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  *跟* | 跟* | *跟
heel / to follow closely / to go with / (of a woman) to marry sb / with / compared with / to / towards / and (joining two nouns)
HSK 1
high-heeled shoes
HSK 5
the front (of) / (in) front / (in) sb's presence / just before (a date)
HSK 5
to follow
HSK 5
to catch up with / to keep pace with
HSK 7-9
to follow sb's tracks / to tail / to shadow / tracking
HSK 7-9
not able to keep up with
HSK 7-9
to follow / to follow up
(of children, parents etc) at one's side; living with one
heel tendon of mammals / Achilles tendon
to follow after / immediately afterwards
heel (part of a foot) / heel (of a sock) / counter (the part of a shoe that cups the back of one's heel) / followed by (used in describing a format, such as "filename followed by file extension")
heel
heel (of a shoe)
to follow precisely / to comply with
(coll.) while doing it; on the way through / (coll.) immediately; at once / (of a touch screen) responsive to the user's finger movements
tumble / somersault
to follow / (of a woman) to get married / (old) attendant
heel
lit. bum beetle / sb who tags along / shadow / sycophant
to feet the feet perfectly / to follow closely / hard on sb's heels
to fall head over heels / (fig.) to come a cropper
to turn a somersault
to tag along behind / to follow sb closely
(Tw) to tail (sb) (abbr. for 跟蹤監視|跟踪监视)
to turn a somersault
to fall / fig. to suffer a setback
attendant / footman (servant)
to work as footman / to do odd jobs / to understudy (an opera actor)
attendant
to go with the tide / to blindly follow the crowd / to follow the trend
to marry (of woman)
to do a somersault / to turn head over heels
somersault / fall; tumble / (fig.) setback; failure
wriggler / mosquito larva
to turn a somersault / to turn head over heels
to stand firmly / to gain a foothold / to establish oneself
to match a bet / to call (poker)
to travel in a tour group
stalker
(law) to stalk (sb)
a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)
too large or small for the feet (of shoes)
what's that have to do with it? / what's the connection?
backstrap (of a shoe)
one closely following the other
to lose track of
to document on film the course of events / to follow sb with a camera
to walk cautiously in order not to make noise


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