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HSK
serialized drama / dramatic series / show in parts
HSK 3
promptly; at once
HSK 3
continuous / in a row / serial / consecutive
HSK 3
a succession of / a series of
HSK 7-9
in a row / in succession / running
HSK 7-9
on end / in a row / in succession
HSK 5
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  *连* | 连* | *连
to link / to join / to connect / continuously / in succession / including / (used with , etc) even / company (military)
HSK 3
to interlock / to be linked / chain (store etc)
HSK 7-9
to link; to join; to connect
HSK 5
two trees that grow together as one / fig. conjugal union
prolonged spell of rainy weather
(idiom) continuous; unending
Vertical and Horizontal Alliance, opposing stratagems devised by the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
Dalian University of Technology
to put together / linking / successive / a cluster
Chinese rings, a brainteaser toy consisting of nine rings interlocked on a looped handle, the objective being to remove the rings from the handle
(music) tuplet
(idiom) one after another; in quick succession
HSK 7-9
both principal and interest / capital plus profit
Liannan Yao Autonomous County, in Qingyuan City 清遠市|清远市, Guangdong
Lien Chan (1936-), Taiwanese politician, former vice-president and chairman of Guomintang
to connect directly to
discontinuous; discrete
(idiom) in unbroken succession; continuous
Jet Li (1963–), Chinese martial artist, actor and film director
that very night / through the night / for several nights in a row
HSK 7-9
to be linked together / to be involved with / to collude / interconnection / involvement / collusion
(idiom) stumbling and crawling; scrambling; frantically trying to escape
HSK 7-9
Dalian University of Foreign Languages
pattern matching (puzzle game) / matching (type of test question in which presented items are to be paired up)
to whine on for days (idiom) / to endlessly grumble complaints / incessant whining
one after the other / a succession of / a series of
continuous / unbroken / uninterrupted / extending forever into the distance (of mountain range, river etc)
HSK 7-9
fighting and winning a series of battles (idiom); ever victorious
chain store
consecutive defeats / to lose several times in a row
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
to continue in (a political) office / to serve for another term of office
HSK 7-9
connector
to tie the knot (idiom) / to get married
Dalian, sub-provincial city in Liaoning Province 遼寧省|辽宁省
to relate closely / closely related
hooded sweatshirt / hoodie
long-winded empty talk
to link up (disparate elements) / coherent (narrative, argument etc)
to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom) / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering / sometimes written 啞子吃黃連有苦說不出|哑子吃黄连有苦说不出
to adhere / to stick together
adhesion / to adhere / to cohere / to stick
ligase
to link / to join / link / connection
HSK 7-9
lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another
interconnection
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends.
Horizontal Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
day after day / for several days running
cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war
successive years / over many years
seamless connection
continuous / uninterrupted
continuous function
consecutive serial numbers / chain (of supermarkets, hotels etc) / hyphen
conjunction
connection-oriented
hat-trick (sports)
invaluable / priceless
In the sky to be two birds flying wing to wing, on earth to be two trees with branches intertwined / wishing for conjugal bliss
Qilian County in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海北藏族自治州, Qinghai
hyphen
to write without lifting one's pen from the paper / (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces)
Lianyungang, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省
chain
continuous casting (metallurgy)
chain store
HSK 7-9
guilt by association
the same night / that very night / successive nights
Lian county in Guangdong
husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship)
one-piece swimsuit
illogical
interlinked
Yunlian county in Yibin 宜賓|宜宾, Sichuan
(of two people in different locations) to sing or otherwise perform together using communications technology
to bridge over / (linguistics) colligation
to implicate / implicated / to link together
Qilian County in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海北藏族自治州, Qinghai
absolutely continuous (math.)
to link / to peg (currency) / gang (gears) / continuously / serial verb construction
repeatedly
linking verb
nuclear chain reaction
Qilian Mountains (formerly Richthofen Range), dividing Qinghai and Gansu provinces
(Tw) hyperlink
forming a continuous sheet / continuous / contiguous / closely grouped
Erlian Basin in Inner Mongolia

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