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HSK
to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
HSK 7-9
open-minded / humble
HSK 5
modest / self-effacing / to make modest remarks
HSK 6
depletion of the spleen (Chinese medicine)
a person who is in poor health cannot handle sth so strong as a tonic
false alert
virtual reality
(idiom) to live up to one's famous name; its reputation is well deserved
to enter by exploiting a weak spot (idiom); to take advantage of a lapse
false; phony; sham
HSK 7-9
deficiency of 氣|气 (TCM)
light and airy / floating
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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
what is true and what is false / (to get to know) the real situation
false / hypocritical / artificial / sham
HSK 7-9
to feel guilty as a thief (idiom); to have sth on one's conscience
to make up / fabrication / fictional / imaginary
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength
looks impressive but is worthless (idiom) / not as good as it looks / a reputation with no substance
nothingness
(coll.) all show and no substance
to exist in name only / empty shell / useless (idiom)
nominal position
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
virtual environment
(after a pronoun or name) what (you, they etc) say is true
(linguistics) function word
deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated
to boast / to brag / boastful / exaggerative / pompous / bombastic
that is true
void / hollow / empty
to take advantage of weakness
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.
to imagine; to make up / fictitious; theoretical; hypothetical / (computing) to emulate / (computing) virtual
HSK 7-9
hollow / emptiness / meaningless
HSK 7-9
(idiom) it's been a worthwhile trip
lit. a banquet with no empty seats / full house / capacity crowd / standing room only
lacking in confidence / diffident / to have a guilty conscience
to feign civility (idiom)
(idiom) to have no basis in fact; to be the product of sb's imagination
imaginary / illusory
HSK 7-9
fabricated
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
subjunctive mood (grammar)
fiction
to miss the target (with a bullet or an arrow)
tricky and hypocritical
Taixu (famed Buddhist monk, 1890-1947)
great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos
virtual private network (VPN)
dotted line / dashed line / (math.) imaginary line
deficiency of yang 陽|阳 (TCM)
Permanent Virtual Circuit / PVC
vanity
false alarm / panic rumor / CL: 場|场
background blurring (photography)
virtual connection
to misreport / fraudulent report
modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong)
receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom); modest and open-minded
virtual private network (VPN)
weak / in poor health
HSK 7-9
to possess an undeserved reputation (idiom)
to reserve a seat / to leave a position vacant
virtual image
vanity
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
to collapse (from dehydration or loss of blood) / heat exhaustion
false
imaginary reputation / empty fame
to have an undeserved reputation (idiom)
imaginary number
empty wrist (method of painting)
hard to tell if it's real or sham
with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be
to feel weak / to be diffident
nihilism
Akasagarbha Bodhisattva
deficiency of yin 陰|阴 (TCM)
false friendship; hypocritical show of affection
(TCM) consumptive disease, chronic deficiency disorder due to impaired function of inner organs, deficiency of qi, blood, yin and yang / asthenia
people who like to window-shop for unaffordable luxuries
empty formality
virtual network
to listen to the ideas of others with an open mind (idiom)
to play tricks / to deceive
to let correct ideology guide practical work (idiom)
to waste time on worthless activities
virtual circuit / VC
four-square box in which one practices writing a Chinese character
to fritter away (one's time)
to falsely or exaggeratedly label (a product)
modest and studious (idiom)
to go through the motions
virtual reality markup language (VRML) (computing)
dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality
virtual reality (Tw)
white square character ( □ ), used to represent a missing ideograph

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