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leak / hole / gap / loophole
HSK 5
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to leak / to divulge / to leave out by mistake / waterclock or hourglass (old)
HSK 5
(of a liquid or gas) to leak / to divulge; to leak (information)
HSK 7-9
to overlook / to miss / to omit
(of pipes, ceilings, roofs etc) to leak water; to have a water leak
error and negligence
seepage / leakage
to repair a leaky roof / (dialect) to find fault; to nitpick / (slang) to score a bargain (esp. when the seller is unaware of the item's true value) / (slang) to take advantage of an unexpected opportunity
to leak air or gas
lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law
to miss / to leave out / to omit / to be omitted / to be missing / to slip through / to leak out / to seep away
to overlook / omissions / deficiencies
large though its mesh may be, no criminal can slip through the wide net of justice
careless mistake / slip-up
to divulge / to leak / to reveal
to blurt out / to let slip
to leak electricity / (fig.) (coll.) to unintentionally arouse romantic interest (by being solicitous etc) / cf. 放電|放电
tax evasion
to divulge secrets
lit. a fish that escaped the net (idiom) / fig. sb or sth that slips through the net
to mention some but omit many others (idiom) / to leave out much more than one includes
hourglass / sand filter
omission / to leave out / missing
to check for leaks
to slip up; to overlook by negligence / careless omission; oversight
water clock / clepsydra
lit. not one drop of water can leak out / watertight / rigorous (argument)
perforated spoon / strainer spoon / skimmer
to take a wrong turn / to go wrong
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
past one's prime / in one's declining years
(of an argument, theory etc) full of flaws (idiom)
to evade (taxes)
loose, but allows no escape (idiom, from Laozi 老子); the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape
uterine bleeding
not one drop of water leaks (idiom); fig. thoughtful and completely rigorous / watertight
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
a leak (e.g. of chemicals)
to make an indiscreet remark
drain / underground drainpipe / floor gutter / 25th of 2nd lunar month
oil spill; oil leak / (fig.) boo! (opposite of 加油)
water clock; clepsydra / to drip
funnel
cloze (loanword) (Tw)
funnel cloud
without missing a word
to lose sth due to leakage / to let sth slip through / a slip-up / an oversight
to evade (paying tax) / (tax) evasion
lit. mysteries of heaven must not be revealed (idiom); must not be revealed / I am not at liberty to inform you.
water clock used to mark night watches
leak
to divulge the will of heaven (idiom); to leak a secret / to let the cat out of the bag
hourglass / water clock / clepsydra
water-driven armillary sphere (Zhang Heng's famous astronomical apparatus)
to divulge the will of heaven (idiom); to leak a secret / to let the cat out of the bag
lit. to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom) / fig. to disregard long-term consequences for short-term benefits; shortsighted
colander / strainer / sieve / leaky pot
It's too late to plug the leak once ship is in the middle of the river. (idiom)
to leak (information, secrets etc) / to smuggle and evade tax / to suffer shrinkage (partial loss of goods due to theft etc)
tinker / artisan who fixes leaky pots
gargoyle (architecture)
zero-day vulnerability (computing)


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