| | to break / to snap / to cut off / to give up or abstain from sth / to judge / (usu. used in the negative) absolutely / definitely / decidedly | HSK 3 |
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| | to conclude / to determine / to come to a judgment | HSK 7-9 |
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| | certainly | |
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| | to break / to sever / to turn off (electric switch) | |
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| | to cut off access to the Internet; to shut down the Internet | |
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| | fracture / rupture / to break apart | HSK 7-9 |
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| | intermittent | |
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| | to experience a power outage; to have a power failure | |
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| | a kite that is lost after its string breaks (metaphor for sb one never hears from anymore) | |
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| | intermittent / off and on / discontinuous / stop-go / stammering / disjointed / inarticulate | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to assert / assertion | |
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| | steep cliff / crag / precipice | |
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| | to sever; to break off | |
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| | to default on a mortgage / to stop supplying sth | |
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| | to pause at appropriate points in reading aloud unpunctuated writing / to punctuate | |
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| | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins | |
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| | computed tomography | |
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| | to stop breathing / to breathe one's last / to die / to cut the gas supply | |
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| | dead-end road; (fig.) impasse | |
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| | to run out of (stock) | |
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| | (coll.) to suffer an alcohol-induced blackout / to be unable to recall what one did while drunk | |
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| | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins | |
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| | (of a fall in price, temperature etc) steep; precipitous | |
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| | fault zone (geology) | |
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| | Brokeback Mountain, 2005 English-language film by Ang Lee 李安 | |
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| | to die without progeny / (offensive) may you die childless / may you be the last of your family line | |
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| | circuit breaker | |
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| | (sports) to steal / to intercept the ball | |
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| | computed tomography | |
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| | (of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break / (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued / (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected / cut off | |
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| | heartbroken / to break one's heart | |
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| | to fast / hunger strike | |
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| | to wean; to be weaned / (TCM) to use medication to stop lactation | |
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| | (zoology) (of a lizard etc) to shed its tail; to autotomize its tail / (animal husbandry) to cut the tail short; to dock the tail | |
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| | broken leg | |
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| | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins | |
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| | sold out / to be out of stock | |
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| | annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda) | |
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| | (fashion retailing) available only in a limited range of less popular sizes | |
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| | to end a relationship / to break off diplomatic ties | |
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| | to judge a case | |
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| | the tiles are broken, the walls dilapidated | |
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| | (neologism c. 2012) decluttering; minimalism (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 断捨離 "danshari", lit. "forgoing, discarding and letting go") | |
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| | to forfeit (future profit, one's life etc) / ruined | |
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| | periodization (of history) | |
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| | geological fault line | |
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| | to run out of food | |
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| | to pass judgment on a legal case | |
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| | homosexual (a reference to Brokeback Mountain 斷背山｜断背山, a 2005 movie about a same-sex relationship) | |
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| | line break (computing) | |
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| | to carry out resolutely | |
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| | fault (geology) (CL: 道) / (fig.) gap; rupture (in the transmission of some skill) / (tomography) cross-sectional | |
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| | CT scan (computed tomography scan) | |
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| | brief commentary | |
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| | annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda) | |
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| | guillotine / scaffold | |
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| | resolute / definitive / categorically / absolutely | |
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| | widowed / lit. broken string, cf 琴瑟 qin and se, two instruments epitomizing marital harmony | |
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| | to be unable to continue / to come to a dead end (idiom) | |
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| | king cobra or ghost chili (Naga jolokia) | |
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| | to wean | |
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| | (of food) to be cooked just until no longer raw | |
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| | bolt cutter | |
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| | The Broken Bridge (at West Lake in Hangzhou) | |
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| | (idiom) to quote out of context | |
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| | lit. cut sleeve (idiom); fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書｜汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve. | |
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| | to go without meals (due to poverty or scarcity) | |
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| | fragment / piece / (of a film) to break in the middle of viewing | |
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| | (computing) breakpoint | |
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| | rupture strength / breaking strength | |
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| | conclusion / judgment / verdict | |
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| | modulus rupture | |
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| | to run dry (of river) | |
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