| | only the official is allowed to light the fire / Gods may do what cattle may not / quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi | |
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| | house / building (single- or two-story) / apartment / room / CL: 棟|栋, 幢, 座, 套, 間|间 | HSK 1 |
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| | lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means | HSK 7-9 |
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| | propitious wind throughout the journey (idiom) / plain sailing / to go smoothly / have a nice trip! | HSK 7-9 |
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| | such things as ... / examples including ... (etc) / without exception / every / any | |
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| | to defend / to protect (against) | HSK 6 |
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| | housing | HSK 2 |
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| | a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956 | |
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| | Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王 overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc | |
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| | without rules, how can anything be done (idiom); one must follow some rules | |
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| | house price / cost of housing | HSK 6 |
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| | Southern Weekend (newspaper) | |
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| | to give an interview / to be interviewed / to respond to (questions, a survey etc) | |
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| | Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王 overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc | |
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| | Fanshi county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi | |
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| | to have one's feet firmly planted on the ground (idiom); realistic without flights of fancy / steady and serious character | |
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| | the store front / the part of a house facing the street serving as a store | |
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| | real estate / the property market (e.g. houses) | |
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| | (idiom) to fall out with sb; to become enemies | |
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| | decrepit house | |
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| | landlord / house owner | |
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| | house / building | |
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| | to let go one's hold / to give up / to have a free hand | |
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| | rent for a room or house | HSK 3 |
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| | second-hand house / house acquired indirectly through a middle-man | |
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| | house / building / CL: 所, 套 | HSK 3 |
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| | public housing | |
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| | leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc) | |
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| | Shouguang, a county-level city in Weifang City 濰坊市|潍坊市, Shandong | |
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| | honor does not allow one to glance back (idiom); duty-bound not to turn back / no surrender / to pursue justice with no second thoughts | |
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| | private house | |
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| | to buy a house | |
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| | the rear / far behind the front line | |
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| | farm house | |
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| | after liberation (i.e. after the Communist's victory) / after the establishment of PRC in 1949 | |
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| | public housing / dormitory, esp. for unmarried people | |
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| | to sleep in separate rooms / distribution of social housing | |
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| | History of Eastern Han (later Han), third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Fan Ye 范曄|范晔 in 445 during Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋, 120 scrolls | |
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| | lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 in fiction) | |
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| | low-rent housing | |
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| | house / room / CL: 間|间 / branch of an extended family / classifier for family members (or concubines) | |
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| | lit. to draw the bow without shooting the arrow (idiom) / fig. to bluff / to be all talk and no action / false bravado | |
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| | charges for a room / house rental | |
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| | wild fantasy / unwarranted thought | |
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| | bungalow / single-story house | |
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| | to sell | |
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| | to turn a hand over / to put one's hand behind one's back / fig. easily done | |
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| | category theory (math.) | |
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| | Yangzhou fried rice, featuring scrambled egg, diced vegetables and multiple proteins – typically shrimp and barbecued pork | |
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| | lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain / very powerful and capable (idiom) | |
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| | protective gloves | |
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| | to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation from the essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记 by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹) | |
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| | Dafang, a county in Bijie City 畢節市|毕节市, Guizhou | |
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| | ark | |
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| | tile-roofed house | |
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| | to buy a house on a mortgage / house mortgage | |
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| | Xinjiang-style pilaf, made with lamb | |
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| | furry (fan of anthropomorphic animal characters) | |
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| | definitely; absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut! / to grind / (bound form) close to / (bound form) eager / to correspond to / (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切 system should be applied to the previous two characters) | |
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| | forward delivery apartment / unfinished housing to be paid for in advance by the buyer and then completed within certain time frame | |
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| | Western-style house | |
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| | to have free rein (idiom) | |
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| | (of an author, musician etc) to sign (books, records etc) purchased by fans | |
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| | to stay home alone (of married woman) | |
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| | exhaust fan | |
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| | without rules, nothing can be done (idiom); one must follow some rules | |
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| | warehouse / storehouse / inn | |
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| | to be caught off guard / without warning | |
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| | Zhoukoudian prehistoric site in Fangshan district 房山區|房山区, Beijing | |
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| | toilet (rural euphemism) / thatched hut or house | |
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| | Pennsylvania | |
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| | to build a house | |
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| | to fancy from afar / reverie / wild and fanciful thoughts | |
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| | without rules, nothing can be done (idiom, from Mencius); one must follow some rules | |
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| | to fire after the horse has bolted (idiom); to act too late to be effective | |
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| | to provide alms and rice (idiom) | |
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| | Pan-Pearl River delta / The nine provinces of Southern China around Guangzhou and the Pearl River delta / South China | |
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| | the Pan-Pearl river delta (economic zone including the 5 provinces around Guangzhou and Hong Kong) | |
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| | to hesitate / to have second thoughts / to be concerned / to brood (over sth) / to complain | |
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| | walk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life (proverb) | |
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| | compartment (of train, ship etc) / private room at restaurant / rented room for karaoke / hotel room rented by the hour | |
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| | (gymnastics) cartwheel; to do a cartwheel | |
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| | Noah's ark | |
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| | workshop / temporary housing for workers / workers' living quarters | |
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| | housetop / roof | |
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| | house-swap vacation | |
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| | wing (of a traditional house) / side room | |
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| | (bird species of China) Blyth's paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone affinis) | |
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| | (publishing industry) book signing event; (music industry) fansign event | |
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| | to reprint (generally without authorization) | |
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| | lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經|易经); impossible to advance or to retreat / without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation | |
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| | to glance back / (fig.) to regret; to have second thoughts about sth | |
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| | one cannot achieve glory and wealth without having been through trials and tribulations (proverb) / no pain, no gain | |
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| | housing agent / real estate agent | |
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| | temporary housing built with wooden planks or other makeshift materials | |
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| | participant in a survey; interviewee; respondent | |
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| | storeroom / warehouse | |
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| | to rebuild (house or road) / to overhaul | |
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| | co-op owned house | |
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| | support group (e.g. for an election candidate) / fan club | |
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