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HSK
open-minded / humble
HSK 5
(idiom) a false alarm; a scare that turns out to be nothing
modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong)
virtual image
to boast / to brag / boastful / exaggerative / pompous / bombastic
to play tricks / to deceive
a person who is in poor health cannot handle sth so strong as a tonic
nominal position
false; phony; sham
HSK 7-9
(coll.) all show and no substance
virtual environment
to imagine; to make up / fictitious; theoretical; hypothetical / (computing) to emulate / (computing) virtual
HSK 7-9
(linguistics) function word
false / hypocritical / artificial / sham
HSK 7-9
weak / in poor health
HSK 7-9
imaginary / illusory
HSK 7-9
false
to reserve a seat for sb (idiom)
empty formality
false friendship; hypocritical show of affection
virtual reality (Tw)
(idiom) to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength
dotted line / dashed line / (math.) imaginary line
to make up / fabrication / fictional / imaginary
HSK 7-9
fiction
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
light and airy / floating
dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality
to fritter away (one's time)
subjunctive mood (grammar)
virtual connection
looks impressive but is worthless (idiom) / not as good as it looks / a reputation with no substance
to reserve a seat / to leave a position vacant
to misreport / fraudulent report
virtual reality
virtual network
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
null hypothesis (statistics)
vanity
what is true and what is false / (to get to know) the real situation
vanity
imaginary reputation / empty fame
false reputation
tricky and hypocritical
virtual private network (VPN)
illusory; imaginary; fanciful
void / hollow / empty
(TCM) consumptive disease, chronic deficiency disorder due to impaired function of inner organs, deficiency of qi, blood, yin and yang / asthenia
to partially obscure / (of a door, gate or window) slightly open; ajar; not fully shut; unlocked / (of a jacket or shirt) unbuttoned
virtual private network (VPN)
to feign civility (idiom)
imaginary number
Akasagarbha Bodhisattva
hard to tell if it's real or sham
fabricated
modest and studious (idiom)
to waste time on worthless activities
virtual reality markup language (VRML) (computing)
nothingness
to falsely or exaggeratedly label (a product)
empty words / false words
receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom); modest and open-minded
false alarm / panic rumor / CL: 場|场
virtual machine
to miss the target (with a bullet or an arrow)
virtual circuit / VC
nihilism
false alert
to listen to the ideas of others with an open mind (idiom)
white square character ( □ ), used to represent a missing ideograph
false but apparently real
virtual particle
people who like to window-shop for unaffordable luxuries
to collapse (from dehydration or loss of blood) / heat exhaustion
empty wrist (method of painting)
to go through the motions
imaginary star (in astrology)
four-square box in which one practices writing a Chinese character
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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


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