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teacher
HSK 1
always
HSK 2
honest; sincere / well-behaved / naive; gullible
HSK 4
to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering / hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity
antique; old relic / (fig.) old-fashioned person or thing; old fogey
romantic relationship with a significant age gap
Rolex (Swiss wristwatch brand)
honestly speaking; to be frank, ...
HSK 7-9
to be honest / to tell the truth / to be frank
HSK 7-9
(derog.) old-fashioned and stubborn person; stick in the mud
in one's seventies (age) / very old (of people)
labor market
peacemaker; mediator / (derog.) fixer
(slang) hairdresser
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
a youth without facial hair cannot be relied upon (proverb)
hackneyed / well-worn (phrase etc) / same old story / stereotypical fashion
old-fashioned / old type / outdated
karoshi (loanword from Japanese), death from overwork
Strauss (name) / Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer / Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer
Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍
solid / strong / firm / secure
(coll.) docile / well-behaved / biddable
(dialect) nuisance / pain
ginger gets spicier as it gets older (idiom) / the older, the wiser
enduring while the world lasts (idiom, from Laozi); eternal / for ever and ever (of friendship, hate etc) / also written 天長地久|天长地久
an old horse knows the way (idiom); an experienced worker knows what to do / an old hand knows the ropes
cadaver for dissection in training medical students
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
Laoling, a county-level city in Dezhou City 德州市, Shandong
Wanrong County in Yuncheng 運城|运城, Shanxi / Wanrong or Wanjung township in Hualian County 花蓮縣|花莲县, East Taiwan / Vang Vieng, town in central Laos
to make (products, living spaces etc) suitable for the elderly; (attributive) senior-friendly; elder-accessible
outmoded / old-fashioned
encumbrance / burden / that awful thing (colloquial) / nuisance
lit. an old ox licking its calf (idiom) / fig. (of parents) to dote on one's children
hardy / able to resist hardship
fishing (as a commercial activity)
overly conservative / old-fashioned / old fogey / a square
old-fashioned; old-school
(neologism) (slang) barber; hairdresser
lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law
to forget (everything one has learned)
highly eligible bachelor / desirable male partner
(Tw) Strauss (name) / Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer / Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer
lit. an old cow eats young grass (idiom) / fig. a May-December relationship / a romance where the man is significantly older than the woman
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
regarding oneself as number one in terms of leadership, seniority or status
presbyopia
Wei Lao (c. 450 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), advisor to the first Qin emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇, possible author of the Wei Liaozi 尉繚子|尉缭子 text on military strategy
presbyopia
lit. an old horse knows the way home (idiom); fig. in difficulty, trust an experience colleague
(lit.) past years' almanac / (fig.) ancient history; obsolete practice; old-fashioned principle
old-fashioned; unstylish
experienced in the ways of the world (idiom); worldly-wise / sophisticated
Laohekou, a county-level city in Xiangyang City 襄陽市|襄阳市, Hubei
various sages and ten schools of thought / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子, Mohism by Mozi 墨子, Legalism by Sunzi 孫子|孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子, and numerous others
it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平 in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)


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