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background; backdrop; context / (fig.) powerful backer / CL: 種|种
HSK 4
sleeveless garment (vest, waistcoat, singlet, tank top etc) / CL:
HSK 6
behind / at the back / in the rear / behind sb's back
HSK 3
knapsack / rucksack / infantry pack / field pack / blanket roll / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
the back of a body or object / to turn one's back / to hide something from / to learn by heart / to recite from memory / (slang) unlucky / hard of hearing
HSK 2
to go against / to be contrary to / to violate
HSK 7-9
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  *背* | 背* | *背
to be burdened / to carry on the back or shoulder
HSK 3
turning one's back to (sth or sb) / keeping sth secret from (sb) / keeping (one's hands) behind one's back
HSK 6
(bird species of China) black-backed forktail (Enicurus immaculatus)
secretly / in private / behind someone's back
to turn one's back / to turn around / fig. change in a very short time
(bird species of China) von Schrenck's bittern (Ixobrychus eurhythmus)
to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
educational background
to recite / to repeat from memory
HSK 7-9
to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle
the back / the reverse side / the wrong side
HSK 7-9
the back (human anatomy) / the back part of sth
background music (BGM) / soundtrack / musical setting
historical background
back to back
tank top / sleeveless undershirt
to bear / to carry on one's back / to shoulder
to serve as a sacrificial victim / to suffer for sb else / scapegoat / to share sb's fate
with one's hands clasped behind one's back
backpacker
back of the hand
back of a tiger and waist of a bear / tough and stocky build
to betray
HSK 7-9
background check
to depart from / to deviate from / deviation
to learn by rote / to mechanically memorize
to sweat profusely (idiom) / drenched in sweat
to be made a scapegoat; to be unjustly blamed
to recite (a text) from memory; to learn a text by heart / to back; to endorse (a political candidate, product, check etc) / backing; endorsement
feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom) / uneasy and nervous / to be on pins and needles
with one's hands behind one's back
to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom)
with back to the mountain (favored location)
Brokeback Mountain, 2005 English-language film by Ang Lee 李安
(slang) (neologism derived from 背黑鍋|背黑锅) to carry the can; to be a scapegoat
lit. fight with one's back to the river (idiom); fig. to fight to win or die
overalls / dungarees
spine
back of the knife
(idiom) to be crowded together
to backstab
to run in the opposite direction (idiom); to run counter to
camisole (women's garment)
(electronics) backlit screen
(lit.) chest sticking to back / (fig.) famished / (of several persons) packed chest to back
(bird species of China) greater scaup (Aythya marila)
anticline (geology)
hatchback
to break faith
the back of the human body
in the shade / shady
lit. both the palm and the back of the hand are made of flesh (idiom) / fig. to both be of equal importance / to value both equally
to turn away / to turn one's back to / (gymnastics etc) backspin
bad luck / unlucky
with back to the mountain and facing the water (favored location)
immoral; unethical
panel / back panel
carrying on one's back
hunchbacked / stooping / hunchback
to have one's back towards
slouch / stoop / poor posture
breaking faith and abandoning right (idiom); to betray / treachery / perfidy
background blurring (photography)
to have a weight on one's mind / to take on a mental burden
behind sb's back; secretly
to have sex with a prostitute
back-knocking massage
(bird species of China) white-shouldered starling (Sturnia sinensis)
to be hearing impaired
(idiom) arms around each other's shoulders
lit. to strangle the front and press the back (idiom) / fig. to occupy all key points (military)
(bird species of China) slaty-backed gull (Larus schistisagus)
braces / suspenders / sling (for a rifle) / straps (for a knapsack)
to be on intimate terms with sb (idiom)
horse's back / (traditional Chinese architecture) roof with a low-slung curved ridgelines and geometric shapes on the upper gable walls at the ends of the roof ridges
(bird species of China) chestnut-cheeked starling (Agropsar philippensis)
to be masturbated by a prostitute
(bird species of China) maroon-backed accentor (Prunella immaculata)
(bird species of China) common rock thrush (Monticola saxatilis)
battery case (for a phone)
outdated / out of luck
(HK) backstroke
(bird species of China) cinereous tit (Parus cinereus)
the back of a chair
(bird species of China) marsh grassbird (Helopsaltes pryeri)
homosexual (a reference to Brokeback Mountain 斷背山|断背山, a 2005 movie about a same-sex relationship)
(bird species of China) chestnut bulbul (Hemixos castanonotus)
(bird species of China) Blanford's snowfinch (Pyrgilauda blanfordi)
(bird species of China) slaty-backed forktail (Enicurus schistaceus)
to have one's back against / to lean against / to be backed up by (a mountain etc)
(of a garment) backless; halterneck
contrary / opposite
background check (abbr. for 背景調查|背景调查) / to conduct a background check
back (of a human or other vertebrate, or of an object)

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