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| | reader | HSK 3 |
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| | reporter; journalist / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | author; writer | HSK 3 |
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| | volunteer | HSK 3 |
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| | scholar | HSK 5 |
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| | consumer | HSK 5 |
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| | patient; sufferer | HSK 6 |
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| | emissary / envoy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the latter | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the former | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the author; the writer (usu. refers to oneself) | |
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| | ninja | |
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| | old man; elderly man | |
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| | sage / wise man / clever and knowledgeable person | |
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| | both sides | |
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| | both / both of them / neither | |
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| | pedestrian / walker / itinerant monk | |
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| | attendant / waiter | |
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| | well-known figure / excellent (person, company etc) | |
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| | listener / member of audience | |
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| | dancer | |
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| | rambler / a person strolling about | |
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| | senior / older person | |
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| | the dead / the deceased | |
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| | translator (of writing) | |
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| | lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom) / fig. the originator of an evil practice | |
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| | survival of the fittest | |
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| | editor; compiler | |
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| | winner | |
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| | runaway | |
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| | those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained black (idiom) / you are the product of your environment | |
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| | forerunner | |
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| | lit. 之, 乎, 者 and 也 (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions | |
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| | property owner / the wealthy | |
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| | casualty / victim (of an accident) / wounded person | |
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| | to refuse nobody (idiom) / all comers welcome | |
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| | Confucian | |
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| | North Korean refugee | |
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| | (idiom) an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved | |
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| | proletariat / non-propertied person | |
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| | (idiom) it's the most capable people who do the most work (intended as consolation for the overworked, or flattery when making a request etc) | |
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| | an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved (idiom) | |
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| | dealer / trader / person or company engaged in some industry or trade | |
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| | don't blame the speaker, take note of his warning (idiom); an exhortation to speak one's mind without fear of reprisals, and with the expectation of being taken seriously | |
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| | holy one / saint | |
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| | there has never been and never will be another person like this (idiom) / never done before and unlikely to be matched in the future / peerless | |
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| | participant | |
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| | supporter | |
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| | the dead / the deceased | |
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| | others / (sociology, philosophy) the Other | |
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| | the deceased | |
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| | inhabitant | |
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| | victim (of a wounding or murder) | |
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| | worker | |
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| | investigator / researcher | |
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| | Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch! / Workers of the world, unite! | |
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| | player | |
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| | ruler | |
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| | user | |
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| | observer | |
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| | designer / architect (of a project) | |
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| | proprietor / owner | |
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| | less serious case / in less severe cases | |
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| | runner | |
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| | (linguistics) speaker | |
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| | composer / song writer | |
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| | attendant | |
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| | dictator / autocrat | |
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| | infected person | |
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| | hypocrite | |
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| | publisher | |
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| | violator | |
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| | offender / culprit | |
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| | honored sir (a person of higher status or seniority, or a Buddhist monk) | |
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| | follower / adherent / following | |
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| | interviewer | |
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| | He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom). / Be careful not to trust foreigners. / Beware of Greeks bearing gifts! | |
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| | informer / snitch | |
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| | co-worker / collaborator / also collaborator with the enemy | |
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| | for the benefit of the reader | |
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| | socialist | |
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| | traveler | |
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| | survivor of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
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| | producer (of goods, commodities or farm produce etc) / manufacturer / (biology) autotroph | |
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| | watchman | |
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| | victor / winner | |
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| | forger | |
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| | proponent / supporter / upholder | |
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| | The benevolent sees benevolence, the wise sees wisdom. / Different views are admissible. (idiom) | |
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| | editor's commentary | |
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| | ruler | |
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| | sick person; patient | |
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| | Mohist / follower of Mohist school | |
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| | developer | |
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| | "land to the tiller", post-Liberation land reform movement instigated by the CCP | |
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