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clear; obvious; unequivocal / sensible; reasonable / to understand; to realize
HSK 1
in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white
HSK 7-9
honest / forthcoming / to confess
HSK 7-9
dialogue (in a movie or a play)
HSK 7-9
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white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera
HSK 1
prologue of play / opening remarks / preamble (of speeches, articles etc)
HSK 7-9
(of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light / (old) wine cup / (coll.) whiting (used in whitewash) / (coll.) (neologism c. 2020) healthcare worker in a full-body protective suit (from the white robot Baymax in Disney's "Big Hero 6", called "大白" in Chinese)
to explain oneself / to express / to reveal one's thoughts or feelings / declaration / confession
HSK 7-9
Elizabeth (person name)
impoverished / backward both economically and culturally
spoken lines in opera
black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
HSK 7-9
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
ash-colored
to speak frankly / frank; open; blunt
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground)
not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not to distinguish between right and wrong
collagen
Elizabeth / also written 伊麗莎白|伊丽莎白
Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet
Elizabeth (name) / also written 伊麗莎白|伊丽莎白
white of the eye
grizzled (hair)
to turn pale / to lose color / to go white
milky white / cream color
perfectly clean / blameless / unimpeachable (idiom)
lipoprotein
spotlessly white / pure white
to announce publicly / to explain oneself / to reveal one's feelings / to confess / to declare one's love
to whiten (the skin or teeth)
for no reason / gratuitously
Taibai County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡, Shaanxi / Venus
pure / innocent
myocilin / muscle fibrin
to inform / to notify
deathly pale
HSK 7-9
the whole truth is revealed (idiom); everything becomes clear
fifty (years of age)
globulin
myosin (biochemistry)
stage monologue / soliloquy
casein (milk protein)
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
albumin
(idiom) obscure; dubious; shady
keratin (protein forming nails and feathers etc)
alpha globulin / alpha fetoprotein (AFP)
tubulin
pale / wan
blank space
HSK 7-9
to be suffused with white; faded; bleached / to blanch
fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky)
to bleach / to whiten
to figure out how to do something
reverse type (white on black) / reversed-out (graphics) / highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)
aside (theater) / voice-over / background narration
egg white / protein / albumen
to make sth clean and white / (fig.) to whitewash / to launder money
ciliary dynein protein
fibrous protein
silver white
(of sb's face) turning alternately green and white
correction fluid (loanword from "Liquid Paper") (Tw)
bulk baijiu (i.e. clear Chinese liquor) (abbr. for 散裝白酒|散装白酒)
indigo white
to rebuke; to reprimand
glycoprotein
(dialect) cabbage
hemoglobin
to confuse black and white / to say that black is white / fig. not to distinguish right from wrong
Macbeth (name) / Macbeth, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
to explain oneself
(slang) novice; greenhorn / (old) (slang) fool; idiot / abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸, pretty boy
to leave a message / to leave some empty space in a work of art / to leave idle moments (in one's life, a theater play etc)
to answer
confession / to make clear one's position or intentions / to brag
narrator / spoken parts in an opera
Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March
Manchurian wild rice , aka water bamboo, or its edible stem, which resembles a bamboo shoot
open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything / ingenuous / openhearted / unselfish / magnanimous / broad-minded
deathly white
creamy white; ivory color
to propose / to suggest / to state a view
simple / easy to understand
first soliloquy (introducing opera character)
to offer an explanation / to plead innocence / to try to defend oneself
form of rhymed baihua 白話|白话 in Beijing opera
snow white
the rights and wrongs of a matter (idiom)
Song Bai (936-1012), Northern Song literary man
Yu Tianbai (1937-), novelist
pure white / spotlessly white
Ka'aba, sacred building in Mecca
to strip bark
opaque white
frosty
microalbumin

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