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HSK
open-minded / humble
HSK 5
modest / self-effacing / to make modest remarks
HSK 6
false; phony; 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
to imagine; to make up / fictitious; theoretical; hypothetical / (computing) to emulate / (computing) virtual
HSK 7-9
weak / in poor health
HSK 7-9
false / hypocritical / artificial / sham
HSK 7-9
to make up / fabrication / fictional / imaginary
HSK 7-9
hollow / emptiness / meaningless
HSK 7-9
imaginary / illusory
HSK 7-9
to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
HSK 7-9
to fritter away (one's time)
(idiom) to have no basis in fact; to be the product of sb's imagination
deficiency of yin 陰|阴 (TCM)
(linguistics) function word
to reserve a seat / to leave a position vacant
nothingness
void / hollow / empty
dotted line / dashed line / (math.) imaginary line
what is true and what is false / (to get to know) the real situation
lacking in confidence / diffident / to have a guilty conscience
Taixu (famed Buddhist monk, 1890-1947)
great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos
(idiom) to live up to one's famous name; its reputation is well deserved
virtual reality
vanity
vanity
to have an undeserved reputation (idiom)
to misreport / fraudulent report
to partially obscure / (of a door, gate or window) slightly open; ajar; not fully shut; unlocked / (of a jacket or shirt) unbuttoned
false reputation
to feign civility (idiom)
deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated
deficiency of 氣|气 (TCM)
lit. a banquet with no empty seats / full house / capacity crowd / standing room only
fabricated
looks impressive but is worthless (idiom) / not as good as it looks / a reputation with no substance
to feel weak / to be diffident
(intentionally) mysterious; arcane
(idiom) it's been a worthwhile trip
to discuss matters of principle (as opposed to concrete issues)
hard to tell if it's real or sham
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
vain
empty words / false words
to enter by exploiting a weak spot (idiom); to take advantage of a lapse
an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy (idiom)
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
nihilism
to go through the motions
to take advantage of weakness
imaginary reputation / empty fame
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
(idiom) stay clear of the enemy's main force and strike at his weak points
depletion of the spleen (Chinese medicine)
virtual image
dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality
virtual circuit / VC
illusory; imaginary; fanciful
false friendship; hypocritical show of affection
receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom); modest and open-minded
deficiency of yang 陽|阳 (TCM)
false
to collapse (from dehydration or loss of blood) / heat exhaustion
to feel guilty as a thief (idiom); to have sth on one's conscience
subjunctive mood (grammar)
to reserve a seat for sb (idiom)
light and airy / floating
virtual private network (VPN)
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 play tricks / to deceive
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
to boast / to brag / boastful / exaggerative / pompous / bombastic
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
tricky and hypocritical
virtual reality markup language (VRML) (computing)
empty formality
nominal position
to waste time on worthless activities
imaginary star (in astrology)
white square character ( □ ), used to represent a missing ideograph
virtual private network (VPN)
to falsely or exaggeratedly label (a product)
null hypothesis (statistics)
virtual machine
false alert
empty wrist (method of painting)
to exist in name only / empty shell / useless (idiom)
Akasagarbha Bodhisattva
Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜
background blurring (photography)
virtual environment
(idiom) you cannot always trust what you hear, but seeing is believing
false but apparently real
that is true
modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong)
fiction
Switched Virtual Circuit / SVC
to let correct ideology guide practical work (idiom)

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