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HSK
open-minded / humble
HSK 5
a person who is in poor health cannot handle sth so strong as a tonic
false alert
virtual reality
false; phony; sham
HSK 7-9
light and airy / floating
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emptiness / void / abstract theory or guiding principles / empty or unoccupied / diffident or timid / false / humble or modest / (of health) weak / virtual / in vain
HSK 7-9
what is true and what is false / (to get to know) the real situation
false / hypocritical / artificial / sham
HSK 7-9
to make up / fabrication / fictional / imaginary
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength
looks impressive but is worthless (idiom) / not as good as it looks / a reputation with no substance
nothingness
(coll.) all show and no substance
nominal position
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
virtual environment
(linguistics) function word
to boast / to brag / boastful / exaggerative / pompous / bombastic
void / hollow / empty
to imagine; to make up / fictitious; theoretical; hypothetical / (computing) to emulate / (computing) virtual
HSK 7-9
to feign civility (idiom)
imaginary / illusory
HSK 7-9
fabricated
subjunctive mood (grammar)
fiction
to miss the target (with a bullet or an arrow)
tricky and hypocritical
virtual private network (VPN)
dotted line / dashed line / (math.) imaginary line
vanity
false alarm / panic rumor / CL: 場|场
virtual connection
to misreport / fraudulent report
modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong)
receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom); modest and open-minded
virtual private network (VPN)
weak / in poor health
HSK 7-9
to reserve a seat / to leave a position vacant
virtual image
vanity
one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春 each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁
to collapse (from dehydration or loss of blood) / heat exhaustion
false
imaginary reputation / empty fame
imaginary number
empty wrist (method of painting)
hard to tell if it's real or sham
nihilism
Akasagarbha Bodhisattva
false friendship; hypocritical show of affection
(TCM) consumptive disease, chronic deficiency disorder due to impaired function of inner organs, deficiency of qi, blood, yin and yang / asthenia
people who like to window-shop for unaffordable luxuries
empty formality
virtual network
to listen to the ideas of others with an open mind (idiom)
to play tricks / to deceive
to waste time on worthless activities
virtual circuit / VC
four-square box in which one practices writing a Chinese character
to fritter away (one's time)
to falsely or exaggeratedly label (a product)
modest and studious (idiom)
to go through the motions
virtual reality markup language (VRML) (computing)
dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality
virtual reality (Tw)
white square character ( □ ), used to represent a missing ideograph
null hypothesis (statistics)
illusory; imaginary; fanciful
false reputation
empty words / false words
to partially obscure / (of a door, gate or window) slightly open; ajar; not fully shut; unlocked / (of a jacket or shirt) unbuttoned
virtual machine
false but apparently real
virtual particle
to reserve a seat for sb (idiom)
imaginary star (in astrology)


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