| | thread / string / wire / line / CL: 條|条, 股, 根 / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city) | HSK 3 |
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| | light ray / CL: 條|条, 道 / light / illumination / lighting (for a photograph) | HSK 5 |
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| | front line | HSK 7-9 |
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| | itinerary / route / political line (e.g. right revisionist road) / CL: 條|条 | HSK 3 |
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| | front line / military front / workface / cutting edge | HSK 7-9 |
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| | trail / clues / thread (of a story) | HSK 5 |
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| | hotline (communications link) | HSK 6 |
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| | straight line / sharply (rise or fall) | HSK 5 |
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| | front line / forefront | HSK 7-9 |
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| | insider trading (illegal share-dealing) | |
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| | short term | |
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| | the starting line (of a race) / scratch line (in a relay race) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to go online; to put sth online / to reach a specific standard / to put into production / handler (person who oversees and directs the activities of another person in a gang, spy ring etc) | |
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| | cease-fire line | |
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| | passing line or score (in an examination) | |
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| | police cordon / alert level | |
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| | plumbline | |
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| | Siegfried Line, line of German military defenses during WWI and WWII | |
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| | candlestick (in a candlestick chart) | |
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| | lip liner | |
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| | horizontal line (in a fraction) / minimum passing score | |
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| | radio; wireless (i.e. the technology used in radio telecommunication) / a radio | HSK 7-9 |
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| | trunk line (of road, network etc) / backbone (cable) | |
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| | the whole front (in a war) / the whole length (of a road or railway line) | |
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| | outline; silhouette | |
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| | online; connected to the Internet / (fig.) (coll.) (of a person) mentally focused; engaged; (of skills, performance etc) sharp; on point; functioning at a high level | HSK 7-9 |
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| | a hair's breadth apart / a fine line / a fine distinction | |
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| | cable television | |
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| | antenna; aerial / (fig.) connection to higher authorities; channel to influential people | HSK 7-9 |
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| | line of sight | HSK 7-9 |
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| | coastline / seaboard / shoreline | |
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| | cable / wire / cord (computer) | |
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| | candlestick chart | |
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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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| | bottom line; the limit of what one is prepared to accept / (sports) baseline / (sewing) under thread / spy; informer; plant | HSK 7-9 |
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| | foreshadowing (literary device) | |
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| | line (in drawing, calligraphy etc) / the lines or contours of a three-dimensional object (hairstyle, clothing, car etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | FireWire (IEEE 1394 data-transfer interface) | |
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| | firing line (battle) / live electrical wire | |
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| | (electricity) line; circuit; wire / (traffic) road; track; route | HSK 6 |
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| | main line (of communication) / main thread (of a plotline or concept) / central theme | |
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| | online | |
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| | along the line (e.g. railway) / the region near the line | HSK 7-9 |
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| | crosswalk / pedestrian crossing with zebra stripes | |
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| | America Online (AOL) | |
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| | to delineate / to draw a line / to underline | |
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| | cotton thread / yarn cotton | |
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| | lifeline | HSK 7-9 |
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| | fuse (for explosives) / (fig.) proximate cause / the last straw | |
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| | (politics) popular front | |
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| | assembly line / (computing) pipeline | |
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| | cosmic ray | |
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| | a gleam of hope | |
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| | assembly line / production line | |
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| | line chart | |
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| | busy (telephone line) | |
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| | the mass line, CCP term for Party policy aimed at broadening and cultivating contacts with the masses | |
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| | wireless | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (computing) offline | |
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| | cubic curve (geometry) | |
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| | ray | |
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| | (music) bar line | |
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| | to have a ripped seam | |
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| | linear wave | |
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| | ruler (used for drawing lines) | |
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| | horizon | |
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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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| | infrared ray | |
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| | line of magnetic flux | |
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| | gleam | |
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| | to do needlework | |
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| | to get disconnected (from the Internet) | |
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| | (math.) perpendicular line / vertical line | |
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| | horizontal line / (math.) horizontal axis | |
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| | a fine line / a fine distinction | |
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| | (idiom) a chance of survival; a fighting chance; a ray of hope | |
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| | (math.) algebraic curve | |
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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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| | line graph / line diagram | |
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| | (computing) near-field communication (NFC) | |
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| | main line / trunk line | |
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| | use a long line to catch a big fish (idiom); a long-term plan for major returns | |
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| | (computing) Universal Serial Bus; USB | |
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| | timeline | |
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| | outer ring (road or rail line) | |
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| | Tropic of Capricorn | |
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| | domestic flight / internal line (air, train, ferry etc) | |
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| | national border | |
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| | to exceed / to overstep the limit | |
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| | boundary line / border line | |
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| | rifling (spiral lines on inside of gun barrel imparting spin to the bullet) | |
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| | switchboard operator | |
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| | dotted line / dashed line / (math.) imaginary line | |
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| | telephone line | |
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| | high tension power line | |
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| | skyline / horizon | |
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| | hatched lines / cross-hatched graphic pattern | |
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| | transmission line | |
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| | crosswalk / zebra crossing | |
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| | the Greenwich meridian | |
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