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next in sequence / second / the second (day, time etc) / secondary / vice- / sub- / infra- / inferior quality / substandard / order / sequence / hypo- (chemistry) / classifier for enumerated events: time
HSK 1
next time
HSK 1
last time
HSK 1
next / secondly
HSK 3
many times / repeatedly
HSK 4
layer / level / gradation / arrangement of ideas / (a person's) standing
HSK 5
once more; once again
HSK 5
first / first time / for the first time
HSK 6
in order / in succession
HSK 6
this time
HSK 6
grade / class / quality / level
HSK 7-9
person-times / visits / classifier for number of people participating
HSK 7-9
for the first time / first (meeting, attempt etc)
HSK 7-9
repeatedly / time and again
HSK 7-9
over and over again (idiom)
HSK 7-9
Yuci district of Jinzhong city 晉中市|晋中市, Shanxi
Anci district of Langfang city 廊坊市, Hebei
the second time / second / number two
the number of showings of a movie, play etc / screening; performance
seating arrangement / position in a seating arrangement
each (item in sequence) / successive
edition (of a book etc) / edition number
grade / class number (in school) / flight or run number / flight or run (seen as an item) / shift (work period)
every time
train or coach service ("service" as in "they run 12 services per day between the two cities")
incoherent speech / to talk without rhyme or reason (idiom)
to settle for second best / the next best thing
in turn / by turns / lap / turn / round / classifier for laps, turns, rounds
repeatedly (idiom)
to arrange things in sequence / sequence in which things are arranged
position in a ranking of names / place / rank
many times / on more than one occasion
in the proper order / the following
one watch (i.e. two-hour period during night)
(literary) hurried / rash
sequence; order / (literary) to arrange (books) in serial order
sortie / flight
air or sea voyage (seen as an individual, countable item) / flight / voyage / CL: 個|个
gradually / one after another / little by little
number of print run
in order / in proper sequence
once; on one occasion
gradually / one by one
this; the present (meeting etc) / this time; this once
several times
third / three times / (math.) degree three, cubic (equation)
higher degree (e.g. equation in math.)
instance of administering a dose of vaccine / number of vaccinations
(formal) this time
second (i.e. number two) / second time / twice / (math.) quadratic (of degree two)
fourth / four times / quartic
first / first time / once / (math.) linear (of degree one)
once a week
(Internet slang) panties (loanword)
again
yet again / once again / once more
deep level / deep-seated / in-depth
repeatedly / over and over again
next
the important and the less important / primary and secondary
place (in numbered sequence) / degree on employment scale
number of days of sth taking place (e.g. days of heavy pollution) / days / occasions
to get one's hair layered
in sequence / in the proper order / one by one / in turn
once / once upon a time
echelon; tier; batch (in a sequence) / in succession; tier by tier; in batches (according to a set order)
defective; inferior in quality
Boaz (name)
the first time / first / number one
to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the incidental and neglect the main point) / lacking a sense of perspective / to put the cart before the horse
frequency
homogeneous (math.)


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