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to feel embarrassed / to find it embarrassing / to be sorry (for inconveniencing sb)
HSK 2
idea / opinion / meaning / wish / desire / interest / fun / token of appreciation, affection etc / CL: 個|个 / to give as a small token / to do sth as a gesture of goodwill etc
HSK 2
interesting / meaningful / enjoyable / fun
HSK 2
thought / thinking / idea / ideology / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to reflect on / to ponder over
HSK 4
(line of) thought / thinking
HSK 5
to design / to plot / to plan out / to compose / to draw a mental sketch / conception / plan / idea / composition
HSK 7-9
line of thought; way of thinking
HSK 7-9
to think back over sth / to review / to revisit / to rethink / reflection / reassessment
HSK 7-9
mind / thoughts / inclination / mood
HSK 7-9
to contemplate / to ponder / contemplation / meditation
HSK 7-9
to think of / to long for / to miss
HSK 7-9
to think deeply / to ponder
HSK 7-9
to ponder / to consider
HSK 7-9
to indulge in flights of fancy (idiom) / to let one's imagination run wild
HSK 7-9
boring / of no interest
HSK 7-9
to consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future / to ponder over reasons and connection
HSK 7-9
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German socialist philosopher, political activist and founder of Marxism
Versace (fashion designer)
Marx (name) / Karl Marx (1818-1883), German revolutionary, economist and historian
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to think / to consider
IELTS (International English Language Testing System)
to turn over in one's mind (idiom); to think through from different angles / to ponder
to think critically / (philosophy) to reason; to speculate
to remain puzzled after pondering over sth a hundred times (idiom) / to remain perplexed despite much thought
train of thought / emotional state / mood / feeling
Sinan, a county in Tongren 銅仁市|铜仁市, Guizhou
as the name implies
to imagine; to comprehend (usu. used in the negative, as in 不可思議|不可思议 "inconceivable")
mature reflection / after careful deliberations
(idiom) inconceivable; unimaginable; unfathomable
to yearn / to pine
to reckon / to consider / to turn over in one's mind
Simao city in Yunnan, renamed Pu'er city 普洱市 in 2007
to be homesick
Genghis Khan (1162-1227), founder and ruler of the Mongol Empire
innovative thinking / ingenuity
to be anxious and worried / agitated / pensive
to ponder / to reckon / to turn sth over in one's mind
to have the nerve / what a cheek! / to feel no shame / to overcome the shame / (is it) proper? (rhetorical question)
to think of danger in times of safety / to be vigilant in peacetime (idiom)
to cherish the memory of sb / to think of with respect
collecting opinions is of wide benefit (idiom); to pool wisdom for mutual benefit / to profit from widespread suggestions
to miss / to long for
indulge in pleasure and forget home and duty (idiom)
spring mattress (loanword from "Simmons" bedding company name)
to yearn for sth day and night (idiom)
to set one's heart on sth (idiom)
lit. when you drink water, think of its source (idiom); gratitude for blessings and their well-spring / Don't forget where your happiness come from. / Be grateful for all your blessings!
to reflect on one's past errors
(idiom) to act without taking time to think; to react instantly; to fire from the hip
to fancy from afar / reverie / wild and fanciful thoughts
Siming, a district of Xiamen 廈門市|厦门市, Fujian
state of mind
(idiom) thought-provoking / to give one food for thought
Shangsi County in Fangchenggang 防城港, Guangxi
see a worthy, think to imitate (idiom, from Analects); emulate the virtuous / Follow the example of a virtuous and wise teacher.
to think hard / bitter thoughts / to pour out one's sufferings
imaginative power / creativeness
to think of the pain when the pain is gone (idiom) / to ponder about a painful experience
to change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty / never satisfied with what one has
to miss / to long for
(idiom) looking pensive; thoughtfully
to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard / to rack one's brains
(idiom) to think deeply; to rack one's brains
shut oneself up and ponder over one's mistakes
to dig for thoughts (idiom); to search everything for an answer / to rack one's brains
think three times then go (idiom); don't act before you've thought it through carefully
thoughts surging in one's mind (idiom) / different thoughts coming to mind
(idiom) to fondly remember a person on seeing sth one associates with them
deliberation
to mull over (idiom) / to think long and hard
Cisco Systems Company
Sauvignon blanc (grape type)
to consider / to ponder
age when girls start to develop feelings for the opposite sex / puberty
thinker
quick-witted / agile of mind
ideological and political education (abbr. for 思想政治教育) (state-directed education in China aimed at promoting Marxism, patriotism and socialist values, particularly in schools and universities – also, more broadly, ideological guidance in workplaces, media and public discourse)
to put oneself in sb else’s shoes
Simao city in Yunnan, renamed Pu'er city 普洱市 in 2007
doubly homesick for our dear ones at each festive day (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维)
to think / to exercise one's mind
lovesickness
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚
beautiful thoughts (in writing)
to do a little something as a token of one's appreciation / to express one's gratitude or esteem by treating sb to a meal or presenting a gift
myth (loanword)
intellectual history
Marxism
to ponder a solution; to consider (the best move, how to find a way etc)
variant of 思維|思维
new ideas
variant of 繆斯|缪斯
to think through / to invest effort in thinking about / to consider thoroughly
one-sided lovesickness; unrequited longing
with the same idea in mind / with a common purpose
abstracted / absent-minded / in a trance

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