| | (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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| | that's all / nothing more | HSK 7-9 |
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| | and then (what follows next) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | relatively speaking / comparatively speaking | 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 show respect from a distance (idiom) / to remain at a respectful distance | 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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| | to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished | HSK 7-9 |
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| | involuntary / automatically | HSK 7-9 |
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| | varying from person to person (idiom); different for each individual | HSK 7-9 |
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| | then / afterwards | HSK 7-9 |
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| | easy / with no difficulty | 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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| | to leave without saying good-bye | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) to blurt out; to let slip (an indiscreet remark) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in short / in a word / in brief | 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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| | it is obvious that... / as one can well imagine... | 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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| | to lump different matters together (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | unknown / unable to find out | HSK 7-9 |
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| | apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom) | 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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| | (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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| | the age of 30 | |
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| | therefore | |
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| | to drain the cup in one gulp (idiom) | |
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| | to run in the opposite direction (idiom); to run counter to | |
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| | it goes without saying; it is self-evident | |
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| | even / so much so that | |
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| | loose, but allows no escape (idiom, from Laozi 老子); the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape | |
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| | at home wherever one is (idiom); ready to adapt / flexible / to accept circumstances with good will | |
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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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| | If one can change after making a mistake, there is nothing better (idiom) | |
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| | to emerge to meet a historic destiny (idiom) / to arise at an opportune time / able to take advantage of an opportunity / to rise to the occasion | |
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| | not to be inferior in any aspects (idiom) / to surpass / to outdo / (derog.) to be even worse | |
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| | lit. to drop from the sky (idiom) / fig. to appear unexpectedly / to arise abruptly / out of the blue / to drop into one's lap | |
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| | to die peacefully / (fig.) to result in failure (without any outside interference); to come to nothing; to fizzle out | |
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| | suddenly / now (..., now...) | |
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| | (literary) very soon / before long | |
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| | to settle for second best / the next best thing | |
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| | to break the door down and enter (idiom) | |
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| | to come to a place on account of its reputation (idiom); attracted to visit a famous location | |
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| | to be unable to get into (a house, an organization, a field of study, a particular type of career etc) | |
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| | to clear off / to make a clean sweep of | |
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| | to lose what one has just obtained (idiom) | |
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| | to rush out through a door (idiom) | |
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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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| | metaphysics | |
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| | (idiom) to speak from the heart | |
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| | to brush past; to pass by (sb) / (fig.) to miss (an opportunity, a danger etc); to have a brush (with death) | |
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| | to agree without prior consultation / to happen to hold the same view | |
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| | to walk slowly up a flight of steps (idiom) | |
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| | to apply sth more broadly / by logical extension / and, by extension, | |
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| | occasionally / once in a while | |
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| | intimidate at the first glance (idiom); awe-inspiring / terrifying / overwhelming | |
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| | after that / then | |
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| | to blurt out without thinking (idiom) | |
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| | to speak and keep one's promise (idiom); as good as one's word | |
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| | applicable anywhere (idiom) | |
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| | to weigh one's abilities and act accordingly / to act according to one's means / to cut one's coat according to one's cloth | |
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| | study tirelessly (idiom, from Analects) | |
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| | to swagger off / to walk off (or drive off etc) without a second thought for those left behind | |
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| | to turn to (sth else); to switch to | |
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| | grandiose but impractical (idiom) / large but of no real use | |
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| | to bury one's head in one's hands and weep (idiom) | |
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| | to glare at | |
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| | generally speaking | |
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| | to skate around / to skip over / to skimp | |
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| | lit. to get up at sunrise and work until sunset (proverb) / fig. to lead a plain and hardworking life | |
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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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| | to withhold information / to keep sth secret | |
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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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| | untrustworthy; not true to one's word | |
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| | to work hard while accomplishing little / to toil to no avail | |
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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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| | (idiom) to know that it is so but not why it is so | |
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| | (idiom) to turn a blind eye to; to ignore | |
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| | to sweep past / to hurtle past / to swoosh past | |
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| | lit. not cold, yet shivering (idiom) / fig. to tremble with fear / to be terrified | |
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| | lit. the trees long for peace but the wind will never cease (idiom) / fig. the world changes, whether you want it or not | |
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| | to get round fast / to spread like wildfire | |
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| | to speak frankly with assurance | |
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| | to swarm around / flocking (to see) | |
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| | angry, but not daring to speak out (idiom); obliged to remain silent about one's resentment / unable to voice objections | |
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| | to return from a rewarding journey | |
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| | to come prepared | |
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| | to come one after the other | |
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| | in a nutshell / to put it briefly | |
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| | to come from far away | |
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| | lit. the end comes back to the start (idiom); the wheel comes full circle | |
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| | lit. to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom) / fig. to back out of an awkward situation; to get out on finding out what it's really like | |
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