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muscle / tendon / veins visible under the skin / sth resembling tendons or veins (e.g. fiber in a vegetable)
HSK 7-9
brains / mind / head / way of thinking
HSK 7-9
to be a real headache / to find sth a real headache / to beat one's brains
HSK 7-9
(anatomy) fascia
low-gluten flour / cake flour / pastry flour / soft flour
steel reinforcing bar
reinforced concrete
rubber band
muscles and bones / physique / strength / courage
cramp / charley horse / to pull a tendon
to suffer serious injury (idiom)
body weary, strength exhausted (idiom); extremely tired / spent
reinforced concrete
to use one's brains / to think
all-purpose flour / flour for making dumplings and noodles
veins
to tumble / to turn a somersault
to play rubber band jump rope
Sun Wukong's magical cloud
veins / blue veins
muscle cramp
stubborn / inflexible / one-track minded
gluten
rubber band
tendons and muscles
lit. muscles and joints / by ext. the relations between parts in a speech, composition etc
(coll.) rubber band
rebar (construction)
flexor tendon (coll.) / tesuji (a skillful move in the game of Go) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 手筋 "tesuji")
plantar fasciitis (medicine)
(coll.) dim-witted / foolish / absent-minded
wire grass (Eleusine indica)
stretching (exercise)
tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)
to suffer serious injury (idiom)
penis (Chinese medicine)
backward somersault
to tumble / to fall head over heels / (fig.) to take a tumble
cartwheel
to turn cartwheels
wheat starch
tumble / somersault
red and tense with anger (idiom)
red and tense with anger (idiom)
idiot / porridge head
bread flour / hard flour


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