| | (lit.) music, women, dogs and horses (traditional aristocratic amusements, with dogs and horses referring to activities such as hunting and riding) (idiom) / (fig.) wine, women and song; dissolute pleasures; a life of sensual indulgence | |
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| | commonplace / ordinary / mediocre | HSK 6 |
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| | meritocracy | |
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| | democracy / democratic | HSK 6 |
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| | rich patriarchal family / aristocracy | |
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| | disciple / follower / hanger-on (at an aristocrat's home) | |
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| | to delay / to put off / to procrastinate | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science | |
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| | absolutism / despotism / autocracy | |
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| | woven mat / seat / banquet / place in a democratic assembly / classifier for banquets, conversations etc | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Xanthippe, Socrates' wife | |
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| | Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
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| | autocracy / dictatorship | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (Tw) Clinton (name) / Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, president 1993-2001 / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician | |
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| | Hatoyama, Japanese name and place name / Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2009-2010 | |
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| | family influential for generations / aristocratic family | |
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| | not more than so-so (idiom); mediocre / nothing out of the ordinary | |
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| | midway / mediocre (quality) / midfield (soccer) | |
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| | meritocracy | |
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| | hypocrite | |
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| | endocrine (internal secretion, e.g. hormone) | |
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| | golden mean (Confucianism) / (literary) (of person) mediocre / ordinary | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hypocrite | |
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| | ordinary / mediocre | |
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| | autocratic monarchy / imperial regime | |
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| | the hypocrisy of the world (idiom) | |
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| | democracy (as a system of government) | |
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| | Barack Obama (1961–), US Democrat politician, president 2009–2017 | |
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| | autocracy / dictatorship | |
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| | mediocre / indifferent / commonplace | |
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| | to drag along / to haul / (fig.) to procrastinate / shilly-shallying / sluggish / (computing) drag and drop / (loanword) tola, unit of weight, approx. 11.664 grams | |
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| | democratic centralism | |
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| | technocrat | |
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| | People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) | |
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| | ordinary / mediocre / nothing special | |
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| | (coll.) unenthusiastic, mediocre student / underachiever | |
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| | to procrastinate / to shilly-shally and waste time | |
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| | procrastination | |
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| | false / hypocritical / artificial / sham | HSK 7-9 |
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| | DPP (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan) / abbr. for 民主進步黨｜民主进步党 | |
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| | East and West Germany / refers to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) | |
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| | Lai Chee-ying, aka Jimmy Lai (1947–), Hong Kong media tycoon, prominent critic of the CCP and supporter of the pro-democracy camp 民主派 | |
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| | mediocre person | |
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| | to procrastinate / to stall for time / to filibuster | |
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| | insincerity; hypocrisy / insincerely | |
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| | democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution) | |
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| | dictator / autocrat | |
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| | Democratic Republic of Vietnam (aka North Vietnam), a country in Southeast Asia 1945-1976 | |
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| | (imperial China) rebel; traitor / (post-1949) enemy of the state; counter-revolutionary / (slang) dissident (used self-referentially, esp. in pro-democracy circles) | |
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| | unaccomplished / mediocre / feckless | |
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| | ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about | |
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| | lit. honeyed words, a sword in the belly (idiom); fig. hypocritical and murderous | |
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| | Christian democratic party | |
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| | Liberal Democratic Party (Japanese political party) | |
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| | lord / nobility / nobleman / noblewoman / aristocrat / aristocracy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-sen's alliance for democracy, founded 1905, became the Guomindang 國民黨｜国民党 in 1912 | |
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| | optical character recognition (OCR) | |
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| | Democratic Party | |
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| | Social Democratic Party | |
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| | delay / procrastination | |
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| | Clinton (name) / Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, President 1993-2001 / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician | |
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| | to cut the feet to fit the shoes (idiom); to force sth to fit (as to a Procrustean bed) / impractical or inelegant solution | |
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| | aristocracy | |
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| | theocracy | |
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| | the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom); hypocritical pretence of condolence / crocodile tears | |
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| | aristocracy | |
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| | our peasant friends (political term used in the early years of the Old Democratic Revolution, 1840-1919) / (Tw) (coll.) farmer | |
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| | Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-sen's alliance for democracy, founded 1905, became the Guomindang 國民黨｜国民党 in 1912 | |
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| | exocrine; external secretion (e.g. saliva) | |
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| | New Democracy | |
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| | social democracy | |
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| | anecdote (about historical person) / lost or apocryphal story | |
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| | lit. a dagger hidden in smiles (idiom); friendly manners belying hypocritical intentions / when the fox preaches, look to the geese | |
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| | (sign hung in a shop) prices fixed – no bargaining (old) / having things decided by the will of a single individual / autocratic rule / (contrasted with 群言堂) | |
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| | absolute monarchy / autocracy | |
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| | to delay / to postpone / to keep putting sth off / to procrastinate / (computing) to lag | |
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| | the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom); hypocritical pretence of condolence / crocodile tears | |
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| | Hillary (name) / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician | |
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| | hypocritical | |
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| | union of religious and political rule / theocracy / Caesaropapism | |
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| | democrat | |
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| | to procrastinate | |
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| | (Tw) Barack Obama (1961–), US Democrat politician, president 2009–2017 | |
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| | civil transport / movement aimed at the masses / democracy movement (abbr.) | |
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| | Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher / José Sócrates (1957-), prime minister of Portugal (2005-2011) | |
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| | tricky and hypocritical | |
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| | anecdote / lost or apocryphal story about famous person | |
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| | ordinary / mediocre | |
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| | DPP (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan) / abbr. to 民進黨｜民进党 | |
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| | democracy / civil liberties / principle of democracy, the second of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山｜孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義｜三民主义 (at the time, meaning widespread popular involvement in affairs of state) | |
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| | monarchy / autocracy | |
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| | mediocre and incompetent | |
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| | non-canonical text / dubious classic text / Apocrypha | |
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| | pan-Democratic alliance (Hong Kong) | |
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| | gentrification / aristocratic; upper-class | |
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| | mediocre / rather poor / not specially good | |
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| | monocrystalline | |
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| | Wang Dan (1969-), Chinese dissident, one of the leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989 | |
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| | centralized autocratic rule | |
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