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HSK
in the same place / together / with / altogether (in total)
HSK 1
I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon / to let (sb) down; to disappoint
HSK 1
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  *起* | 起* | *起
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group
HSK 1
to recall / to think of / to call to mind
HSK 2
to look down upon / to despise
HSK 4
amazing / terrific / extraordinary
HSK 4
to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse
HSK 4
to mention / to speak of / to lift / to pick up / to arouse / to raise (a topic, a heavy weight, one's fist, one's spirits etc)
HSK 5
to originate / to initiate / to launch (an attack, an initiative etc) / to start / to propose sth (for the first time)
HSK 6
to show respect for / to think highly of
HSK 6
compared with
HSK 7-9
cannot afford / can't afford buying
HSK 7-9
to look down upon; to hold in contempt
HSK 7-9
to rise / to spring up / to burgeon / to be aroused / to come into vogue
HSK 7-9
to lift; to raise (a lid etc) / (of a storm) to surge; to stir up (waves etc) / (fig.) to trigger; set off (a wave of popularity, a controversy etc)
HSK 7-9
to arouse / to evoke / to cause / to stir up
HSK 7-9
not to let sb down / to treat sb fairly / be worthy of
HSK 7-9
to provoke / to stir up / to incite
HSK 7-9
to rise abruptly (to a towering position) / to tower over / to spring up / to emerge suddenly / the emergence (e.g. of a power)
HSK 7-9
to waken (to action) / to rouse (the masses) / to evoke (attention, recollection etc)
HSK 7-9
continuously arising / to arise repeatedly
HSK 7-9
to mention / to speak of / to talk about
HSK 7-9
(of a sound) to come forth / (of a sound source) to ring out / to sound / to go off
HSK 7-9
to heave / to lift / to raise up / to uphold
to get up early
to originate / origin; genesis / account of the origins of an endeavor
to raise / to hoist / to rise
can't afford to offend / dare not provoke / difficult to deal with / insufferable
erection / to have an erection
lit. to return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom); fig. to make a comeback
early to bed, early to rise; to keep early hours
to mention / to bring up (a subject) / with regard to / as for
to raise one's head / to perk up
to arise again / to make a comeback / resurgence
to erect (a tent etc) / to prick up (one's ears) / to raise (one's eyebrows) / to stick up (one's thumb) / to turn up (one's collar) / (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)
lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war
to rise high; to spring up
to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
to hoist
to stick up / to point sth up
to appear / to emerge / to surface
to feel unconcerned and let matters rest (idiom)
to spring up everywhere / from all around
to emerge as a new force to be reckoned with (idiom)
variant of 捲起|卷起
can't stand it / to be unable to bear / to be unable to resist
to take defeat with bad grace / to be a sore loser / cannot afford to lose
to be able to withstand / to be able to endure
towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom) / great oaks from little acorns grow
fire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war
convex / protruding / to protrude / to bulge / to buckle upwards
to raise / to lift up (curtains, clothing etc)
to swell; to bulge
to well up / to boil out / to bubble forth / to spurt
to appear suddenly / projection / bit sticking out
each new high point replaced by another / (of a movie etc) one climax after another
to appear on the scene / to arise suddenly
lit. to shake one's sleeves and rise (idiom) / fig. to get excited and move to action
to roll up / to curl up / (of dust etc) to swirl up
to be unable to stand
lit. to slap the table and stand up (idiom); fig. at the end of one's tether / unable to take it any more
Qian Qi (c. 710-780), Tang Dynasty poet
to originate
(of a group of people) to rush into action
to swarm / to rise in masses
(literary) to mushroom / to flourish
to pick up (from the ground with one's hands)
to ignite / to light / fig. to spark off (hopes, controversy, flames of revolution)
Wu Qi (440-381 BC), military leader and politician of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), author of Wuzi 吳子|吴子, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书
Wuqi county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi
to pick up
provoke, incite / stir up / arouse (attention)
Bai Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦國|秦国, the victor at 長平|长平 in 260 BC / same as 公孫起|公孙起
bulge
before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved / many twists and turns to a story / one thing after another
(cry of encouragement) / to arise / to stand up / to gain the ascendancy / Come on!
to evoke / to induce / to call to mind / to pick up with a hook
to float / to emerge
to recall / to recollect
can't avoid / can't hide from / unavoidable
to jump up suddenly / to bound up / to rise up in one bound
It's a long and intricate story, I hardly know where to start.
(slang) it's just the pits! / so unfair! / unbearable
Gongsun Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦國|秦国, the victor at 長平|长平 in 260 BC / same as Bai Qi 白起
the autumn breeze comes gently (idiom)
to surround / to encircle / to enclose / to fence in
together
to rise vigorously / a spirited start
lit. arising suddenly above the level ground (idiom); sudden emergence of prominent new feature
to lift up
to pick up
to hang up (a picture etc) / to hoist up (a flag) / (computing) to suspend (a process) / (of a system) to hang / pending (operation)
to be unable to pay / unaffordable
to be able to pay / affordable
East Pacific Rise (a mid-oceanic ridge stretching from California to Antarctica)
seething discontent (idiom); widespread popular grievances
the fire of war in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war
can't afford to play / (fig.) can't accept it when one loses
to purse / to pucker (up)

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