (geology) tectonic plate / (fig.) sector (of the stock market or of industry) / (economic) bloc
HSK 7-9
painstakingly / with great trouble
(idiom) to get into the black; to become profitable
Three Gorges Reservoir on the Changjiang or Yangtze
(Tw) disposable chopsticks
to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis
party boss
wide / vast
HSK 6
Faku, a county in Shenyang City 瀋陽市|沈阳市, Liaoning
(literary) cruel; savage; merciless
in the wrong
to bring trouble on oneself
to make modifications to a product's model or design
to squash / to crush / to squeeze out of business / to drive out
arsenal
cold-hearted; unfeeling; callous
HSK 7-9
to entreat piteously / to implore
esthetic pleasure
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
seafloor spreading (geology)
swelling / growth / tumor / lump
unfeeling; callous
HSK 7-9
to sum up / all-inclusive
round brackets; parentheses ( )
bowl and chopsticks / tableware
negative feedback
luckily / fortunately
striding forward with head high (idiom); to walk with spirited and vigorous step / to strut
mining
HSK 7-9
(coll.) (usually used in the negative) (can't) hurt (to do sth) / (won't) hurt (to do sth)
swim trunks
(loanword) parkour
shared library (computing)
to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom) / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering / sometimes written 啞子吃黃連,有苦說不出|哑子吃黄连,有苦说不出
frank and outspoken / straight speaking / to say what one thinks
diquat
sharp-sighted and deft
iron ore
refreshed / rejuvenated / frank and straightforward
HSK 7-9
to enlarge color photos / color film processing
tragic situation; dreadful state
strenuously / persistently / hard / painful
frank and outspoken (idiom) / straight speaking / to say what one thinks
arsenal / store of arms
refrigerated warehouse; walk-in freezer
Cancún
paranoia / megalomaniac
balance (money remaining due)
to feel gratitude mixed with shame
to steadily deteriorate
wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas / the whole wide world / chatting about everything under the sun
credit card overpayment
automated teller machine (ATM)
(literary) crafty / cunning
slag heap / dump of mining waste
to parade one's wealth / to be ostentatious and extravagant
Li Kui, character in the novel Water Margin 水滸全傳|水浒全传
to look at sth through a bamboo tube / to have a restricted view
to defeat / to strike down / to destroy
having unspeakable bitter suffering / (often used after 啞巴吃黃連|哑巴吃黄连)
plate tectonics
factories and mines
not a slave to the bottle / able to enjoy alcohol in moderation / able to hold one's drink
to tighten one's belt / to live more frugally
boxer shorts
sighing with emotion
(computing) text box
lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering / a radical change
extensible markup language (XML)
outspoken and frank (idiom)
to rack one's brains (for apt wording etc) (idiom)
straightening machine / also pr. [yin3 gua1]
sea anemone
(idiom) to ask for trouble; to make a rod for one's own back
Turkmen / (Tw, HK) Turkmenistan
(to be guilty of) dereliction of duty
mining area
briefs / panties
bauxite
to have loose lips
Turkmen (person)
1,4-benzoquinone (chemistry) / para-benzoquinone

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