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| | honest; sincere / well-behaved / naive; gullible | HSK 4 |
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| | to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering / hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity | |
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| | antique; old relic / (fig.) old-fashioned person or thing; old fogey | |
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| | romantic relationship with a significant age gap | |
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| | Rolex (Swiss wristwatch brand) | |
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| | honestly speaking; to be frank, ... | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be honest / to tell the truth / to be frank | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (derog.) old-fashioned and stubborn person; stick in the mud | |
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| | in one's seventies (age) / very old (of people) | |
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| | labor market | |
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| | peacemaker; mediator / (derog.) fixer | |
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| | (slang) hairdresser | |
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| | hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom) | |
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| | a youth without facial hair cannot be relied upon (proverb) | |
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| | hackneyed / well-worn (phrase etc) / same old story / stereotypical fashion | |
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| | old-fashioned / old type / outdated | |
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| | karoshi (loanword from Japanese), death from overwork | |
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| | Strauss (name) / Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer / Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer | |
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| | Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍 | |
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| | solid / strong / firm / secure | |
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| | (coll.) docile / well-behaved / biddable | |
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| | (dialect) nuisance / pain | |
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| | ginger gets spicier as it gets older (idiom) / the older, the wiser | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | an old horse knows the way (idiom); an experienced worker knows what to do / an old hand knows the ropes | |
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| | cadaver for dissection in training medical students | |
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| | lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch | |
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| | Laoling, a county-level city in Dezhou City 德州市, Shandong | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | to make (products, living spaces etc) suitable for the elderly; (attributive) senior-friendly; elder-accessible | |
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| | outmoded / old-fashioned | |
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| | encumbrance / burden / that awful thing (colloquial) / nuisance | |
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| | lit. an old ox licking its calf (idiom) / fig. (of parents) to dote on one's children | |
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| | hardy / able to resist hardship | |
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| | fishing (as a commercial activity) | |
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| | overly conservative / old-fashioned / old fogey / a square | |
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| | old-fashioned; old-school | |
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| | (neologism) (slang) barber; hairdresser | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | to forget (everything one has learned) | |
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| | highly eligible bachelor / desirable male partner | |
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| | (Tw) Strauss (name) / Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer / Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer | |
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| | lit. an old cow eats young grass (idiom) / fig. a May-December relationship / a romance where the man is significantly older than the woman | |
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| | lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch | |
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| | regarding oneself as number one in terms of leadership, seniority or status | |
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| | presbyopia | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | presbyopia | |
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| | lit. an old horse knows the way home (idiom); fig. in difficulty, trust an experience colleague | |
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| | (lit.) past years' almanac / (fig.) ancient history; obsolete practice; old-fashioned principle | |
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| | old-fashioned; unstylish | |
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| | experienced in the ways of the world (idiom); worldly-wise / sophisticated | |
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| | Laohekou, a county-level city in Xiangyang City 襄陽市|襄阳市, Hubei | |
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| | various sages and ten schools of thought / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒 represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism 道 by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子, Mohism 墨 by Mozi 墨子, Legalism 法 by Sunzi 孫子|孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子, and numerous others | |
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| | 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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