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dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality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


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