| | of; ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的 "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 "new one") / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs | HSK 1 |
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| | else / other | HSK 1 |
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| | really; truly; indeed / real; true; genuine / (math.) proper | HSK 1 |
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| | (there are) some (who are...) / some (exist) | HSK 1 |
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| | if (coming after a conditional clause) | HSK 2 |
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| | purpose; aim; goal; target; objective / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | have plenty of / there's no lack of | HSK 3 |
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| | seems as if / rather like / Taiwan pr. [si4 de5] | HSK 4 |
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| | really / indeed | HSK 4 |
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| | destination (location) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | nothing to pick on; really good / nothing to discuss; settled matter; no problem | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to have a target in mind when shooting one's arrows (idiom) / fig. to have a clear objective | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to tell the truth / honestly / in fact | HSK 7-9 |
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| | generally speaking / to sum up / in summary / in short | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Really! (interj. of annoyance or frustration) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士) | |
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| | really and truly | |
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| | (bound form) bull's-eye; target | |
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| | Baltic Sea | |
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| | to hit the target / (fig.) to hit the nail on the head | |
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| | and so on; and so forth; and what not | |
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| | target / aim / objective / what one hopes to gain | |
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| | Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia | |
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| | Goddam! / goddamn / wretched | |
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| | (coll.) to take a taxi / to go by taxi | |
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| | (taboo curse) damn it! / fucking | |
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| | taxi (loanword) | |
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| | (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family / (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) | |
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| | really / after all / details / particulars | |
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| | Baltimore (place name, surname etc) | |
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| | yes, that's right / variant of 似的 | |
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| | female taxi driver | |
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| | trivial (matters) / triviality / nonsense / rubbish | |
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| | homing / target-seeking (military) | |
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| | Midea (brand) | |
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| | (like) a cat on a hot tin roof / anxious / agitated | |
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| | the Last Supper (in the Christian Passion story) | |
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| | lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people | |
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| | to move a stone and stub one's toe / to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom) | |
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| | to play dirty / crafty; scheming | |
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| | (idiom) no secret can be kept forever | |
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| | white lie | |
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| | son of a bitch | |
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| | dacron (loanword) | |
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| | odd-jobs worker | |
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| | Lake Titicaca | |
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| | lit. as if flying / very fast | |
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| | creeped out; unnerved; uneasy | |
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| | (idiom) to hit the mark with a comment; to say sth spot on | |
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| | all one's strength | |
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| | (coll.) food | |
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| | bull's-eye / target / objective | |
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| | every family has its problems (idiom) | |
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| | Montevideo, capital of Uruguay | |
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| | there's no place like home (idiom) | |
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| | to shoot without aim (idiom); fig. to speak without thinking / firing blindly / to shoot in the air / a shot in the dark | |
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| | ultimatum (loanword) | |
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| | all good things must come to an end (idiom) | |
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| | Cardiff | |
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| | Tripoli, capital of Libya / Tripoli, city in north Lebanon | |
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| | to hit the target / (fig.) to hit the nail on the head | |
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| | (coll.) not at all (humble expression denying compliment) / don't mention it | |
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| | drat / frick / (euphemistic variant of 媽的|妈的) | |
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| | Descendants of the Dragon (i.e. Han Chinese) | |
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| | Trieste, port city in Italy | |
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| | woman | |
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| | ginger gets spicier as it gets older (idiom) / the older, the wiser | |
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| | (old) wife | |
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| | darkness comes before dawn / things can only get better (idiom) | |
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| | sometimes / at times | |
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| | (neologism c. 2009) don't worry, it's all taken care of | |
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| | (polite response) you're welcome; just doing my duty; no problem | |
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| | lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come. / You can't make progress by clinging to old notions. | |
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| | lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom) / fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen | |
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| | Game of Thrones (TV series) | |
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| | the Emperor's new clothes (i.e. naked) | |
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| | damn it! / blast it! | |
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| | Minecraft (video game) | |
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| | Mosaic Law | |
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| | lit. you hit the high road, I'll cross the log bridge (idiom) / fig. you go your way, I'll go mine / you do it your way, I'll do it mine | |
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| | beast (derog.) | |
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| | Actual practice is the sole criterion for judging truth (item from Deng Xiaoping theory, from 1978) | |
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| | Scandinavia | |
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| | Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang 張戎|张戎 and Jon Halliday | |
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| | not to be trifled with / to be reckoned with | |
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| | What brings you here? (idiom) | |
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| | to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom) / hoisted by one's own petard | |
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| | Baltic | |
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| | lit. the yamen is strong as iron, the officials flow like water (idiom) / fig. government officials come and go | |
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| | fullness for the bold, famine for the timid (idiom) | |
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| | lit. it's the soft persimmons that people choose to squeeze (idiom) / fig. it's the weak (i.e. 軟柿子|软柿子) who get picked on / bullies pick soft targets | |
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| | male taxi driver / cabbie (slang) | |
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| | Netherlands Antilles | |
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