| | thin / cold in manner / indifferent / weak / light / infertile | HSK 4 |
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| | weak; frail | HSK 5 |
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| | weak / frail / thin / flimsy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | meager / slight / weak / ungenerous or unkind / frivolous / to despise / to belittle / to look down on / to approach or near | |
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| | mint (plant) / Taiwan pr. [bo4he2] | |
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| | thin flat cake / pancake / pizza | |
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| | thin slice / thin section / flake / Taiwan pr. [bo2 pian4] | |
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| | scanty / meager | |
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| | (my inferior) wine (humble term used by a host) | |
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| | superficial | |
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| | mist / haze | |
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| | lit. to have accumulated knowledge and deliver it slowly (idiom) / good preparation is the key to success / to be well prepared | |
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| | thickness / also pr. [hou4 bo2] | |
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| | to favor one and discriminate against the other (abbr. for 厚此薄彼) | |
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| | lit. as if walking on thin ice (idiom) / fig. extremely cautious | |
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| | light (weight) / frivolous / a philanderer / to scorn / disrespectful | |
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| | thin / rarefied | |
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| | my humble effort / my meager contribution (humble) | |
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| | unkind / harsh / cutting / mean / acrimony / to embezzle by making illegal deductions | |
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| | dusk / twilight | |
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| | small profits | |
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| | thin plate / sheet / lamina / Taiwan pr. [bo2 ban3] | |
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| | to gush / to squirt / to surge / to well out / to overflow | |
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| | beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom) | |
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| | to be unduly humble (idiom) / to undervalue oneself | |
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| | supremely honorable and righteous | |
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| | inconstant in love / fickle | |
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| | crispy / thin and brittle / a crispy fried cracker | |
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| | thin paper (tissue paper, onionskin etc) | |
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| | my meager gift (humble) | |
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| | (idiom) lacking strength and support | |
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| | sharp and unkind (words) | |
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| | to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky | |
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| | (of land) infertile / barren | |
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| | my meager sensibilities / blushing face / please do it for my sake (i.e. to save my face)(humble) | |
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| | meanness and generosity / intimacy and alienation | |
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| | humble / meager / thin / to despise | |
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| | to be on the verge of eruption (idiom) / (of the sun) to emerge in all its brilliance | |
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| | meager estate / small means | |
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| | feeler gauge | |
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| | thin / light / flagging / faint | |
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| | mean treatment / indifference / meager hospitality | |
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| | to revere the past and neglect the present (idiom) | |
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| | to despise / to scorn | |
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| | barren land / poor soil | |
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| | to favour one and discriminate against the other | |
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| | garrulous and sharp-tongued | |
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| | little virtue and meager abilities (idiom); I'm a humble person and not much use at anything (Song writer Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修) | |
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| | (idiom) hasty and rude; caustic and sharp-tongued | |
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| | fickle / inconstant person | |
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| | dim light / early dawn | |
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| | bashful / shy | |
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| | barren field / poor land | |
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| | meager; poor | |
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| | frivolous; superficial | |
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| | mint (confectionery) | |
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| | at dusk / evening | |
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| | peppermint oil | |
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| | gauze (cloth) | |
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| | to despise / to look down upon sth | |
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| | small profit but rapid turnover | |
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| | vast area / all the way to the sea | |
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| | Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Italian writer, poet, and humanist, author of Decameron 十日談|十日谈 | |
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| | harsh and merciless (idiom) | |
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| | catnip; catmint | |
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| | weak link / loophole | |
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| | menthone (chemistry) | |
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| | pancake | |
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| | (chemistry) menthol | |
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| | thin lens (optics) | |
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| | foil / Taiwan pr. [jin1 shu3 bo2 pian4] | |
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| | Raymond Burghard (1945-), US diplomat and ambassador to Vietnam 2001-2004, chairman of American Institute in Taiwan from 2006 | |
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| | small reward (for work) / meager remuneration | |
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| | lit. light mouth, thin tongue (idiom); hasty and rude / caustic and sharp-tongued | |
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| | to be unlucky | |
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| | Bo Xilai (1949-), PRC politician, appointed to the Politburo in 2007, sentenced in 2013 to life imprisonment for corruption and misconduct | |
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| | (idiom) frivolous | |
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| | savory (herb) | |
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| | lit. to praise the dead and revile the living / fig. to live in the past (idiom) | |
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| | generous care but a thrifty funeral / to look after one's parents generously, but not waste money on a lavish funeral | |
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| | thinning scissors | |
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| | (finance) to dilute (earnings per share) | |
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| | diluted earnings per share | |
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| | lit. the sun sets in Yanzi (idiom) / fig. the day is drawing to an end / the last days (of a person, a dynasty etc) | |
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| | lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom) / fig. destitute | |
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| | peppermint | |
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| | thin-skinned / sensitive | |
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| | Bo Yibo (1908-2007), ranking PRC politician, served on State Council from 1950s to 1980s as colleague of Deng Xiaoping | |
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| | thin layer / thin slice / film / lamina / lamella | |
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| | meager skill / my poor talents (humble) | |
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| | at dawn | |
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| | oil sheet | |
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| | light silk / silk chiffon | |
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| | eggshell china | |
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| | to neglect one's parents but give them a rich funeral / hypocrisy in arranging a lavish funeral after treating one's parents meanly | |
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| | thin coat, meager food (idiom); life of wretched poverty / destitute | |
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