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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
to feel embarrassed / to find it embarrassing / to be sorry (for inconveniencing sb)
HSK 2
thought / thinking / idea / ideology / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to reflect on / to ponder over
HSK 4
interesting / meaningful / enjoyable / fun
HSK 2
(line of) thought / thinking
HSK 5
(idiom) inconceivable; unimaginable; unfathomable
HSK 7-9
boring / of no interest
HSK 7-9
to think back over sth / to review / to revisit / to rethink / reflection / reassessment
HSK 7-9
to indulge in flights of fancy (idiom) / to let one's imagination run wild
HSK 7-9
to ponder / to consider
HSK 7-9
line of thought; way of thinking
HSK 7-9
Genghis Khan (1162-1227), founder and ruler of the Mongol Empire
(idiom) to act without taking time to think; to react instantly; to fire from the hip
HSK 7-9
to think of / to long for / to miss
HSK 7-9
growth mindset
to face the wall and ponder about one's misdeeds / to stand in the corner (punishment) / (fig.) to examine one's conscience
with the same idea in mind / with a common purpose
Sauvignon blanc (grape type)
consciousness
inner-spring mattress (loanword from US mattress brand "Simmons")
to contemplate / to ponder / contemplation / meditation
HSK 7-9
to think deeply / to ponder
HSK 7-9
to be anxious and worried / agitated / pensive
Mao Zedong Thought
feudal way of thinking
to have the nerve / what a cheek! / to feel no shame / to overcome the shame / (is it) proper? (rhetorical question)
(idiom) when you hit bottom, you have to come up with a new approach
to die / lit. to visit Marx / to pass away
think again and again before acting (idiom); consider carefully in advance
unimaginable / outrageous / freakish
to be homesick
indulge in pleasure and forget home and duty (idiom)
to consider / to turn over in one's mind
small token / mere trifle (used of one's gifts)
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
to think of danger in times of safety / to be vigilant in peacetime (idiom)
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to think / to consider
imaginative power / creativeness
new ideas
to think hard (idiom) / to give sth much thought
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)
boring / of no interest
Slurpee (drink)
to put oneself in sb else’s shoes
as the name implies
to ponder / to reckon / to turn sth over in one's mind
train of thought / emotional state / mood / feeling
intellectual history
to consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future / to ponder over reasons and connection
HSK 7-9
to design / to plot / to plan out / to compose / to draw a mental sketch / conception / plan / idea / composition
HSK 7-9
one-sided lovesickness; unrequited longing
To learn without thinking is confusing, to think without learning is dangerous (Confucius)
Marxism
Marxism-Leninism
to set one's heart on sth (idiom)
tide of thought / way of thinking characteristic of a historical period / Zeitgeist
to remain puzzled after pondering over sth a hundred times (idiom) / to remain perplexed despite much thought
Cisco Systems Company
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚 / also written 陀思妥耶夫斯基
Best Buy (retailer)
thinker
mind map
to yearn for sth day and night (idiom)
deliberation
sth weighing on one's mind
abstract thought / logical thinking
mind / thoughts / inclination / mood
HSK 7-9
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!
an unconventional but wonderful idea
Scarlett (name) / also written 斯嘉麗|斯嘉丽
exchange of ideas
blunt thinking / apathy
doubly homesick for our dear ones at each festive day (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维)
to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard / to rack one's brains
homesickness
deep-seated lovesickness (idiom)
system of thought / ideology
state of mind
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚
Siming, a district of Xiamen City 廈門市|厦门市, Fujian
(idiom) thought-provoking / to give one food for thought
to ponder a solution; to consider (the best move, how to find a way etc)
Simao city in Yunnan, renamed Pu'er city 普洱市 in 2007
to think critically / (philosophy) to reason; to speculate
to reckon / to consider / to turn over in one's mind
political thought / ideology
to fancy from afar / reverie / wild and fanciful thoughts
Jia Sixie, sixth century writer and author of agricultural encyclopedia Essential skill to benefit the people 齊民要術|齐民要术
(slang) (used at the end of a sentence to mimic Korean speech) (loanword from Korean verb ending "seumnida") / (jocular) a Korean
to rack one's brains / to think hard
Juche Idea (North Korean ideology of political, economic and military independence)
innovative thinking / ingenuity
to imagine; to comprehend (usu. used in the negative, as in 不可思議|不可思议 "inconceivable")
Marx (name) / Karl Marx (1818-1883), German revolutionary, economist and historian
(idiom) to fondly remember a person on seeing sth one associates with them
think three times then go (idiom); don't act before you've thought it through carefully
scary to think about (coll.) (coined c. 2013)

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