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to praise / to commend
HSK 4
to show off one's military strength (idiom); to strut around / to bluff / to bluster
to praise / to extol / to publicize / to advocate
to spread (by word of mouth)
to enhance / to promote / to enrich
HSK 7-9
Yangzhou fried rice, featuring scrambled egg, diced vegetables and multiple proteins – typically shrimp and barbecued pork
to set sail on a voyage to a distant place / (fig.) to undertake a great mission
to raise one's head / to perk up
to publicize; to advertise; to spread far and wide
HSK 7-9
(of prices etc) to rise
Jiangsu cuisine
to praise / to approve of / to show approval
HSK 7-9
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom) / fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
a show of strength
elated / high-spirited / uplifting (music)
quietly / without ostentation
to become known far and wide (idiom) / famous
to foster strengths and avoid weaknesses (idiom) / to play to one's strengths
HSK 7-9
to uphold virtue and condemn evil (idiom)
lit. drain away filth and bring in fresh water (idiom); fig. dispel evil and usher in good / eliminate vice and exalt virtue
high-spirited and smug
lit. to ride a crane to Yangzhou / to become a Daoist immortal / to die
(idiom) nothing special to look at / unprepossessing
bubbling and gurgling / hubbubing / abuzz
HSK 7-9
Mikoyan (name) / Anastas Ivanonovich Mikoyan (1895-1978), Soviet politician, politburo member in the 1950s and 1960s / Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905-1970), brother of the politician and one designer of MiG military aircraft
historical name for Yangzhou 揚州|扬州
high and mighty (idiom); arrogant
to develop and promote / to carry forward / to bring to great height of development
HSK 7-9
high and mighty (idiom); arrogant
to praise / to compliment
to praise / to commend / to hallow
upward trend; tendency to increase
trochaic
to develop / to make full use of
HSK 7-9
to swagger off / to walk off (or drive off etc) without a second thought for those left behind
to wave / to flutter / to fly
Celeron (an Intel chip)
melodious; mellifluous
to become famous / to become notorious
speaker
with swagger / ostentatiously / to make the best use of one's strengths
to be full of vigor (idiom)
to winnow
Xiao Yang (1938-), president of the PRC Supreme Court 1998-2008
(loanword) Yankee (esp. the New York Yankees baseball team)
(idiom) (of leaves etc) fluttering about
stinking reputation / notorious far and wide
having high fighting spirit
Yangzhou, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省
to put about (a story, plan, threat etc) / to let it be known (esp. of threat or malicious story) / to threaten
in high spirits (idiom); glowing with health and vigor
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abbr. for Yangzhou 揚州|扬州 in Jiangsu / surname Yang
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to raise / to hoist / the action of tossing or winnowing / scattering (in the wind) / to flutter / to propagate
HSK 7-9
to set sail
held high / elevated / uplift / soaring
lit. to take different roads and urge the horses on (idiom) / fig. to part ways
Changjiang 長江|长江 or Yangtze River / old name for Changjiang, especially lower reaches around Yangzhou 揚州|扬州
lit. drain away filth and bring in fresh water (idiom); fig. dispel evil and usher in good / eliminate vice and exalt virtue
modulation (rising and falling pitch) / intonation / a cadence / to rise and fall (of a body floating in water)
a capstan
Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
Japanese-style fried food, usually chicken (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 唐揚げ "karaage")
to expound / to propagate
to winnow
to rise / to fly upward
Yangzhong, a county-level city in Zhenjiang City 鎮江市|镇江市, Jiangsu
a whirlwind
lit. to ride a crane to Yangzhou (idiom); to get an official position
to flag down (a cab) on the street / to hail (a taxicab)
to praise
yangqin / dulcimer (hammered string musical instrument)
known throughout the country (idiom); world-famous
Yang Xiong (53 BC-18 AD), scholar, poet and lexicographer, author of the first Chinese dialect dictionary 方言
(idiom) to highlight sb's good points but omit to mention their faults
Jelena Jankovic (1985-), Serbian tennis player
Svalbard and Jan Mayen
to eulogize / to praise
lit. to raise a banner to summon the soul of a dying person (idiom) / fig. to try to revive what is obsolete or dead
to whip on / to raise a whip / by ext. to swagger
Zhang Yang (1967-), PRC film director and screenwriter
to display ostentatiously / to bring out into the open / to make public / to spread around / flamboyant / brash
HSK 7-9
to raise eyebrows
bossy and domineering / throwing one's weight about
iambic
variant of 得意洋洋
HSK 7-9
Jankovic / Yankovic / Yankovich / Jelena Jankovic (1985-), Serbian tennis player
cadence / modulation
(fame) spreads far and wide
variant of 弘揚|弘扬


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