| | to eat; to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate; to destroy / to absorb / to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc) | HSK 1 |
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| | to have a meal / to eat / to make a living | HSK 1 |
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| | tasty; delicious | HSK 1 |
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| | to entail strenuous effort / to toil at a task / strenuous / laborious / strain | HSK 5 |
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| | street food; snack | HSK 4 |
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| | lit. to eat, drink, play and be merry (idiom) / fig. to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to suffer losses / to come to grief / to lose out / to get the worst of it / to be at a disadvantage / unfortunately | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be startled / to be shocked / to be amazed | HSK 4 |
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| | to eat raw | |
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| | way of eating / how something is eaten / how a dish is prepared / the way a dish is to be cooked | |
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| | (coll.) to serve time in prison; (Tw) (sarcastic) to live off the prison system (getting free meals) | |
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| | to finish eating | |
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| | to eat one's fill | |
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| | vegetative existence / to consume passively without doing anything useful | |
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| | peanut gallery (esp. in online forums) / onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it / (neologism c. 2016) | |
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| | lit. eating away next year's food in advance / fig. to dip into the next month's check / live now, pay later | |
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| | dinner invitations, grabbing, obstructing and demanding bribes / all kinds of abuse of power | |
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| | (neologism c. 2016) (slang) to watch an entertaining spectacle from the sidelines and-or engage in gossip about it | |
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| | food and clothing | |
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| | to suffer / to suffer for one's actions / to pay dearly / to burn one's fingers | |
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| | to eat and drink / food and drink | |
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| | to be taken advantage of | |
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| | to live off a woman | |
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| | (idiom) astounded; flabbergasted; taken aback | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be a vegetarian | |
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| | to stammer; to stutter / Taiwan pr. [kou3ji2] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom) | |
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| | (Tw) all-you-can-eat (food) / (fig.) unlimited usage (digital services etc) | |
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| | to eat and drink as much as one likes / to make a pig of oneself | |
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| | unable to get anything to eat / to miss a meal | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) food | |
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| | to bring trouble on oneself | |
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| | to gorge oneself / to pig out | |
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| | to dine and dash / to leave without paying | |
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| | lit. to go dining, wining, whoring and gambling (idiom) / fig. to lead a life of dissipation | |
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| | to eat and drink extravagantly / to binge | |
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| | lit. to want to get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. to try to achieve one's goal in the shortest time possible / to be impatient for success | |
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| | to graze; to eat grass | |
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| | (neologism c. 2019) (coll.) to gather dust | |
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| | to shock / to amaze | |
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| | exploitative / oppressive | |
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| | in short supply / dire / tense / critical / hard-pressed / important | |
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| | eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw) | |
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| | to gorge oneself with food | |
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| | susceptible to force but not persuasion | |
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| | to eat on the sly / to pilfer food / to be unfaithful | |
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| | (coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing | |
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| | to cost one dearly / to end disastrously / to pay bitterly | |
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| | to bear hardships | HSK 7-9 |
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| | glutton | |
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| | to eat without paying / to freeload | |
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| | lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom) / amenable to coaxing but not coercion | |
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| | one cannot achieve glory and wealth without having been through trials and tribulations (proverb) / no pain, no gain | |
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| | to provide full board | |
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| | to be fond of eating; to be gluttonous | |
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| | lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom) / not content with what one already has / (of men, typically) to have the wandering eye | |
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| | (idiom) to devour (food) / (idiom) to shamelessly take advantage; to ruthlessly exploit | |
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| | lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom) / fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance | |
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| | lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom) / fig. to live well | |
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| | to eat out / to eat at a restaurant | |
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| | hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom) / one just has to be patient / haste will ruin everything | |
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| | (lit.) to have taken the wrong medicine / (fig.) (of one's behavior etc) different than usual / abnormal | |
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| | (slang) unattractive; ugly (derived from near homophone 醜|丑) | |
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| | (of a role) arduous / important / (a vehicle's) loading capacity | |
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| | lit. you cannot get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. any significant achievement requires time, effort and persistence | |
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| | to be forced to suffer in silence / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering | |
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| | (neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items) | |
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| | food and lodging / to stay (at some place) and eat meals (there) | |
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| | popular / in demand / well regarded | |
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| | to abstain from eating meat / to be a vegetarian | |
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| | sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them | |
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| | Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes. | |
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| | to be jealous | |
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| | A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine | |
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| | to face legal action; to get sued | |
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| | not to be trifled with / to be reckoned with | |
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| | lit. a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying) / fig. even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood | |
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| | to lead an idle life; to be a loafer | |
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| | to be refused entrance; to find the door closed | |
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| | (Tw) (of the police) to bury a crime (i.e. conceal the existence of a criminal case in order to improve crime-solving statistics or in return for a bribe etc) | |
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| | to eat up / to consume | |
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| | lit. a good horse doesn't turn around and graze the same patch again (idiom) / fig. once you've moved on, don't go back again (romantic relationship, job etc) / leave the past behind | |
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| | to upset (one's stomach) by eating bad food or overeating | |
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| | to take medicine | |
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| | to be sick of eating (sth); to be tired of eating (sth) | |
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| | to be on the government payroll | |
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| | to be given special treatment / to be treated in a favored way | |
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| | to be able to endure (exertion, fatigue etc) / to be able to afford | |
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| | mukbang, genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience | |
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| | lit. a child who cries gets to feed at the breast (idiom) / fig. the squeaky wheel gets the grease | |
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| | to freeload | |
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| | sufferings brought about by Confucian ethics | |
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| | lit. to eat from government coffers / to serve as a government employee / to live off government money | |
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| | taking or eating more than one's due (idiom); greedy and selfish | |
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| | to stuff oneself with food | |
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| | to suck the breast (for milk) | |
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| | (lit.) to have swallowed gunpowder / (fig.) to be ablaze with anger / ornery / snappy | |
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