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edge; fringe; verge; brink; periphery / marginal; borderline
HSK 6
phylogenetic relationship
electrical insulation / heat insulation
blood relationship; genetic relationship; consanguinity
reason / cause
HSK 6
fate or chance that brings people together / predestined affinity or relationship / (Budd.) destiny
HSK 7-9
bloodline
HSK 7-9
to have no contact with / to be cut off from / (electricity) to insulate
HSK 7-9
chance / opportunity / predestined relationship / (Buddhist) principal and secondary causes / chain of cause and effect
to have no opportunity / no way (of doing sth) / no chance / no connection / not placed (in a competition) / (in pop lyrics) no chance of love, no place to be together etc
HSK 7-9
predestined love / love affinity
geographic situation / geo-(politics etc)
to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action
to marginalize / marginalization
to be kindred spirits / to hit it off
a marriage predestined in a former life (idiom)
ill-fated relationship
chance / opportunity / destiny
relations with other people
flange
geostrategic
fringe
to originate / origin; genesis / account of the origins of an endeavor
border area
blood relationship; consanguinity
(idiom) to get happily married; to form an auspicious union
a marriage predestined by fate
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  *缘* | 缘* | *缘
cause / reason / karma / fate / predestined affinity / margin / hem / edge / along
(of a monk) to beg for food
destined to meet but not fated to be together (idiom)
distantly related / remote affinity
lit. climb a tree to catch a fish (idiom); fig. to attempt the impossible
(Buddhism) predestined relationship
geopolitics / geopolitical
to climb up (a rope etc); climbing (plant)
trailing edge (of airplane wing)
(idiom) no cause or reason; completely uncalled for
to originate from / to come from the fact that / owing to / because of
good karma
limbic system
related / brought together by fate
rim / edge of wheel
one's predestined fate is yet to be fulfilled (idiom)
to curry favor / to advance one's career by toadying
(literary) why?; for what reason?
to earn people's praise through one's good deeds (idiom)
to go with the flow; to accept things as they come
curb
good karma / opportune connection with marriage partner
to form ties / to become attached (to sb, sth)
reason / cause
to cling to the rich and powerful (idiom); to advance one's career by currying favor / social climbing
casual romance / short-lived relationship
(of a monk) to beg
marginalized people (not part of mainstream society) / marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring to a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either)
Jinghua Yuan or Flowers in the Mirror, Qing novel of fantasy and erudition (early 19th century) by Li Ruzhen 李汝珍
geopolitics
borderline personality disorder (BPD)
erhua variant of 人緣|人缘
HSK 7-9


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