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HSK
neutral (gear)
automatic transmission / auto gear shift
(in a manual car) gear (i.e. reverse, neutral, 1st, 2nd etc) / (automatic car) transmission mode (P, R, N, D etc) / (electric fan, cooker etc) setting; mode
to obstruct
to be in the way; to block the path
low gear / bottom gear
to resist / to hold back / to stop / to ward off / to withstand
HSK 7-9
gear (of car etc)
to change gear
shield / (fig.) excuse
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
manual gear change / shift stick
neutral gear
to shelter / to shelter from
pick and roll (basketball) / screen and roll
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挡* | 挡* | *挡
to resist / to obstruct / to hinder / to keep off / to block (a blow) / to get in the way of / cover / gear (e.g. in a car's transmission)
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挡* | 挡* | *挡
to arrange / to put in order
windshield / wind screen
windshield
(slang) to ask for money / to lend money
(slang) to ask for money / to lend money
to decline to receive a visitor / to turn sb away
backboard
forward gear
bookend
(of a car) to slip out of gear / to pop out of gear
to stop / to resist / to obstruct
HSK 7-9
to put into gear / to engage the gear / gear change
to parry / to fend off / to block (a blow)
(car, bicycle etc) fender; mudguard; (UK) wing
(slang) to ask for money / to lend money
to protect from the rain
doorstop
to coast along in neutral gear (in a car) / (coll.) to go commando
gear shift
park (gear) / program mode (on a digital camera)
gear lever
to resist / to obstruct / to bear responsibility for
reverse gear
automatic gear change
first gear
(literary) to put in order; to arrange / cuisine
top gear; high gear
lit. windbreak / fig. protector
variant of 搭檔|搭档


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