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| | period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort | HSK 3 |
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| | skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort | HSK 3 |
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| | husband | HSK 4 |
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| | a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL: 對|对 | HSK 4 |
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| | husband and wife; married couple | HSK 4 |
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| | lady / madam / Mrs. / CL: 位 | HSK 4 |
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| | golf / golf ball | HSK 7-9 |
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| | husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old) | |
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| | (classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion) | |
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| | Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc. | |
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| | fisherman | |
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| | peasant / farmer | |
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| | to force into service / press-gang | |
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| | Steve (male name) | |
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| | married man | |
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| | Slavic | |
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| | porter | |
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| | night watchman (in former times) | |
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| | street cleaner / garbage collector / (soccer) sweeper | |
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| | golf (loanword) | |
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| | First Lady (wife of US president) | |
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| | Yugoslavia, 1943-1992 | |
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| | (old) dowager / old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official) | |
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| | Jeff Kinney | |
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| | Nongfu Spring, Chinese bottled water and beverage company | |
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| | Gustave Dore (1832-1883), French artist and sculptor | |
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| | Gorbachev / Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931-2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1991-1995 | |
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| | mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister | |
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| | to spend a great deal of time and effort / (of a task) demanding / exacting | |
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| | similarity in features of an old couple / common facial traits that show predestination to be married together | |
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| | Cardiff | |
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| | Khufu (pharaoh, reigned possibly 2590-2568 BC) | |
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| | the Maldives (Tw) | |
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| | former husband | |
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| | Lamivudine, reverse transcriptase inhibitor marketed by GlaxoSmithKline and widely used in the treatment of hepatitis B and AIDS / brand names include Zeffix, Heptovir, Epivir and Epivir-HBV | |
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| | appearing to be praising others while actually praising yourself / one's criticism of others exposes one's own faults | |
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| | Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer / Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright | |
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| | Pavlov (name) / Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian experimental psychologist | |
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| | boatman | |
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| | a lot of people (literary) | |
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| | Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American author and biochemist | |
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| | senior official (in imperial China) | |
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| | Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of ( 平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake) | |
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| | fiancé | |
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| | I (spoken by an old man) | |
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| | (coll.) older sister's husband | |
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| | authority over the household | |
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| | Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964 | |
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| | Najaf (city in Iraq, a Shia holy city) | |
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| | the Maldives | |
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| | Tel Aviv / Tel Aviv-Jaffa | |
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| | burlak (barge hauler) | |
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| | (old) concubine | |
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| | Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer | |
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| | (old) laborer | |
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| | Medvedyev (name) / Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2008 | |
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| | A leader can submit or can stand tall as required. / ready to give and take / flexible | |
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| | waffle (loanword) | |
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| | Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004 | |
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| | very concentrated type of tea drunk in Chaozhou, Fujian and Taiwan | |
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| | Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars) / (used sarcastically) pedant | |
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| | Wolf, Woolf (name) | |
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| | Jeff or Geoff (name) | |
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| | lit. having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom) / fig. to suffer a double loss after trying to trick the enemy | |
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| | Braşov, Romania | |
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| | Ralph (name) | |
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| | married woman | |
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| | Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔子 | |
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| | Hofmann or Hoffman (name) / August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), German chemist / Dustin Hoffman (1937-), US film actor | |
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| | (coll.) he-man | |
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| | porter for a palanquin | |
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| | Khabarovsk, far eastern Russian city and province on the border with Heilongjiang province of China | |
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| | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays | |
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| | lit. unbeatable by even 10,000 men (idiom) / fig. extremely brave and strong | |
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| | honorific title during Tang to Qing times, approx. "Glorious grand master" | |
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| | (idiom) (of a woman) promiscuous; loose | |
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| | very concentrated type of tea consumed in Chaozhou, Fujian and Taiwan / variant of 功夫茶 | |
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| | Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria | |
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| | porter / bearer | |
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| | fig. the man sings and the woman follows / fig. marital harmony | |
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| | man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife | |
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| | Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table | |
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| | to put in time and energy / to concentrate one's efforts | |
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| | to practice (work skills) | |
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| | Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer | |
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| | rickshaw puller | |
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| | Amah Rock in Sha Tin 沙田, Hong Kong | |
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| | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚 | |
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| | married man; husband (as a social role) | |
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| | old wifeless man; bachelor; widower | |
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| | younger sister's husband | |
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| | sole ruler / dictator | |
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| | butcher / fig. murderous dictator | |
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| | (literary) husband | |
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| | tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator | |
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| | The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society. | |
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| | family-run shop | |
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