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| | line of sight | HSK 6 |
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| | itinerary / route / political line (e.g. right revisionist road) / CL: 條|条 | |
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| | wired / cable (television) | |
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| | thread / string / wire / line / CL: 條|条, 股, 根 / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city) | |
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| | straight line / sharply (rise or fall) | |
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| | online | |
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| | candlestick (in a candlestick chart) | |
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| | wireless | |
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| | the whole front (in a war) / the whole length (of a road or railway line) | |
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| | bottom line; the limit of what one is prepared to accept / (sports) baseline / (sewing) under thread / spy; informer; plant | |
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| | ultraviolet ray | |
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| | red line | |
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| | along the line (e.g. railway) / the region near the line | |
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| | to go online / to put sth online | |
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| | hotline (communications link) | |
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| | short term | |
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| | oblique line / slash (symbol) | |
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| | main line (of communication) / main thread (of a plotline or concept) / central theme | |
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| | assembly line / production line | |
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| | pipeline / general term for pipes, cables etc | |
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| | front line / forefront | |
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| | wiring / to connect a wire | |
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| | front line | |
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| | offline (computing) | |
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| | electrical lead / connecting line / (Tw) to connect (to a network, device etc) / to go online / connection / (congressional) caucus | |
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| | battle line / battlefront / front | |
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| | to go offline / (of a product) to roll off the assembly line / downline (person below oneself in a pyramid scheme) | |
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| | main line / trunk line | |
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| | air or shipping route | |
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| | to pull strings / to manipulate (a puppet) / to control from behind the scene / to mediate | |
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| | extension cord / extended line / powerstrip | |
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| | cotton thread / yarn cotton | |
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| | computer bus | |
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| | dividing line | |
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| | infrared ray | |
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| | the starting line (of a race) / scratch line (in a relay race) | |
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| | FireWire (IEEE 1394 data-transfer interface) | |
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| | firing line (battle) / live electrical wire | |
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| | skyline / horizon | |
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| | silk thread (for sewing); silk yarn (for weaving) | |
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| | police cordon / alert level | |
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| | high tension power line | |
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| | to delineate / to draw a line / to underline | |
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| | lit. to thread a needle (idiom); fig. to act as a go-between | |
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| | (math.) perpendicular line / vertical line | |
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| | wiring | |
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| | inked line / carpenter's straight line marker (an inked cord stretched tight then lowered onto timber) | |
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| | streamline (physics) | |
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| | fuse (for an explosive device) / electrical lead / intermediary / catalyst / (dialect) sewing needle | |
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| | special-purpose phone line or communications link / hotline / special rail line (e.g. between airport and city) / CL: 條|条 | |
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| | ray | |
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| | a front (militant group) / line of battle / alignment (towards a political party etc) | |
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| | to hang up the phone | |
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| | (sports) to go out of bounds / to go over the line / to qualify for the next round of competition / (Tw) (fig.) to make the grade / to achieve success | |
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| | half-way line / median line | |
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| | central axis (line) | |
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| | arc | |
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| | parabola | |
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| | rice-flour noodles | |
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| | to remove stitches (from a wound) | |
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| | cycloid | |
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| | (of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break / (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued / (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected / cut off | |
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| | railway line | |
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| | wool / woolen thread | |
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| | twisted pair (cabling) | |
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| | needle and thread / needlework | |
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| | minimum passing score for admission | |
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| | broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments) / polygonal line / dog leg | |
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| | white line (road markings) | |
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| | cosmic ray | |
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| | yarn | |
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| | horizontal line / (math.) horizontal axis | |
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| | curve / curved line / indirect / in a roundabout way | |
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| | pressure crease / fig. to toil for sb else's benefit / line ball (i.e. on the line) | |
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| | antenna / mast / connection with high-ranking officials | |
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| | light ray / CL: 條|条, 道 / light / illumination / lighting (for a photograph) | |
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| | spiral | |
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| | gamma rays | |
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| | snow line | |
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| | lifeline | |
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| | blockade line; cordon / CL: 道 | |
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| | front line / military front / workface / cutting edge | |
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| | baseline (surveying, budgeting, typography etc) / (math.) base (of a triangle) | |
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| | defensive line or perimeter / CL: 道 | |
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| | (angling) to play a fish / (kite-flying) to let the string out / (dating) to play the field | |
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| | branch line / side road / spur / fig. secondary plot (in a story) | |
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| | meridian | |
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| | generating line / generatrix (in geometry) / bus (in electronics) / bus bar | |
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| | dotted line / dashed line / (math.) imaginary line | |
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| | one-way road | |
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| | knitting wool / wool yarn | |
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| | solid line / continuous line | |
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| | limits / bounds / dividing line | |
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| | united front | |
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| | woof / line of latitude / parallel | |
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| | deadline (loanword) | |
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| | marking line (painted on a road to guide motorists) / reticle / graticule | |
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| | (geometry) a diagonal | |
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