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


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