| | (not only ...) but also / moreover / in addition / furthermore | HSK 2 |
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| | and / as well as / and so / but (not) / yet (not) / (indicates causal relation) / (indicates change of state) / (indicates contrast) | HSK 4 |
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| | however; but; yet | HSK 4 |
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| | rather | HSK 4 |
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| | on the contrary; instead | HSK 4 |
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| | thus / thereby | HSK 5 |
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| | therefore / as a result / thus / and as a result, ... | HSK 5 |
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| | occasionally; from time to time | HSK 6 |
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| | easy / with no difficulty | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) to blurt out; to let slip (an indiscreet remark) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | that's all / nothing more | HSK 7-9 |
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| | involuntary / automatically | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) (it) goes without saying; can well be imagined | HSK 7-9 |
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| | clearly and easy to see (idiom); obviously / clearly / it goes without saying | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to leave without saying good-bye | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to lump different matters together (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to disappear without trace / to vanish all of a sudden / to spread fast / to spread like wildfire | HSK 7-9 |
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| | then / afterwards | HSK 7-9 |
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| | varying from person to person (idiom); different for each individual | HSK 7-9 |
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| | apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) to replace; to supersede; to take its (or her etc) place | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to show respect from a distance (idiom) / to remain at a respectful distance | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) (of two or more people) to take the same action without prior consultation; (usu. used adverbially) all (or both) of them, independently; as if by prior agreement | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in short / in a word / in brief | HSK 7-9 |
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| | relatively speaking / comparatively speaking | HSK 7-9 |
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| | unknown / unable to find out | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. sth hits one in the face / directly in one's face / sth assaults the senses / blatant (advertising) / eye-catching / (a smell) assaults the nostrils | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to reveal one's talent (idiom) / to rise above others; to distinguish oneself | HSK 7-9 |
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| | and then (what follows next) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to jump up suddenly / to bound up / to rise up in one bound | |
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| | comparatively speaking | |
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| | (idiom) from bottom to top; from the grass roots up; bottom-up | |
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| | to lose what one has just obtained (idiom) | |
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| | rooted to the spot (idiom); too terrified to move | |
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| | lit. to live and sleep together (idiom); fig. a close friendship | |
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| | applicable anywhere (idiom) | |
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| | to sail against the current / (fig.) to go against the flow | |
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| | to sweep past / to hurtle past / to swoosh past | |
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| | (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法) to deploy one's troops in such a way that there is no possibility of retreat, so that they will fight for their lives and win the battle; to fight desperately when confronted with mortal danger; to find a way to emerge from a dire situation | |
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| | faithful unto death (i.e. Confucian ban on widow remarrying) | |
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| | to sell only for a good price (idiom) / to wait for a good offer | |
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| | grandiose but impractical (idiom) / large but of no real use | |
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| | to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects) / to recall the past to understand the future | |
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| | lit. to drain the pond to get at the fish (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs | |
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| | (typically preceded by 就…[jiu4 xx5] or 對…｜ 对…[dui4 xx5] etc) as far as ... is concerned; speaking in terms of ... | |
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| | lit. the cycle comes back to the start (idiom); to move in circles / the wheel comes full circle | |
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| | globally; worldwide | |
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| | to recover spontaneously (from an illness) / to get better without medical treatment | |
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| | to speak frankly with assurance | |
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| | to return without any achievement (idiom); to go home with one's tail between one's legs | |
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| | to respond instantly / to act at once on hearing the news | |
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| | to agree without prior consultation / to happen to hold the same view | |
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| | to assess one's capabilities and act accordingly (idiom); to act within one's competence / One does what one can. | |
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| | a fine bird chooses a tree to nest in (proverb) / fig. a talented person chooses a patron of integrity | |
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| | lit. to speak of two things on the same day (idiom); to mention things on equal terms (often with negatives: you can't mention X at the same time as Y) | |
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| | to step forward bravely | |
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| | to get there in one step (idiom); easily done / success at a stroke / to get results overnight | |
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| | therefore | |
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| | to break the door down and enter (idiom) | |
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| | in a nutshell / to put it briefly | |
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| | to drain the cup in one gulp (idiom) | |
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| | after that / then | |
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| | (idiom) from top to bottom; top-down | |
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| | to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation from the essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記｜岳阳楼记 by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹) | |
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| | (idiom) to come back to life (after death) | |
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| | lit. not cold, yet shivering (idiom) / fig. to tremble with fear / to be terrified | |
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| | (idiom) to turn a blind eye to; to ignore | |
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| | Life is short, learning is limitless / Ars longa, vita brevis | |
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| | lit. (bamboo) splits when it meets the knife's edge (idiom) / fig. easily solved | |
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| | lit. a monkey wearing a hat (idiom) / fig. worthless person in imposing attire | |
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| | lit. to shrink back at the sight of (sth daunting) (idiom) / fig. to be deterred | |
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| | (idiom) to refrain from going too far; to know when to stop | |
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| | (idiom) to reap without sowing; to get sth without working for it; to sponge off others | |
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| | to lose sth and then regain it (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) to make a clean sweep of; to clean out | |
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| | to bend to a task and spare no effort unto one's dying day (idiom); striving to the utmost one's whole life / with every breath in one's body, unto one's dying day | |
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| | to run in the opposite direction (idiom); to run counter to | |
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| | over time / as time passes / in the fullness of time | |
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| | to part on bad terms / (of a meeting etc) to break up in discord | |
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| | to come one after the other | |
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| | to enter by exploiting a weak spot (idiom); to take advantage of a lapse | |
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| | to settle for second best / the next best thing | |
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| | thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius) | |
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| | to flash past / to flit by | |
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| | to arrive in huge numbers / to flock there | |
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| | lit. arising suddenly above the level ground (idiom); sudden emergence of prominent new feature | |
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| | at home wherever one is (idiom); ready to adapt / flexible / to accept circumstances with good will | |
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| | flower but no fruit (idiom); handsome exterior but hollow inside / flashy | |
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| | to come prepared | |
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| | lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law | |
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| | to turn to (sth else); to switch to | |
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| | to sit on the ground or the floor (idiom) | |
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| | soon after / later / then | |
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| | metaphysics | |
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| | meet by chance / have a chance encounter | |
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| | suddenly / now (..., now...) | |
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| | better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom) / one should take practical steps to achieve one's aim | |
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