| | purpose; aim; goal; target; objective / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | to target; to focus on; to be aimed at or against; in response to | HSK 4 |
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| | to point towards / aimed at / facing / the direction indicated | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to have as its purpose / to be intended to / to aim to (do sth) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | objective / aim / goal | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to take aim at; to target | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to aim at / to target / to point at / to be directed at / registration / alignment (mechanical engineering) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (of animals, the wind etc) to make a mournful sound / whine; moan; wail | |
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| | (of a salesperson) to visit potential customers with the aim of selling products or services | |
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| | the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66), which aimed to cleanse the politics, economy, organization and ideology of the Communist Party | |
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| | to take aim / (fig.) to aim one's looks at; to glance at | |
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| | to help sb accomplish his aim / to help sb succeed / to complete / to make whole / to round off | |
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| | to cross the sea by a trick (idiom) / to achieve one's aim by underhanded means | |
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| | imperial decree / purport / aim / purpose | |
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| | (language education) to read swiftly, aiming to get the gist / extensive reading | |
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| | high aims | |
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| | civil transport / movement aimed at the masses / democracy movement (abbr.) | |
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| | to aspire to the throne / to aim at (the first place etc) | |
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| | to bite off more than one can chew (idiom) / to aim too high | |
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| | sinology / Chinese studies (in foreign schools) / Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics | |
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| | dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success / You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up. / Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty. | |
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| | better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom) / one should take practical steps to achieve one's aim | |
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| | dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success / You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up. / Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty. | |
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| | to shoot without aim (idiom); fig. to speak without thinking / firing blindly / to shoot in the air / a shot in the dark | |
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| | request granted (formal usage in old document) / to aim (gun) | |
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| | lit. to rush at thin air / fig. to miss one's aim / to have nothing to show for one's troubles | |
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| | target / aim / objective / what one hopes to gain | |
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| | (coll.) gesture by an idol aimed at delighting fans (e.g. winking or throwing signed items); to interact with fans in such a manner (loanword from Japanese "fansābisu" – literally, "fan service") | |
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| | "double carbon", i.e. peak carbon 碳達峰|碳达峰 and carbon neutrality 碳中和 / China's double carbon policy, announced in 2020, which aims to reach peak carbon use by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 | |
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| | the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism) | |
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| | ideological and political education (abbr. for 思想政治教育) (state-directed education in China aimed at promoting Marxism, patriotism and socialist values, particularly in schools and universities – also, more broadly, ideological guidance in workplaces, media and public discourse) | |
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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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| | Hongmen feast / (fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest / refers to a famous episode in 206 BC when future Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 escaped attempted murder by his rival Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 | |
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| | (slang) maiden; young lady (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 乙女 "otome", used esp. to refer to romantic media and games aimed at women) | |
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| | the mass line, CCP term for Party policy aimed at broadening and cultivating contacts with the masses | |
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| | Taiwan political movement aimed at forcing the resignation of President Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁|陈水扁 in 2006 over corruption allegations | |
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| | super-ministry system (reform aimed at streamlining government department functions) | |
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| | Green Wall of China, a massive afforestation program on the eastern margin of the Gobi Desert aimed at stopping the desert's expansion, started in 1978 and planned to be completed by 2050 | |
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| | dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success / You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up. / Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty. | |
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| | (neologism c. 2013) organized disruption of healthcare facilities or verbal and physical abuse of medical staff by an aggrieved patient or proxies such as family members or hired thugs, typically aimed at obtaining compensation | |
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| | to succeed through failure / to achieve one's final aim despite apparent setback | |
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| | mixed ownership reform (strategy aimed at enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of state-owned enterprises) | |
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| | (PRC) Double Reduction Policy, announced in 2021, aiming to ease pressure on K-12 students by reducing homework and banning for-profit after-school academic classes | |
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| | to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom) / to fail utterly in trying to copy something / to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result | |
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| | same sign, joint aim (idiom); fig. completely compatible / identical | |
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| | the aims of education: morality, intelligence, physical fitness and aesthetic sense | |
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| | lit. not aiming to achieve the best possible result, but rather trying to avoid making mistakes (idiom) / fig. to take a risk-averse approach | |
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| | to strive for mastery (idiom); aiming for the best result / to have high ambitions | |
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| | kansei engineering (product design that aims to engender specific subjective responses in the consumer) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 感性工学 "kansei kougaku") | |
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| | the Great Sparrow Campaign or the Four Pests Campaign, one of the actions during the Great Leap Forward 大躍進|大跃进 aiming to eliminate four pests: rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows | |
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| | to aim low / to aim to get by / without lofty ambition | |
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| | to aim in front of a moving target | |
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