| | to eat; to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate; to destroy / to absorb / to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc) | HSK 1 |
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| | to have a meal / to eat / to make a living | HSK 1 |
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| | to be startled / to be shocked / to be amazed | HSK 4 |
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| | to entail strenuous effort / to toil at a task / strenuous / laborious / strain | HSK 5 |
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| | unable to get anything to eat / to miss a meal | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to eat, drink, play and be merry (idiom) / fig. to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to bear hardships | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to suffer losses / to come to grief / to lose out / to get the worst of it / to be at a disadvantage / unfortunately | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to eat without working (idiom) / to take one's pay and not care about the rest | |
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| | one cannot achieve glory and wealth without having been through trials and tribulations (proverb) / no pain, no gain | |
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| | (onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc) / sound of stammering | |
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| | (coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing | |
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| | popular / in demand / well regarded | |
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| | food and lodging / to stay (at some place) and eat meals (there) | |
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| | to catch on cloth (e.g. of a zip fastener) | |
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| | way of eating / how something is eaten / how a dish is prepared / the way a dish is to be cooked | |
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| | (video games) PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) / battle royale game / last-man-standing game / to play PUBG (or similar game) / to win at PUBG (or similar game) | |
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| | to eat (of bird or animal) / to feed | |
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| | food / edibles | |
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| | drinking water / to obtain water (for daily needs) / to absorb water / draft (of ship) | |
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| | to take medicine | |
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| | Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes. | |
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| | lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom) / not content with what one already has / (of men, typically) to have the wandering eye | |
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| | to feel jealous (esp. because of a rival in love or affection) | |
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| | to suck the breast (for milk) | |
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| | to eat and drink / food and drink | |
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| | to be sick of eating (sth); to be tired of eating (sth) | |
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| | food and clothing | |
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| | to be unable to tolerate or endure / to find sth difficult to manage | |
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| | (neologism c. 2016) (slang) to watch an entertaining spectacle from the sidelines and-or engage in gossip about it | |
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| | lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom) / fig. you'll have to take the consequences | |
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| | to abstain from eating meat / to be a vegetarian | |
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| | in short supply / dire / tense / critical / hard-pressed / important | |
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| | all one's strength | |
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| | to be forced to suffer in silence / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering | |
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| | hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom) | |
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| | to lead an idle life; to be a loafer | |
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| | (coll.) to serve time in prison; (Tw) (sarcastic) to live off the prison system (getting free meals) | |
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| | to be able to endure (exertion, fatigue etc) / to be able to afford | |
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| | to work against the interests of sb one derives support from / to double-cross one's employer / to bite the hand that feeds you | |
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| | to be a guest at a dinner party / to be wined and dined (as a bribe) | |
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| | to be unable to bear or support | |
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| | to be unsure about a matter / to be uncertain / to be unable to make sense of sth | |
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| | be unpopular / won't work | |
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| | to be unaccustomed to certain food; to not be keen on certain food | |
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| | to eat up / to consume | |
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| | chowhound / foodie / a good-for-nothing | |
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| | to finish eating | |
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| | (coll.) food | |
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| | to eat one's fill | |
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| | to be able to bear / to be able to support | |
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| | (coll.) to suffer a humiliation | |
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| | to graze; to eat grass | |
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| | mukbang, genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience | |
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| | exploitative / oppressive | |
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| | (neologism c. 2019) (coll.) to gather dust | |
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| | not be accustomed to eating sth / not be used to certain food | |
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| | (neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items) | |
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| | to attend a banquet (funeral, wedding etc) / (neologism c. 2020) (slang) (jocular) lit. to attend sb's funeral banquet (used to imply that things are going to go badly for sb) | |
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| | sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them | |
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| | to be jealous | |
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| | penetration of a cutting tool | |
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| | (slang) unattractive; ugly (derived from near homophone 醜｜丑) | |
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| | to eat without paying / to freeload | |
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| | Pac-Man (computer game) | |
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| | lit. to eat from government coffers / to serve as a government employee / to live off government money | |
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| | (Tw) all-you-can-eat (food) / (fig.) unlimited usage (digital services etc) | |
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| | lit. bread previously chewed by someone has no flavor (idiom) / fig. there's no joy in discovering something if someone else got there first | |
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| | to be given special treatment / to be treated in a favored way | |
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| | to receive a kickback; to draw a commission | |
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| | to live off a woman | |
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| | not feel like eating / be unable to eat any more | |
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| | to take liberties with (a woman) / to tease with sexual innuendo / to sexually harass / to take advantage of sb | |
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| | lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom) / amenable to coaxing but not coercion | |
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| | to take advantage of others' misfortune (idiom) | |
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| | arduous and thankless task (idiom); strenuous and unrewarding | |
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| | slot machine | |
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| | dinner invitations, grabbing, obstructing and demanding bribes / all kinds of abuse of power | |
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| | (idiom) to devour (food) / (idiom) to shamelessly take advantage; to ruthlessly exploit | |
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| | to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only | |
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| | ruthless / vicious and greedy | |
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| | (Tw) (of the police) to bury a crime (i.e. conceal the existence of a criminal case in order to improve crime-solving statistics or in return for a bribe etc) | |
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| | to dine and dash / to leave without paying | |
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| | eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw) | |
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| | (fig.) to score 0 (on a test, in competition etc) | |
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| | lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom) / fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted | |
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| | to cost one dearly / to end disastrously / to pay bitterly | |
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| | peanut gallery (esp. in online forums) / onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it / (neologism c. 2016) | |
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| | to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep / (fig.) the ordinary daily routine | |
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| | lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom) / fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance | |
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| | (lit.) to have taken the wrong medicine / (fig.) (of one's behavior etc) different than usual / abnormal | |
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| | to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling) | |
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| | all one's strength | |
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| | Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it. (idiom) | |
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| | to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload | |
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| | to be refused entrance; to find the door closed | |
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