| | to rub / to grind / to polish / to sharpen / to wear down / to die out / to waste time / to pester / to insist | HSK 6 |
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| | to polish; to burnish; to shine | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to torment; to torture | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to suffer wear and tear; to deteriorate through use; to wear out | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to ponder / to mull over / to think through / Taiwan pr. [zhuo2 mo2] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | a torment / a trial / tribulation / a cross (to bear) / well-tried | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to break in / to wear in | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to dillydally / slow-going | |
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| | dawdling / to waste time | |
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| | grindstone / to grind / to turn round | |
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| | lit. with money, you can get a devil to turn a millstone (idiom) / fig. with money, you can get anything done; money talks | |
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| | milling / to grind / to polish by grinding / to abrade / whetstone / pestle | |
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| | to grind one's teeth (during sleep) / pointless arguing / (coll.) molar | |
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| | to carve and polish (jade) / to polish and refine a literary work | |
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| | mill | |
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| | wear and tear / wearing out by friction | |
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| | to sharpen on grindstone / to improve oneself by practice | |
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| | to wear out the skin of one's teeth (idiom); pointlessly blather / to talk incessant nonsense / blah blah | |
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| | to idle on the job | |
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| | Shuimogou district (Uighur: Shuymogu Rayoni) of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市｜乌鲁木齐市, Xinjiang | |
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| | indelible | |
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| | to obliterate / to erase | |
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| | frosted glass | |
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| | lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful | |
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| | whetstone (for honing knives) | |
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| | annoying / bothersome / to fret / to be peevish | |
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| | lower millstone / tray of a mill | |
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| | to coax and pester (idiom) / to wheedle / to cajole | |
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| | erosion / abrasion | |
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| | lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom) / fig. time invested in preparations is not lost / a beard well lathered is half shaved | |
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| | to grumble / to chatter away incessantly | |
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| | to mill / to grind / grinding stone | |
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| | lit. to sharpen one's spear only before going into battle (idiom) / fig. to make preparations only at the last moment | |
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| | terrazzo | |
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| | to hone (a knife) | |
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| | to rub lightly / to move slowly; to dawdle; to dillydally / to pester; to nag | |
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| | to polish | |
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| | grindstone | |
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| | grinding machine / grinder | |
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| | to feel embarrassed | |
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| | to torment / to torture | |
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| | lit. to sharpen one's sword (idiom) / fig. to prepare to attack; to be getting ready for battle | |
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| | rod mill | |
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| | Shuimogou district (Uighur: Shuymogu Rayoni) of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市｜乌鲁木齐市, Xinjiang | |
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| | lit. cutting and polishing (idiom) / fig. to learn by exchanging ideas or experiences | |
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| | ball mill | |
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| | to scrub with an abrasive / to sand / frosted (e.g. glass) | |
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| | to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task / to study diligently | |
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| | karma (loanword) | |
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| | (of a donkey etc) to turn a millstone / (fig.) to do laborious and monotonous work | |
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| | the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks (idiom) | |
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| | lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom) / fig. (of a boy and a girl) to play together often during childhood | |
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| | attrition rate | |
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| | to grind one's way through an ink stone / to persevere in a difficult task (idiom) / to study diligently (idiom) | |
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| | mill; grain mill; millstone | |
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| | to argue pointlessly / to talk incessant nonsense / to blather | |
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| | to polish and rub / (fig.) to torment; to torture / (fig.) to engage in discussion to hone an idea or skill | |
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| | rotary grindstone | |
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| | whetstone / millstone | |
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| | to pester / to bother sb incessantly / to delay / to prevaricate | |
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| | to torture / to torment | |
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| | to grumble / to chatter | |
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| | facial scrub | |
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| | abrasive disk / sanding disk | |
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| | miller | |
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| | a polished stone (neolithic) implement | |
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| | freshly ground | |
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| | sluggish / delaying | |
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| | If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle. / cf idiom 磨杵成針｜磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task / to study diligently | |
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| | abrasive (material) | |
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| | millstone grit | |
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| | torture and cruel treatment | |
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| | (proverb) a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study | |
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| | UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988) | |
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| | (proverb) A lazy person will find many excuses to delay working / lit. When a lazy donkey is turning a grindstone, it takes a lot of time off for peeing and pooing | |
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| | to wear down / to sap / to whittle away / to while away / to idle away | |
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| | to kill time | |
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| | abrasive / grinding material | |
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| | (dialect) to be very slow; to dawdle | |
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| | (dialect) to dawdle / to waste time / also written 墨跡｜墨迹 | |
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| | to feel unembarrassed; to be at ease / (dialect) to be convinced; to come round | |
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| | to sharpen / to grind (knife blades) | |
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| | abrasive material | |
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| | milling machine | |
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| | millstone grit / coarse sandstone | |
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| | sander; sanding machine | |
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| | incessant complaining | |
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| | to talk until one is blue in the face | |
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| | to wear out one's lips (idiom) / to talk until one is blue in the face / to repeat again and again | |
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| | to grind up | |
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| | to temper oneself / to steel oneself / self-discipline / endurance | |
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| | pumice stone | |
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| | friction blister | |
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| | whetstone (for honing knives) | |
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| | wear resistant | |
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