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HSK
after / later / afterwards / following / later on / in the future
HSK 2
can / may / possible / able to / not bad / pretty good
HSK 2
to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
HSK 2
before / formerly / previous / ago
HSK 2
that level or higher; that amount or more / the above-mentioned / (used to indicate that one has completed one's remarks) That is all.
HSK 2
and; as well as
HSK 4
within / less than
HSK 4
that level or lower / that amount or less / the following
HSK 2
therefore / as a result / so / the reason why
HSK 2
apart from / other than / except for / external / outside of / on the other side of / beyond
HSK 2
in addition / moreover / (used before a disyllabic verb to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned) / to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb) / to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth)
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *以* | 以* | *以
to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place)
HSK 7-9
so that / so as to / in order to
HSK 5
since (a previous event)
HSK 3
able to / so that sb can / enabling / in order to / finally in a position to / with sth in view
HSK 5
hard to (predict, imagine etc)
HSK 5
in the past; formerly
HSK 5
to such an extent as to / down to / up to
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *以* | 以* | *以
abbr. for Israel 以色列
from now on / henceforward
HSK 7-9
not to accept as correct (idiom); to object / to disapprove / to take exception to
HSK 7-9
down to / up to / to such an extent as to ... / also written 以至於|以至于
down to / up to / to the extent that...
HSK 7-9
Ethereum
to do at all costs / to make an all-out effort
HSK 7-9
to give / to impose / to apply
HSK 7-9
to believe oneself infallible (idiom) / to be opinionated
HSK 7-9
(loanword) ether (hypothetical medium that transmits light waves)
to pursue unremittingly (idiom); to persevere
HSK 7-9
sufficient to... / so much so that / so that
HSK 6
for a long time
HSK 7-9
(idiom) (of a principle, purpose etc) consistently upheld; adhered to from beginning to end
(literary) why / how
so that / to the point that
may not
Israeli soldiers
to thump repeatedly with one's fist
in order to avoid / so as not to
HSK 7-9
how can this be endured! (idiom)
to use one's neighbor as a drain / to shift one's problems onto others (idiom)
supplemented by / accompanied by / with
and so on / in a similar fashion
Mao Yisheng (1896-1989), Chinese structural engineer and social activist
one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short / in a nutshell
more than half
to the east of (suffix)
in the past always / for a long time now / until now
not to become attached to material things, not to pity oneself
without rules, how can anything be done (idiom); one must follow some rules
(idiom) to deal with varying circumstances by adhering to a basic principle
to the west of (suffix)
to take sth to be true
using the weak to defeat the strong (idiom); to win from a position of weakness
in order to
to regard it as an honor (idiom)
Ethernet
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime (idiom)
to wait at one's ease for the exhausted enemy / to nurture one's strength and bide one's time (idiom)
(math.) multiplied with
countless / innumerable
night and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort
HSK 7-9
an Israeli / an Israelite
to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model
HSK 7-9
(idiom) since birth; for one's whole life
Book of Esther
not to mind / unconcerned
to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties) / Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)
(of a woman) to give one's heart (to sb); (fig.) to devote oneself wholeheartedly to sb or sth
switched Ethernet
using the few to defeat the many (idiom); to win from a position of weakness
(so as) to avoid / to prevent / (just) in case
to disrespect one's superiors / to offend one's elders
to give one's body for the nation (idiom); to spend one's whole life in the service of the country
words of truth / moral expressed in words / written article explaining a moral
(idiom) to pass off the fake as genuine; to blur the line between fake and real so convincingly that the fake is mistaken for the real thing
not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers
(lit.) to take a part for the whole / to generalize
to learn from history (idiom)
since (some point in the past)
Food is the God of the people. (idiom); People view food as the primary need. / Food first, ethical niceties second
to number in the thousands
to be strict with oneself (idiom) / to demand a lot of oneself
to use it (or do it) for the purpose of (allaying hunger, relieving boredom etc) to some extent
use Chinese collaborators to subdue the Chinese (imperialist policy)
to take sth as a warning (idiom) / to draw a lesson from a case where things turned out badly
lit. to wipe one's eyes and wait (idiom); to wait and see
to bathe one's face in tears (idiom)
an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (idiom) / fig. to use the enemy's methods against him / to give sb a taste of his own medicine
in order to / hoping to / attempting to / waiting for
Israeli-Palestinian
by way of / to serve as
(after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P / Example: 我之所以討厭他|我之所以讨厌他 "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)"
HSK 7-9
to consider sth regrettable (idiom)
to have one's wish fulfilled
HSK 7-9
hard to accomplish / difficult to achieve
to challenge the law (idiom) / to knowingly violate the law
to provide work to relieve poverty
to be prepared for accidents
to snort disdainfully / to scoff at / to turn up one's nose

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