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| | inextricably linked (idiom) / inseparable | HSK 7-9 |
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| | absolutely necessary / indispensable / essential | HSK 7-9 |
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| | impossible to resist (idiom); an irresistible force | HSK 7-9 |
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| | may not | |
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| | (idiom) inconceivable; unimaginable; unfathomable | |
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| | necessary / must have | |
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| | force majeure; act of God | |
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| | sacred / inviolable | |
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| | unstoppable / hard to hold back | |
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| | not a single one is dispensable / can't do without either | |
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| | to be awfully (busy etc) | |
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| | (idiom) invulnerable; indestructible; impregnable | |
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| | inalienable / unalienable / inseparable / indivisible | |
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| | unreliable | |
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| | one's contributions cannot go unnoticed (idiom) | |
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| | indelible | |
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| | No time to lose! (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) acceptable; fine; okay | |
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| | you can't judge a person by appearance (idiom) / you can't judge a book by its cover / often in combination 人不可貌相, 海水不可斗量 | |
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| | overjoyed (idiom); as pleased as punch | |
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| | Opportunity knocks but once. (idiom) | |
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| | lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom) / fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public | |
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| | to stink to high heaven / (fig.) disgraceful; disgusting | |
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| | uncountable | |
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| | countless / innumerable | |
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| | neither for nor against sth / indifferent | |
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| | incurable / incorrigible / beyond cure / hopeless | |
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| | uncountable noun (in grammar of European languages) | |
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| | agnosticism, the philosophical doctrine that some questions about the universe are in principle unanswerable | |
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| | deep and unmeasurable (idiom); unfathomable depths / incomprehensible / enigmatic and impossible to predict | |
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| | (idiom) to consider oneself unexcelled in the world; to be insufferably arrogant | |
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| | indescribable / beyond description | |
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| | you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot (idiom) | |
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| | lit. mustn't speak of two things on the same day (idiom); not to be mentioned in the same breath / incomparable | |
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| | hard to come by / rare | |
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| | inexpressible (idiom) / beyond description | |
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| | to be kept secret; not to be divulged | |
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| | unattainable / far-fetched / out of reach / exceedingly remote or distant | |
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| | to be unable to carry on even for a single day / to be in a desperate situation | |
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| | once it gets started there's no stopping it | |
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| | can be understood, but not described (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); mysterious and subtle | |
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| | unable to restrain one's anger (idiom); in a towering rage | |
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| | innumerable (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) one should not overindulge in pleasure | |
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| | too high to reach (idiom); eminent and unapproachable | |
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| | too wonderful for words | |
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| | act of God / force majeure (law) / irresistible (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) irremediable; unmanageable; out of hand; hopeless | |
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| | (idiom) impervious to reason; unreasonable | |
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| | cannot; should not; must not | |
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| | inexpressible (idiom) | |
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| | unable to wait | |
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| | (idiom) in sight but beyond reach; unattainable; inaccessible | |
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| | impassable / insurmountable / insuperable | |
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| | inestimable / incalculable / beyond measure | |
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| | impossibly stupid | |
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| | (idiom) impatient; eager to (do sth); unable to wait any longer | |
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| | intolerably vulgar | |
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| | inviolability | |
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| | unavoidable | |
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| | impossible / cannot / not able | |
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| | insoluble (i.e. impossible to solve) | |
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| | irreversible | |
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| | inviolable / inviolability | |
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| | irreversible | |
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| | can be discovered but not sought (idiom) / one can only come across such things serendipitously | |
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| | lit. the fish and the bear's paw, you can't have both at the same time (idiom, from Mencius); fig. you must choose one or the other / you can't always get everything you want / you can't have your cake and eat it | |
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| | refrain from hurting others, yet guard against those trying to hurt you (proverb) | |
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| | nothing is impossible / there's nothing impossible about it | |
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| | indispensable; essential | |
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| | unbelievable; incredible | |
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| | irreversible | |
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| | indispensable | |
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| | having no common measure / incommensurable / incommensurate | |
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| | a summer insect cannot discuss ice (idiom) | |
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| | you should not covet your friend's wife (idiom) | |
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| | opportunity knocks but once (idiom) | |
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| | to keep going resolutely despite knowing the task is impossible (idiom) | |
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| | Facebook (Internet slang, pun reading "you must die") | |
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| | lit. mysteries of heaven must not be revealed (idiom); must not be revealed / I am not at liberty to inform you. | |
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| | to double up with laughter (idiom) | |
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| | to be impossible to stop once started | |
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| | nonrenewable resource | |
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| | inseparable | |
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| | not differentiable (function in calculus) | |
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| | irrevocable letter of credit | |
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| | uncountable set (math.) | |
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| | impossible to get even an outline (idiom) / unfathomable / not a clue | |
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| | may be done once and once only; just this once | |
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| | can be understood, but not described (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); mysterious and subtle | |
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| | lit. mysteries of heaven must not be revealed (idiom); must not be revealed / I am not at liberty to inform you. | |
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| | lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom); fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public | |
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| | unable to refuse because of affection | |
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| | if this can be tolerated, what cannot? (idiom) / enough is enough | |
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| | lit. rotten wood cannot be carved (idiom) / fig. you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear | |
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