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


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