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HSK
open-minded / humble
HSK 5
modest / self-effacing / to make modest remarks
HSK 6
to make up / fabrication / fictional / imaginary
HSK 7-9
to imagine; to make up / fictitious; theoretical; hypothetical / (computing) to emulate / (computing) virtual
HSK 7-9
weak / in poor health
HSK 7-9
hollow / emptiness / meaningless
HSK 7-9
false; phony; sham
HSK 7-9
to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
HSK 7-9
false / hypocritical / artificial / sham
HSK 7-9
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emptiness / void / abstract theory or guiding principles / empty or unoccupied / diffident or timid / false / humble or modest / (of health) weak / virtual / in vain
HSK 7-9
imaginary / illusory
HSK 7-9
imaginary number
virtual machine
vanity
nominal position
virtual circuit / VC
(idiom) to have no basis in fact; to be the product of sb's imagination
dotted line / dashed line / (math.) imaginary line
to feign civility (idiom)
four-square box in which one practices writing a Chinese character
false alarm / panic rumor / CL: 場|场
with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be
(idiom) you cannot always trust what you hear, but seeing is believing
void / hollow / empty
nothingness
deficiency of 氣|气 (TCM)
what is true and what is false / (to get to know) the real situation
deficiency of yang 陽|阳 (TCM)
(idiom) it's been a worthwhile trip
to fritter away (one's time)
to discuss matters of principle (as opposed to concrete issues)
to collapse (from dehydration or loss of blood) / heat exhaustion
false reputation
virtual image
fabricated
to misreport / fraudulent report
(idiom) to live up to one's famous name; its reputation is well deserved
one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春 each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
to enter by exploiting a weak spot (idiom); to take advantage of a lapse
to feel guilty as a thief (idiom); to have sth on one's conscience
(idiom) to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength
(linguistics) function word
illusory; imaginary; fanciful
deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated
to partially obscure / (of a door, gate or window) slightly open; ajar; not fully shut; unlocked / (of a jacket or shirt) unbuttoned
to reserve a seat / to leave a position vacant
receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom); modest and open-minded
lacking in confidence / diffident / to have a guilty conscience
false friendship; hypocritical show of affection
(intentionally) mysterious; arcane
hard to tell if it's real or sham
(idiom) stay clear of the enemy's main force and strike at his weak points
empty words / false words
to take advantage of weakness
to hide one's treasure away so that no-one knows about it (idiom); fig. modest about one's talents / to hide one's light under a bushel
to boast / to brag / boastful / exaggerative / pompous / bombastic
light and airy / floating
Switched Virtual Circuit / SVC
dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality
white square character ( □ ), used to represent a missing ideograph
background blurring (photography)
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
to go through the motions
subjunctive mood (grammar)
to feel weak / to be diffident
deficiency of yin 陰|阴 (TCM)
empty formality
looks impressive but is worthless (idiom) / not as good as it looks / a reputation with no substance
to exist in name only / empty shell / useless (idiom)
virtual environment
Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜
Akasagarbha Bodhisattva
vanity
an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy (idiom)
nihilism
modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong)
virtual reality (Tw)
virtual private network (VPN)
to reserve a seat for sb (idiom)
(TCM) consumptive disease, chronic deficiency disorder due to impaired function of inner organs, deficiency of qi, blood, yin and yang / asthenia
vain
a person who is in poor health cannot handle sth so strong as a tonic
modest and studious (idiom)
virtual network
to let correct ideology guide practical work (idiom)
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
(after a pronoun or name) what (you, they etc) say is true
virtual particle
virtual reality
Taixu (famed Buddhist monk, 1890-1947)
great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos
lit. a banquet with no empty seats / full house / capacity crowd / standing room only
to possess an undeserved reputation (idiom)
that is true
Permanent Virtual Circuit / PVC
to have an undeserved reputation (idiom)
to believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself. / It ain't necessarily so.

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