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| | still / yet / to value / to esteem | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to hold up (as an model) / to hold in esteem / to revere / to advocate | HSK 7-9 |
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| | fashion / fad / fashionable | HSK 7-9 |
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| | not yet; still not | HSK 7-9 |
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| | current custom / current way of doing things | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Buddhist monk | HSK 7-9 |
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| | surname Shang | |
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| | same as 書經|书经 Book of History | |
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| | high official / government minister | |
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| | not bad / satisfactory | |
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| | lit. proper behavior is based on reciprocity (idiom) / fig. to return politeness for politeness | |
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| | to promote a martial spirit / to revere military skills / warlike | |
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| | Shangzhi, county-level city in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨, Heilongjiang | |
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| | Shangyi county in Zhangjiakou 張家口|张家口, Hebei | |
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| | Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan | |
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| | Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang Buddhist monk, who crossed to Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism | |
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| | (not) even / yet / still | |
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| | variant of 尚方劍|尚方剑 / imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers) / in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill | |
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| | to value highly / to hold up sth as a model | |
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| | South Gyeongsang Province, in southeast South Korea, capital Changwon 昌原 | |
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| | lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom) / fig. at a total loss | |
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| | still remains; still exists; still has | |
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| | Yang Shangkun (1907-1998), former president of PRC and military leader | |
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| | lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom) / fig. everybody's business is nobody's business / (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.) | |
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| | lit. as a monk for today, toll today's bell (idiom) / fig. to do one's job mechanically / to hold a position passively | |
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| | lit. like a monk holding an umbrella — no hair, no sky (idiom) (punning on 髮|发 vs 法) / fig. defying the law and the principles of heaven / lawless | |
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| | Tanzania (Tw) | |
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| | to have a taste for the exotic (idiom) | |
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| | Kong Shangren (1648-1718), Qing dramatist and poet, author of The Peach Blossom Fan 桃花扇 | |
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| | lit. in the presence of a monk, insult another monk, calling him a bald-headed bandit (idiom) / fig. to insult indirectly; to criticize obliquely | |
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| | Shangzhi, county-level city in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨, Heilongjiang | |
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| | James Sasser (1936-), US Ambassador to China 1995-1999 | |
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| | imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers) / in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill | |
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| | Book of History / a compendium of documents in various styles, making up the oldest extant texts of Chinese history, from legendary times down to the times of Confucius | |
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| | ancient official title | |
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| | unsolved / as yet unsettled | |
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| | Zambia (Tw) | |
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| | not yet / not so far | |
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| | Shangyi county in Zhangjiakou 張家口|张家口, Hebei | |
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| | I beg you to partake of this sacrifice (used at the end of an elegiac address) | |
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| | North Gyeongsang Province, in east South Korea, capital Daegu 大邱 | |
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| | Gyeongsang Province of Joseon Korea, now divided into North Gyeongsang Province 慶尚北道|庆尚北道 and South Gyeongsang Province 慶尚南道|庆尚南道 | |
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| | Minister of Revenue (from the Han dynasty onwards) | |
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| | lit. to insult a bald man while pointing at a monk (idiom) / fig. to insult indirectly / to criticize obliquely | |
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| | customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners / O Tempora, O Mores! | |
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| | Sha Wujing | |
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| | Director of Board of Rites (Confucian) | |
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| | the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) / you can run this time, but you'll have to come back / I'll get you sooner or later / also written 跑得了和尚, 跑不了廟|跑得了和尚, 跑不了庙 | |
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| | the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) / you can run this time, but you'll have to come back / I'll get you sooner or later | |
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| | the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) / you can run this time, but you'll have to come back / I'll get you sooner or later | |
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| | the monk coming from afar is good at reading scriptures (idiom) / foreign talent is valued higher than local talent | |
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