modest / self-effacing / to make modest remarks

open-minded / humble

false / phony / pretense

vanity

false / hypocritical / artificial / sham

hollow / emptiness / meaningless

to imagine / to make up / fictitious / theoretical / hypothetical / (computing) to emulate / virtual

virtual machine

virtual reality

to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery

emptiness / void / abstract theory or guiding principles / empty or unoccupied / diffident or timid / false / humble or modest / (of health) weak / virtual / in vain

to make up / fabrication / fictional / imaginary

what is true and what is false / (to get to know) the real situation

dotted line / dashed line / (math.) imaginary line

to reserve a seat / to leave a position vacant

deficiency of yin 陰｜阴 in TCM

imaginary / illusory

nothingness

void / hollow / empty

Taixu (famed Buddhist monk, 1890-1947)

great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos

weak / in poor health

lacking in confidence / diffident / to have a guilty conscience

excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself

subjunctive mood (grammar)

false reputation

virtual private network (VPN)

depletion of the spleen (Chinese medicine)

deficiency of 氣｜气 (TCM)

to discuss guidelines / to discuss principles to be followed

lit. a banquet with no empty seats / full house / capacity crowd / standing room only

to fritter away (one's time)

deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated

to misreport / fraudulent report

lit. name is not in vain (idiom); a fully justified reputation / enjoys a well-deserved reputation

(linguistics) function word

virtual environment

vain

vanity

to enter by exploiting a weak spot (idiom); to take advantage of a lapse

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)

false alarm / panic rumor / CL: 場｜场

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 is one year at birth, and increases by one year at the beginning of the first solar term 立春 each year, rather than on one's birthday. / as opposed to 足歲｜足岁 / see also 實歲｜实岁

virtual network

nominal position

imaginary number

(TCM) consumptive disease, chronic deficiency disorder due to impaired function of inner organs, deficiency of qi, blood, yin and yang / asthenia

to take advantage of weakness

unreal / illusory / imaginary / vague and with nothing in it

false friendship / hypocritical show of affection

to boast / to brag / boastful / exaggerative / pompous / bombastic

virtual connection

hard to tell if it's real or sham

(false) bravado / to bluff

Take what you hear to be false, only believe it when you see it (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself. / It ain't necessarily so.

nihilism

to waste time on worthless activities

modest and studious (idiom)

virtual circuit / VC

Akasagarbha Bodhisattva

Modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you drop behind (favorite slogan of Mao Zedong)

imaginary star (in astrology)

the trip has not been made in vain / the trip has been well worthwhile / it's been a worthwhile trip

to have an undeserved reputation (idiom)

receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom); modest and open-minded

fabricated

an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy (idiom)

a person who is in poor health cannot handle sth so strong as a tonic

virtual image

to feign civility (idiom)

false alert

to feel weak / to be diffident

to miss the target (with a bullet or an arrow)

to feel guilty as a thief (idiom); to have sth on one's conscience

dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality

background blurring (photography)

with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be

deceitful trick / mystery / unfathomable

Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜

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

virtual reality (Tw)

to reserve a seat for sb (idiom)

to play tricks / to deceive

to collapse (from dehydration or loss of blood) / heat exhaustion

(idiom) stay clear of the enemy's main force and strike at his weak points

fiction

virtual private network (VPN)

to let correct ideology guide practical work (idiom)

imaginary reputation / empty fame

four-square box in which one practices writing a Chinese character

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 go through the motions

tricky and hypocritical

to listen to the ideas of others with an open mind (idiom)

false

light and airy / floating

Permanent Virtual Circuit / PVC

white square character ( □ ), used to represent a missing ideograph

people who like to window-shop for unaffordable luxuries