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| | deliberately; on purpose | HSK 2 |
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| | home / homeland / native place / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | reason / cause | HSK 6 |
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| | malfunction / breakdown / defect / shortcoming / fault / failure / impediment / error / bug (in software) | HSK 6 |
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| | happening / instance / reason / cause / intentional / former / old / friend / therefore / hence / (of people) to die, dead | HSK 7-9 |
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| | sophisticated / worldly-wise | HSK 7-9 |
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| | without cause or reason | HSK 7-9 |
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| | old teaching (e.g. religious instruction) | |
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| | a pile of old books | |
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| | Palace Museum, in the Forbidden City, Beijing / National Palace Museum, Taipei | |
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| | unworldly / unsophisticated | |
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| | former residence | |
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| | to dig into piles of outdated writings (idiom); to study old books and papers | |
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| | (idiom) back to where we were; absolutely no improvement; things haven't changed at all | |
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| | old practice | |
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| | to be one's old self (idiom) / to be unchanged / (derog.) to be stuck in one's ways | |
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| | ghost story | |
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| | an unforeseen event / accident / misfortune | |
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| | therefore / so / consequently | |
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| | a close friend over many years | |
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| | old site / site of sth (palace, ancient state etc) that no longer exists | |
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| | classical story or quote from the literature / the story behind sth | |
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| | mythical story; myth | |
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| | experienced in the ways of the world (idiom); worldly-wise / sophisticated | |
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| | (idiom) no cause or reason; completely uncalled for | |
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| | therefore | |
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| | folk story / folktale | |
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| | the late / deceased | |
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| | (idiom) to ask a question, already knowing the answer | |
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| | (idiom) for no reason whatever; inexplicably | |
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| | therefore | |
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| | In order to capture, one must let loose. / to loosen the reins only to grasp them better | |
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| | to find an excuse | |
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| | deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated | |
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| | familiarity at first sight | |
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| | fictional film / feature film | |
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| | (idiom) to have some sort of connection (personal or familial etc) | |
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| | somehow | |
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| | one's hometown | |
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| | meeting an old friend in a foreign place (idiom) | |
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| | to go through the motions | |
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| | to pretend / to feign | |
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| | old friends | |
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| | to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects) / to recall the past to understand the future | |
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| | old friend / the deceased | |
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| | lit. neither a relative nor a friend (idiom) / fig. unrelated to one another in any way | |
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| | home town; native place | |
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| | to die / to pass away | |
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| | the ways of the world | |
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| | as before / as usual / (to be) like old friends | |
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| | old classics / old customs / cause | |
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| | one's old self / one's original self / what one has always been | |
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| | native country; one's homeland | |
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| | Gucheng county in Hengshui 衡水, Hebei | |
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| | usual trick / old tactics | |
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| | old city | |
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| | what for? / what's the reason? | |
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| | worldly wisdom / the ways of the world / to know how to get on in the world | |
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| | rut (made by vehicles) / (fig.) conventional ways | |
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| | old friend / former acquaintance | |
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| | without relatives or friends | |
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| | old friends and relatives | |
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| | lit. to breathe out stale air and breathe in fresh (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子｜庄子); fig. to get rid of the old and bring in the new | |
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| | to die / death | |
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| | anecdote; tales (esp. about a historical figure) | |
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| | deliberate violation (idiom); intentional crime | |
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| | once familiar places / former haunts | |
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| | former acquaintance / old friend | |
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| | to die of an illness | |
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| | not to stick to the old conventions | |
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| | to be set in one's ways (idiom) | |
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| | to find a pretext for refusing | |
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| | old friend / deceased friend | |
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| | former home | |
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| | to repeat an old stratagem / up to one's old tricks | |
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| | old road / old way / old course (of a river) | |
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| | premeditated murder | |
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| | former capital / ancient capital | |
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| | to die / to pass away | |
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| | follow the same old path (idiom); stuck in a rut / always the same routine | |
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| | to have no basis in fact (idiom) | |
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| | descended from an old family | |
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| | to discard the old and introduce the new (idiom); to innovate | |
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| | do not neglect old friends | |
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| | for some reason | |
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| | stuck in the old ways (idiom); refusing to acknowledge new ideas / stagnating and conservative | |
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| | ... hence the name (used at the end of a sentence) | |
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| | accident | |
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| | to return home with honor | |
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| | technical breakdown / malfunction | |
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| | storyline; plotline | |
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| | that's why it is called... | |
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| | Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang 張戎｜张戎 and Jon Halliday | |
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| | historical or literary anecdote that gives rise to a saying | |
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| | The Canterbury Tales, collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer 喬叟｜乔叟 | |
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| | historical ruins | |
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