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the top and bottom of sth / the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom / to go up and down / before and after (as in 上下文 "context") / (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so / (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦 "harmony between superiors and subordinates") / all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下 "the entire nation") / relative superiority (as in 不相上下 "evenly matched")
HSK 5
equally matched / about the same
HSK 7-9
all over / from head to toe
to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint / fig. conspiring to defraud
the entire nation / the whole country, from the leadership to the rank and file
to start and finish work
Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History in three volumes by Cao Yuzhang 曹餘章|曹余章
bunk bed
bunk bed
not to know one's place
(textual) context
context menu (computing)
lit. knives rain down from the sky (idiom) / fig. (even if) the sky crumbles


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