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HSK
defect; flaw
HSK 6
to sink into / to get caught up in / to land in (a predicament)
HSK 6
to fall into enemy hands / to be occupied / to degenerate / to submerge
thrown into prison / behind bars
birth defect
to surrender (of a fortress) / to fall (to the enemy) / subsidence (of land)
caught in (a bad situation) / to fall into (trap etc)
to be deeply in (trouble, debt etc) / deep set (eyes)
birth defect
to entrap / to frame / to plant false evidence against sb
to charge and break through enemy lines
to subside / subsidence
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
tragic flaw (Aristotle's hamartia)
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pitfall / trap / to get stuck / to sink / to cave in / to frame (false charge) / to capture (a city in battle) / to fall (to the enemy) / defect
HSK 7-9
collapse of 氣|气 (TCM)
to be trapped / to be imprisoned
to capture (a fortress, city etc); to take by force
to sink / to settle
to fall deeper and deeper (in debt, in love etc)
(geology) depression / low-lying area
pitfall / pit as animal trap
to frame / to bring false charges against
deflated
to lure into a trap
fallen into a trap
to subside / to sink / to cave in
to entrap / to set up / to frame (up) / to make false charges against
Thucydides trap (theory that war results when a dominant established power fears the rise of a rival power)
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
to fall into a trap / ensnared
to fall in / to cave in
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
pitfall / snare / trap
HSK 7-9
enemy-held territory
to be paralyzed; to come to a standstill
speech defect
to go to prison / to be imprisoned
to sink; to cave in; (of a building etc) to subside / (fig.) to get lost (in contemplation, daydreams etc)
unjust accusation / miscarriage of justice
to cave in; hollow; sunken; depressed
area of subsidence
to frame (an innocent person) / to collapse


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