| | teacher / husband / doctor (dialect) / CL: 位 | HSK 1 |
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| | early / prior / former / in advance / first | HSK 3 |
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| | first (of all) / in the first place | HSK 4 |
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| | in advance / before the event / beforehand / prior | HSK 5 |
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| | advanced (technology) / to advance | HSK 6 |
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| | to lead / to be in front | HSK 6 |
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| | to have priority / to take precedence | HSK 6 |
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| | beforehand / in advance | HSK 6 |
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| | before / previously | HSK 6 |
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| | ancestor / forebears | HSK 6 |
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| | originally / original / former | HSK 6 |
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| | vanguard / pioneer / avant-garde | |
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| | Mister (Mr.) | |
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| | early or late / priority / in succession / one after another | |
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| | to rush (to do sth urgent) / to try to be the first / to forestall | |
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| | to precede others / in advance | |
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| | key moment / decisive opportunity | |
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| | to take the lead / to show initiative | |
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| | prophet | |
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| | (official accolade) advanced team / exemplary group | |
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| | guide / forerunner / pioneer | |
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| | vanguard | |
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| | to compete to be first / to contest first place | |
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| | to take preemptive action / (sports) to be in the starting lineup / (of a baseball pitcher) to be the starting pitcher | |
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| | priority / sth advocated first / refers to ancient tradition: Worship the river first, then the sea. | |
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| | pioneer | |
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| | pre-Qin, Chinese history up to the foundation of the Qin imperial dynasty in 221 BC | |
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| | lead(ing) position | |
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| | precondition / prerequisite | |
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| | inborn / innate / natural | |
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| | (official accolade) advanced individual / exemplary individual | |
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| | order of priority / sequential order | |
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| | daring vanguard / pioneer / leading figure | |
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| | advanced level | |
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| | martyr | |
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| | (computing, inventory management etc) first in, first out | |
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| | to dare to be first / to pioneer (idiom) | |
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| | a priori (philosophy) | |
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| | preferred stock | |
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| | to take the lead | |
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| | joy of first experience (idiom) / the pleasure of reading sth for the first time | |
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| | to come first / previous / prior / beforehand / first / formerly | |
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| | Mr. Bean (TV) | |
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| | elders / former generations | |
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| | prerequisite / precondition | |
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| | at first / in the beginning | |
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| | first come first served | |
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| | in advance / beforehand / premature / front-end | |
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| | omen | |
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| | shilling (loanword) | |
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| | a long way in front / to lead by a wide margin | |
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| | martyr to the revolution | |
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| | foresight | |
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| | famous and virtuous ancestors / the great men of the past | |
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| | preliminary notification / to announce in advance | |
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| | fortune-teller | |
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| | pioneer | |
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| | striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another | |
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| | worthy predecessor / distinguished person of the past / former sage | |
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| | first decapitate then present your trophy (idiom); act first, report later | |
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| | Young Pioneers of China (primary school league, a preparation for Communist Youth League) / abbr. to 少先隊|少先队 | |
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| | Ladies first! | |
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| | no first use (policy for nuclear weapons) / NFU | |
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| | "Mr Science", phrase used during the May 4th Movement 五四運動|五四运动 / abbr. for 賽因斯|赛因斯 / see also 德先生 | |
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| | person with foresight | |
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| | deceased grandfather / ancestry | |
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| | feng shui master / geomancer / stock figure in folk tales, as a wise adviser or a charlatan | |
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| | advance party / advance troops | |
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| | in advance / ahead / before / previously | |
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| | prior / preexisting | |
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| | advanced weapon | |
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| | To do a good job, an artisan needs the best tools (idiom). Good tools are prerequisite to the successful execution of a job | |
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| | to come late and leave first / last in, first out (LIFO) | |
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| | avant-garde | |
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| | forebears | |
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| | previously / before | |
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| | herald / precursor / harbinger | |
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| | To do a good job, an artisan needs the best tools (idiom). Good tools are prerequisite to the successful execution of a job | |
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| | to gain the initiative by striking first (idiom); to preempt / to anticipate / preemptive | |
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| | antecedent / precedent | |
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| | ancestors / previous generations / my late father | |
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| | to take precedence | |
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| | the first impression is the strongest / to hold a preconceived notion (about sth) | |
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| | of all virtues filial piety is most important (idiom) | |
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| | Li Xiannian (1909-1992), PRC general and politician | |
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| | strike first and gain the upper hand (idiom, martial arts term); Making the first move is an advantage. | |
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| | The first concern is affairs of state, enjoying the pleasure comes later. Quotation from essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记 by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹 | |
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| | (dialect) before / in the past / previously | |
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| | peaceful measures before using force (idiom); diplomacy before violence / jaw-jaw is better than war-war | |
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| | to gain the upper hand by a show of strength | |
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| | Mr Goody-goody / yes-man (sb who agrees with anything) | |
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| | "he failed to complete his quest before death" (line from the poem "The Premier of Shu" 蜀相 by Du Fu 杜甫) | |
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| | the guilty party files the suit / the thief cries thief | |
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| | prior probability (statistics) | |
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| | pioneer / trailbreaker | |
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| | to marry after getting pregnant | |
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| | predictable / sth one can predict without being a clairvoyant | |
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| | congenital deficiency / inherent weakness | |
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| | the quick-footed climb up first (idiom) / the early bird catches the worm / first come, first served | |
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