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right; correct / towards; at; for / concerning; regarding / to treat (sb a certain way) / to face / (bound form) opposite; facing; matching / to match together; to adjust / to fit; to suit / to answer; to reply / to add; to pour in (a fluid) / to check; to compare / classifier: couple; pair
HSK 1
to talk (with sb) / dialogue; conversation
HSK 2
I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon / to let (sb) down; to disappoint
HSK 1
target; object / partner; boyfriend; girlfriend / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
(sitting) opposite / across (the street) / directly in front / to be face to face
HSK 2
to handle; to deal with; to tackle / to get by with; to make do / (dialect) (usu. used in the negative) to get along with (sb)
HSK 4
to withstand / to resist / to stand off / antagonism / confrontation
HSK 6
the other person; the other side; the other party
HSK 3
to contrast / contrast / ratio / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
regarding; as far as (sth) is concerned; with regard to
HSK 4
to treat / treatment
HSK 3
opponent / rival / competitor / (well-matched) adversary / match
HSK 3
to oppose / to set sth against / to be antagonistic to / antithetical / relative opposite / opposing / diametrical
HSK 5
to correspond (to); to be equivalent to; to be a counterpart to
HSK 5
(of mountains etc) to stand facing each other / (fig.) to confront each other
HSK 7-9
external / foreign / pertaining to external or foreign (affairs)
HSK 6
rhyming couplet / pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
symmetry / symmetrical
HSK 7-9
confrontation / contest / showdown
dialogue (in a movie or a play)
HSK 7-9
to play go, chess etc
HSK 7-9
to contrast / to compare / to place side by side for comparison (as parallel texts) / to check
HSK 7-9
to disagree / I can't agree with that.
not to let sb down / to treat sb fairly / be worthy of
HSK 7-9
foreign relations
to look at each other
countermeasure for dealing with a situation
HSK 7-9
opposite bank (of a body of water)
adversary / opponent
to aim at / to target / to point at / to be directed at / registration / alignment (mechanical engineering)
HSK 7-9
lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it / to take appropriate steps
to verify accounting records
foreign trade
internal / national / domestic (policy)
right or wrong? / Is it right? / OK, yes? (colloquial)
(policy etc) towards China
reserved seat; assigned seat
Correct! / Oh, that's right, ... (when one suddenly remembers sth one wanted to mention) / Oh, by the way, ...
lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom) / fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience / to cast pearls before swine / caviar to the general / to preach to deaf ears / to talk over sb's head
to fit one into the other / to bring two things into contact
suitable; to one's liking / to get along together
color contrast
(psychology) contrastive association
to serve as foil to one another
foreign policy
intercom / walkie-talkie
to one's taste / to one's liking
hedge fund
to exchange / to swap
University of International Business and Economics
pair of aces (in dominoes) / double one
to look face to face
control group
(meteorology) troposphere
intercom
dual / duality / antithesis / coupled phrases (as rhetorical device) / spouse
to join up / to dock / a joint (between components)
logarithm
able to reply quickly and fluently (idiom); having a ready answer
a profit equal to the amount one invested / (math.) involution
Tsushima Strait, between Japan and South Korea
as far as I'm concerned
symmetry (as an aesthetic quality)
it's nothing personal (idiom)
to confront / to face the enemy
enantiomer (chemistry)
(a return) equal to the capital / 100 percent profit
prawn / shrimp
duel / match / competition between paired opponents (e.g. sporting)
partner (in four person game) / family of proposed marriage partner
equal status / equal treatment / parity (under the law) / equity / reciprocity
half-and-half / 50-50 / to double
(geometry) a diagonal
the building or room opposite
antithesis (two lines of poetry matching in sense and sound) / to fight / to wage war
concentration (a pair-matching game)
hedging (finance)
pair of antithetical phrases / antithetical couplet
to align / (typography) to justify
(math.) duality
bayonet practice in pairs
antagonistic
to compare a product with (a rival product) / to benchmark against (another product)
to focus (a camera)
antipode
to sit face-to-face and drink
to confront sb with accusation / written charge in court (in former times) / to take sb to court
to confront (in court etc) / confrontation
lit. sing to accompany wine (idiom); fig. life is short, make merry while you can
running in opposite direction (buses, trains, ferries etc)
counterproposal
to reply / to answer / response / reply
to place a bet (with sb) / to take a risk (with one's time and effort etc, e.g. on a business venture)
correct diagnosis / to prescribe the right cure for an illness / to suit the medicine to the illness
in duet / answering phrase / antiphonal answer
to collide head-on
to attack (one another)
(thermodynamics) reduced temperature (used to compare fluids at different temperatures relative to their critical points)
counterpoint (in music etc) / to align / alignment
lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it / to take appropriate steps

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