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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
(idiom) (of a building etc) to rise out of the ground
to promote to a higher job / to select for promotion
HSK 7-9
(dialect) very cold / chilled
Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David (according to the Hebrew Bible)
to set out (of troops) / departure / start date (of military expedition)
toilet plunger
lit. unwilling to spare a single hair (idiom) / fig. extremely stingy
HSK 7-9
fortitude
height above sea level / elevation
HSK 7-9
firm and indomitable (idiom); tenacious and unyielding
to select the best
HSK 6
lit. to grab feathers from a flying goose / fig. to seize any opportunity / pragmatic
to excel the common (idiom); surpassing / preeminent / outstanding
to break into a run
to raise (one's voice) / to overrate / to build up / to stand out / outstanding
tall and straight
(lit. and fig.) to uproot
to pluck / to pull off / to pull out / to unplug
select the best people for promotion
top-notch (colloquial) / to push oneself to the front
hot swapping
tug-of-war / to take part in a tug-of-war
to weigh anchor
(TCM) to cup; to give a cupping treatment / short detachable stove chimney used to help draw fire
to pull out / to remove
elevation (above sea level)
lit. to intervene when one sees an injustice (idiom) / fig. to rush to the rescue / to play the white knight
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
to extract a tooth
to free oneself / to extricate oneself from a difficult situation
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
topping (mining)
outstanding / to fast-track / to elevate / to free oneself from
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
tall and straight
cupping glass / fire cupping (acupressure technique of Chinese medicine, with fired vacuum cup applied to the skin) / ventouse (vacuum method used in obstetrics)
elongation stage / jointing stage (agriculture)
draw out pus by applying a plaster to the affected area
to pull out hair / to pluck / epilation
claw hammer
to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)
to pick out / to select and recruit / to pluck / to pull
to rise steeply from level ground
Hannibal (name) / Hannibal Barca (247-183 BC), Carthaginian general
lit. choose a general from among the dwarfs / fig. choose the best person available (out of a mediocre bunch)
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 practice cupping (technique used in TCM)
lit. with swords drawn and bows bent (idiom); fig. a state of mutual hostility / at daggers drawn
(Tw) (slang) daddy (pun on 爸爸)
to strike camp
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
to distinguish oneself; to be of outstanding talent
Abbasid Empire (750-1258), successor of the Umayyad caliphate
fire cupping (acupressure technique of Chinese medicine, with fired vacuum cup applied to the skin) / ventouse (vacuum method used in obstetrics)
outstanding / exceptionally good
jointing (agriculture)
wire drawing / candied floss (cooking) / spun sugar or toffee (coating)
to select
to pull up by the roots / to uproot
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
elephant trunk clam / geoduck (Panopea abrupta), large clam with a long proboscis (native to the west coast of North America)
discharge
to pull up seedlings (for transplanting)
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.
shoehorn
erhua variant of 拔尖
outstandingly talented
lit. to choose a general among the dwarves (idiom) / fig. to pick the best out of a bad group
handsome (of people) / graceful (of calligraphy)
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)
shoehorn
erhua variant of 拔火罐


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