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right; correct / towards; at; for / concerning; regarding / to treat (sb a certain way) / to face / (bound form) opposite; facing; matching / to match together; to adjust / to fit; to suit / to answer; to reply / to add; to pour in (a fluid) / to check; to compare / classifier: couple; pair
HSK 1
to withstand / to resist / to stand off / antagonism / confrontation
HSK 6
to be ashamed to face (sb) / to feel bad about having failed (sb)
base pair (molecular biology)
The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)
to talk (with sb) / dialogue; conversation
HSK 2
confrontation / contest / showdown
incorrect / wrong / amiss / abnormal / queer
HSK 1
absolute; unconditional
HSK 3
target; object / partner; boyfriend; girlfriend / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to handle; to deal with; to tackle / to get by with; to make do / (dialect) (usu. used in the negative) to get along with (sb)
HSK 4
theory of relativity
I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon / to let (sb) down; to disappoint
HSK 1
(of mountains etc) to stand facing each other / (fig.) to confront each other
HSK 7-9
to disagree / I can't agree with that.
relative density
one-to-one; one-on-one
to pair off (for a confrontation)
foreign relations
rhyming couplet / pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
to look at each other
opposite bank (of a body of water)
not in good condition / wrong / fishy
adversary / opponent
a match made in heaven; a perfect couple
rival; competitor
(sitting) opposite / across (the street) / directly in front / to be face to face
HSK 2
lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it / to take appropriate steps
English-Chinese parallel text
to verify accounting records
to contrast / contrast / ratio / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to answer; to reply / to handle; to deal with / response
HSK 6
ground-to-air missile
regarding; as far as (sth) is concerned; with regard to
HSK 4
foreign trade
internal / national / domestic (policy)
the other person; the other side; the other party
HSK 3
face to face
HSK 6
right or wrong? / Is it right? / OK, yes? (colloquial)
symmetry / symmetrical
HSK 7-9
to oppose / to set sth against / to be antagonistic to / antithetical / relative opposite / opposing / diametrical
HSK 5
(policy etc) towards China
reserved seat; assigned seat
back to back
hostile / enemy (factions) / combative
Correct! / Oh, that's right, ... (when one suddenly remembers sth one wanted to mention) / Oh, by the way, ...
lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom) / fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience / to cast pearls before swine / caviar to the general / to preach to deaf ears / to talk over sb's head
dialogue (in a movie or a play)
HSK 7-9
to fit one into the other / to bring two things into contact
suitable; to one's liking / to get along together
color contrast
(psychology) contrastive association
to serve as foil to one another
special relativity
supersymmetry
foreign policy
to play go, chess etc
HSK 7-9
intercom / walkie-talkie
to one's taste / to one's liking
bilateral talks
enemy (idiom); opponent / arch-enemy
hedge fund
to exchange / to swap
to correspond (to); to be equivalent to; to be a counterpart to
HSK 5
University of International Business and Economics
pair of aces (in dominoes) / double one
proofreader / to proofread / to calibrate
to contrast / to compare / to place side by side for comparison (as parallel texts) / to check
HSK 7-9
to look face to face
to be left speechless / unable to respond
relatively / opposite / to resist / to oppose / relative / vis-a-vis / counterpart
HSK 7-9
opposition (political) party
control group
(meteorology) troposphere
intercom
(loanword) party
external / foreign / pertaining to external or foreign (affairs)
HSK 6
dual / duality / antithesis / coupled phrases (as rhetorical device) / spouse
to join up / to dock / a joint (between components)
logarithm
able to reply quickly and fluently (idiom); having a ready answer
relative address (computing)
a profit equal to the amount one invested / (math.) involution
to treat / treatment
HSK 3
not to let sb down / to treat sb fairly / be worthy of
HSK 7-9
Tsushima Strait, between Japan and South Korea
to scrutinize / to examine / to check
as far as I'm concerned
kilobase pair (molecular biology)
symmetry (as an aesthetic quality)
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
it's nothing personal (idiom)
fishy / not right / amiss
to confront / to face the enemy
focus / direction / purpose / relevance
enantiomer (chemistry)
(a return) equal to the capital / 100 percent profit
prawn / shrimp
bilateral symmetry
duel / match / competition between paired opponents (e.g. sporting)

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