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fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy
to oppose corruption / anti-graft (measures, policy etc)
corruption / to corrupt / to rot / rotten
HSK 7-9
mapo tofu / stir-fried beancurd in chili sauce
to rot / to decay / to become corrupt
HSK 7-9
flowing water does not rot
lit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom)
lit. flowing water does not rot, nor a door-hinge rust (idiom) / fig. constant activity prevents decay
to grumble / to chatter away incessantly
pedantic / trite / inflexible / adherence to old ideas
rotproof / antiseptic / anti-corrosion
rolls of dried soymilk cream (used in cooking after being rehydrated)
to have a sharp tongue but a soft heart (idiom)
to fight corruption and forestall moral degeneration
jellied tofu / soft bean curd
jellied tofu / soft bean curd
corruption
fried tofu (cubes)
putrid belching (medical term)
perishable
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decay / rotten
rotten (smell) / stinking / putrid
(lit. and fig.) corrosive / corrosiveness
okara (i.e. soy pulp, a by-product of making soymilk or tofu)
fujoshi (woman who likes manga about male homosexual love) (derived from Japanese 腐女子 "fujoshi")
to rot / to spoil / (fig.) to become corrupted
putrid belching with regurgitation of stomach acid (medical term)
to rot / to putrefy / (fig.) corrupt
HSK 7-9
trite / clichéd / empty and trite / banality / platitude
to fight corruption and advocate probity
stinky tofu / strong-smelling preserved beancurd / fig. rough exterior but lovable person
jerry-built building project / lit. built on soybean dregs
to take liberties with (a woman) / to tease with sexual innuendo / to sexually harass / to take advantage of sb
fermented bean curd
see 豆干
tofu skin (made by drying the skin that forms on the surface of soymilk during cooking, and therefore not actually made from tofu)
a corrosive (chemical)
the God of Thunder strikes bean curd / fig. to bully the weakest person / to pick on an easy target
home-style tofu
proof against corrosion
humus (topsoil of decayed vegetation)
humic acid
(idiom) corruption
anti-corruption
decomposed corpse
rotten / decayed / decadent / degenerate
HSK 7-9
anti-corruption
lit. like tofu strung on horsetail, you can't lift it / fig. let's not talk of this (pun on )
almond tofu; almond jelly (dessert made with apricot kernel milk, sugar and agar)
hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom) / one just has to be patient / haste will ruin everything
the God of Thunder strikes bean curd, a bully picks the weakest person / to pick on an easy target
preservative / antiseptic
to detest sth or sb to the utmost extreme (idiom)
egg tofu (a Japanese egg-based delicacy with a smooth, silken texture similar to tofu)
castration (a form of punishment during the Han period)
rotting flesh; carrion
lit. knife mouth but heart of bean curd; sharp tongue concealing a caring heart
Cymbidium macrorrhizum Lindl.
fermented soybean curd
four seasons beancurd
outmoded / decadent / decaying
putrid belching (medical term)
corruption
belching of sour putrid gas (medical term)
tofu / bean curd
HSK 4
isohumisol (soil taxonomy)
pickled tofu
corrosion / to corrode (degrade chemically) / to rot / corruption
HSK 7-9
the crime of corruption
scavenger
UK (slang term reflecting a perception of UK as decadent for its attitudes toward homosexuality)


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