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brazen / audacious / outrageous / bold / daring / fearless
HSK 5
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gall bladder / courage / guts / gall / inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)
HSK 5
cowardice / timid
HSK 5
to get one’s courage up / to embolden
HSK 7-9
timidity / timid / cowardly
HSK 7-9
courage / nerve / guts
HSK 7-9
to tremble with fear (idiom) / scared witless
lit. to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾踐|勾践, in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom) / fig. to maintain one's resolve for revenge
to be scared out of one's wits / to scare stiff
openly and without fear / brazenly
solitary hero / maverick
lit. heart alarmed, trembling in fear (idiom); prostrate with fear / scared witless
to be scared out of one's wits (idiom)
rare food / ambrosia (delicacy)
(idiom) nervous; fearful; on edge
HSK 7-9
courage / boldness / guts
panic-stricken / scared out of one's wits
courageous
bear gall (used in TCM)
rough gentian / Japanese gentian (Gentiana scabra)
courage
to be scared stiff
courage / bravery
choline (amine related to vitamin B complex)
gentian violet C25H30ClN3 / crystal violet
panic-stricken
sea urchin
acetylcholine ACh (amine related to vitamin B complex)
to be perverse and suggestive towards the opposite sex, but shrinking back when provoked to act on it / to have perverted thoughts but no guts to actually do it / to be all talk and no action
the vacuum bottle within the outer case of a thermos
boldness; daring
frightening / frightened (idiom)
cholesterol
courage and resource
daring / presumptuous / daredevil
(courteous) to be so bold as to
bold and courageous hero (idiom)
bile duct
inner container (e.g. the rice pot inside a rice cooker, the vacuum bottle inside a thermos, the tank inside a hot water heater, the bladder of a football)
devoid of fear (idiom) / intrepid
hear the wind and lose gall (idiom); terror-stricken at the news
bilirubin
bile duct
individually courageous
(idiom) chicken-hearted; gutless
fullness for the bold, famine for the timid (idiom)
gallbladder
gallstone colic
to proceed with sth even though scared; to put on a brave face
coward
boldness in pursuing one's sexual urges
snake gall (used in TCM)
to eat bear heart and leopard gall (idiom) / to pluck up some courage
to act boldly
to treat one another with absolute sincerity (idiom); to show total devotion
bilirubin
choline esterase (ChE), hydrolyzing enzyme in blood plasma
cowardly
(coll.) bold / brazen / to have a lot of nerve
gall / bile
lit. to open one's liver and drip gall (idiom); wholehearted loyalty
outrageously bold in one's lust / debauched (idiom)
to be frightened to death
to dare (negative connotation) / to have the audacity to (do sth)
courage and insight
to be scared out of one's wits
extremely daring (idiom) / foolhardy
gallbladder
reckless / extremely daring
gallstone
Conyza blinii
courageous / bold
biliverdin
in mortal fear (idiom)
to fear / to be terrified
daring / bold / audacious
to tremble with fear
solitary hero / maverick
(idiom) to be completely honest and sincere
gallstone
to pour out one's heart (idiom)
gallstone
lit. red-bellied devotion (idiom); wholehearted loyalty / to serve sb with body and soul


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