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apprentice / disciple
HSK 6
Protestant / adherent of Protestantism
apprentice / to serve an apprenticeship
a crafty villain
apostle
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surname Tu
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(bound form) disciple; apprentice; believer; (derog.) wrongdoer (as in 騙徒|骗徒 "swindler" or 叛徒 "traitor" etc) / (bound form) on foot / (bound form) bare; empty / (bound form) to no avail; in vain / (bound form) merely; just; only / (bound form) prison sentence
evildoer / malefactor / gangster / hoodlum
HSK 7-9
believer
runaway (idiom); desperate criminal / fugitive
saint
to be on foot
HSK 7-9
disciple / follower of a religion
prisoner
traitor / turncoat / rebel / renegade / insurgent
Buddhist
a Christian
clique member / henchman / gang member / crony
Christian
Catholic / follower of Catholicism
(Tw) car-free zone / pedestrian zone
futile
gangster
Hindu / adherent of Hinduism
with bare hands / unarmed / fighting hand-to-hand / freehand (drawing)
Dantu, a district of Zhenjiang City 鎮江市|镇江市, Jiangsu
lecher / womanizer / dirty old man
a Daoist / a follower of Daoism
if you are lazy in your prime, you'll be sorry in your old age
to work to no avail (idiom)
limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment)
freehand drawing
hiking
two-character surname Situ
minister of land and people (in ancient times)
A famous teacher trains a fine student (idiom). A cultured man will have a deep influence on his successors.
member of another religion / heathen / pagan / heretic / apostate
Puritan
gangster / bandit
John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962), second-generation American missionary in China, first president of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China
As the teacher, so the pupil. (idiom)
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
adherent of religion / disciple
gambler
cheat / swindler
brilliant student
bandit / thug / ruffian
life imprisonment
hoodlum / bad guy
follower of wine and women / dissolute person
prison sentence
(self-deprecating) to have grown old without accomplishing anything (idiom)
to feel powerless and full of shame (idiom)
to possess an undeserved reputation (idiom)
Acts of the Apostles (New Testament)
busybody
desperado
lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched
(saying) water that is too clear has no fish, and one who is too severe has no friends
with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be
title of a Daoist priest / revered master
futile endeavor (idiom)
with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be
disciple
apprentice / trainee worker
master and disciple
in vain
(of a plant) to experience excessive vegetative growth (at the expense of flowering or fruiting)
Buddhist monks
Master Dengtu, a famous historical lecherous character / lecher; skirt-chaser
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
drunkard
glutton / gourmand / by extension, person who is greedy for power, money, sex etc
(archaic) barefooted and barebreasted
gambler
to only have
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
hiking trail
vain regrets of old age (idiom)


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