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to pull up / to pull out / to draw out by suction / to select / to pick / to stand out (above level) / to surpass / to seize
HSK 5
to select the best
HSK 6
height above sea level / elevation
HSK 7-9
to promote to a higher job / to select for promotion
HSK 7-9
lit. unwilling to spare a single hair (idiom) / fig. extremely stingy
HSK 7-9
tall and straight
to pick out / to select and recruit / to pluck / to pull
lit. to intervene when one sees an injustice (idiom) / fig. to rush to the rescue / to play the white knight
Abbasid Empire (750-1258), successor of the Umayyad caliphate
plunger for unblocking toilet
to distinguish oneself; to be of outstanding talent
cupping glass / fire cupping (acupressure technique of Chinese medicine, with fired vacuum cup applied to the skin) / ventouse (vacuum method used in obstetrics)
to pluck / to pull off / to pull out / to unplug
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends.
wire drawing / candied floss (cooking) / spun sugar or toffee (coating)
to weigh anchor
to free oneself / to extricate oneself from a difficult situation
tug-of-war / to take part in a tug-of-war
to set out (of troops) / departure / start date (of military expedition)
firm and indomitable (idiom); tenacious and unyielding
lit. to grab feathers from a flying goose / fig. to seize any opportunity / pragmatic
jointing (agriculture)
to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)
to strike camp
erhua variant of 拔尖
fortitude
to excel the common (idiom); surpassing / preeminent / outstanding
(TCM) to cup; to give a cupping treatment / short detachable stove chimney used to help draw fire
tall and straight
to select
hot swapping
to raise (one's voice) / to overrate / to build up / to stand out / outstanding
to break into a run
lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom) / fig. to die / to bite the dust / to be over and done with
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends.
to practice cupping (technique used in TCM)
outstanding / exceptionally good
to rise steeply from level ground
top-notch (colloquial) / to push oneself to the front
outstandingly talented
handsome (of people) / graceful (of calligraphy)
shoehorn
topping (mining)
outstanding / to fast-track / to elevate / to free oneself from
to pull out hair / to pluck / epilation
to extract a tooth
claw hammer
to pull up by the roots / to uproot
erhua variant of 拔火罐
Amédée Courbet (1826-1885), a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War
discharge
daddy
to pull up seedlings (for transplanting)
select the best people for promotion
shoehorn
Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David (according to the Hebrew Bible)
elephant trunk clam / geoduck (Panopea abrupta), large clam with a long proboscis (native to the west coast of North America)
lit. someone else stole the donkey; you only pulled up the stake it was tethered to (idiom) / fig. you're the least culpable, but you're the one who gets the blame
lit. with swords drawn and bows bent (idiom); fig. a state of mutual hostility / at daggers drawn
branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people, founders of Wei 北魏 of the Northern Dynasties (386-534) / also written 拓跋
lit. when you pull a radish out of the ground, some dirt comes up with it (idiom) / fig. to uncover, during the investigation of a crime, evidence of other crimes / to cause further problems while working on a problem
(lit. and fig.) to uproot
lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom) / fig. A is far richer (or more powerful) than B / (used in a pattern such as A拔根汗毛比B的腰粗)
draw out pus by applying a plaster to the affected area
elevation (above sea level)
(dialect) very cold / chilled
elongation stage / jointing stage (agriculture)
fire cupping (acupressure technique of Chinese medicine, with fired vacuum cup applied to the skin) / ventouse (vacuum method used in obstetrics)
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow / fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends.
to pull out / to remove
Hannibal (name) / Hannibal Barca (247-183 BC), Carthaginian general
lit. to choose a general among the dwarves (idiom) / fig. to pick the best out of a bad group
lit. choose a general from among the dwarfs / fig. choose the best person available (out of a mediocre bunch)


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