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to sway / to swing / to move back and forth / to oscillate
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *摆* | 摆* | *摆
to arrange / to exhibit / to move to and fro / a pendulum
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *摆* | 摆* | *摆
hem (at the bottom of a garment)
HSK 4
to break away from / to cast off (old ideas etc) / to get rid of / to break away (from) / to break out (of) / to free oneself from / to extricate oneself
HSK 4
to strut / swaggering
swing state (US politics)
(idiom) to sway from side to side; unsteady / (idiom) indecisive; hesitant
to arrange / to order about / to manipulate
(of a pendulum) to stop swinging / (of work, production, activities etc) to come to a halt / to be suspended / to be canceled / shutdown / (sports) lockout
ornament / decorative item / (fig.) sth that is merely for show
HSK 7-9
to run a street stall
to sway / to wobble / to waver
HSK 7-9
swaggering / staggering / waddling
to show clearly
to arrange food on a plate / to plate up / food presentation / (watchmaking) balance wheel
to be fair / to be impartial / to settle (a matter etc)
HSK 7-9
to mess sth up / to screw up
hawking / street vending
to set up a vendor's stall in the street
to set up; to arrange; to lay out
HSK 7-9
to twist and sway (one's body)
to play tricks on / to make a fool of
pendulum
to set out / to display / to furnish (a room or house)
to set up a stall / (fig.) to maintain a large staff and organization
hem of a skirt / shirt tail
to swing / to sway
to take a staged photograph
to nod one's head and wag one's tail (idiom) / to be well pleased with oneself / to have a lighthearted air
to put on airs / to be ostentatious
to spread over an area
to swing / to sway
to parade one's wealth / to be ostentatious and extravagant
(dialect) last time
shuttle bus / feeder bus
swing (dance)
present the facts and reason things out
cycloid
hem (of a skirt)
to move back and forth / to fiddle with
swing (genre of jazz music)
to pose (for a picture)
to keep up appearances / to put up a front
decorative items / ornaments
lit. to arrange a shelf of flowers / superficial display (idiom)
pendulum clock
knickknack / ornament / decorative item
evident / clear / undoubted
malaria
(coll.) to show off
to wave one's hand / to gesture with one's hand (beckoning, waving good-bye etc) / to swing one's arms
to do sth for show / to keep up appearances
ferry
(dialect) to chat; to gossip; to spin a yarn
yawing (of a boat)
(neologism c. 2014) (slang) to stop striving (esp. when one knows one cannot succeed); to let it all go to hell; (sports) to tank
to display (goods) / to dispose of
to put on airs / to assume great airs
indecisive / wavering
to assume / to adopt (a look, pose, manner etc) / to bring out for display
simple pendulum (physics)
Foucault's pendulum
double pendulum (math.)
balance (of a watch or clock) / balance wheel
erhua variant of 擺譜|摆谱
variant of 裙襬|裙摆


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