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to move up and down / to undulate / ups and downs
HSK 7-9
to ambush / to lie in wait for / to lie low / ambush
HSK 7-9
up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession / no sooner one subsides, the next arises / repeating continuously / occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc)
HSK 7-9
vodka (loanword)
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to lean over / to fall (go down) / to hide (in ambush) / to conceal oneself / to lie low / hottest days of summer / to submit / to concede defeat / to overcome / to subdue / volt
foreshadowing (literary device); foretaste of material to come (in an essay or story)
Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋)
Fuxi or Fu Hsi, legendary Chinese emperor 2852-2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing, trapping, and writing
Voltaire (1694-1778), Enlightenment philosopher
incubation period (of disease)
to subdue / to vanquish / to tame
the second of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which begins in late July and lasts either 10 or 20 days, depending on the Chinese calendar in that year
to be ambushed
ambush / to ambush
Fuxi, legendary Chinese emperor, trad. 2852-2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing, trapping and writing
to lie in wait / to ambush / to conceal sth
hibernation / living in seclusion
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations
volt (loanword)
one climax follows another (of thrilling story)
push-up (exercise)
to crouch (of animal)
to be executed
see 三伏
to prepare an ambush / to waylay
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. aged person with great aspirations
see 初伏
to hide / to lie low
see 三伏
nocturnal / to hide by day and come out at night
to vanquish dragons and tigers (idiom)
tribe of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people
Kliment Voroshilov (1881-1969), Soviet politician and military commander
to overpower / to overwhelm / to subdue / to check / to control
to lie prostrate
to lie prostrate; to prostrate oneself (in veneration)
(of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat
to mark the start of the hottest period of the year, known as 三伏天
to lie prostrate
to pacify / to calm / calm / quiet / to lie on one's belly
hidden troops / ambush
Voodoo
Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), Italian scientist
hidden genius (idiom)
to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom)
to be executed
hidden stream / ground stream
to curl up / to lie with knees drawn up / to huddle up
thoughts surging in one's mind (idiom) / different thoughts coming to mind
to crouch low and bend forward (esp. in hiding or in wait)
to come to the end of the hottest period of the year (known as 三伏)
variant of 服侍
the three annual periods of hot weather, namely 初伏, 中伏 and 末伏, which run consecutively over a period from mid-July to late August
to bend over one's desk (writing, studying, taking a nap etc)
the first of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which typically begins in mid-July and lasts 10 days
variant of 服罪
summer flood
volt-ampere (measure of apparent power in alternating current circuits)
mega electron volt (MeV) (unit of energy equal to 1.6 x 10⁻¹³ joules)
variant of 匍匐
variant of 伏羲
variant of 服輸|服输
to subdue a tiger / fig. to prevail over sinister forces
foreshadowing (literary device)
to crouch / to lie prone
lying down / to lie prostrate / prone
to hide / to cover up / to conceal
the third of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which typically runs over the middle ten days of August
photovoltaic (e.g. cell)
Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
Fu Mingxia (1978-), Chinese diving champion
Volga River
photovoltaic device (e.g. solar cell)
Volgograd, Russian city on the Volga River 伏爾加河|伏尔加河
Funiu mountain range in southwest Henan, an eastern extension of Qinling range 秦嶺山脈|秦岭山脉, Shaanxi
voltmeter
variant of 服辯|服辩
nucleus accumbens (anatomy)
kilovolt
danger lurks on every side (idiom)
giga electron volt GeV (unit of energy equal to 1.6 x 10⁻¹⁰ joules)
variant of 壓服|压服
variant of 收服
to obey / faithfully following instructions / to admit guilt
Avogadro's number (chemistry)
electron volt (unit of energy used in particle physics, approximately 10⁻¹⁹ joules)
electronvolt (eV)


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