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HSK
serialized drama / dramatic series / show in parts
HSK 3
promptly; at once
HSK 3
continuous / in a row / serial / consecutive
HSK 3
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  *连* | 连* | *连
to link / to join / to connect / continuously / in succession / including / (used with , etc) even / company (military)
HSK 3
to interlock / to be linked / chain (store etc)
HSK 7-9
to link; to join; to connect
HSK 5
two trees that grow together as one / fig. conjugal union
prolonged spell of rainy weather
(idiom) continuous; unending
to put together / linking / successive / a cluster
(music) tuplet
both principal and interest / capital plus profit
Liannan Yao Autonomous County, in Qingyuan City 清遠市|清远市, Guangdong
Lien Chan (1936-), Taiwanese politician, former vice-president and chairman of Guomintang
that very night / through the night / for several nights in a row
HSK 7-9
(idiom) stumbling and crawling; scrambling; frantically trying to escape
HSK 7-9
pattern matching (puzzle game) / matching (type of test question in which presented items are to be paired up)
one after the other / a succession of / a series of
continuous / unbroken / uninterrupted / extending forever into the distance (of mountain range, river etc)
HSK 7-9
fighting and winning a series of battles (idiom); ever victorious
chain store
consecutive defeats / to lose several times in a row
to continue in (a political) office / to serve for another term of office
HSK 7-9
connector
hooded sweatshirt / hoodie
to link up (disparate elements) / coherent (narrative, argument etc)
ligase
Horizontal Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
day after day / for several days running
successive years / over many years
continuous function
consecutive serial numbers / chain (of supermarkets, hotels etc) / hyphen
conjunction
hyphen
to write without lifting one's pen from the paper / (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces)
Lianyungang, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省
chain
continuous casting (metallurgy)
chain store
HSK 7-9
guilt by association
the same night / that very night / successive nights
Lian county in Guangdong
husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship)
one-piece swimsuit
(of two people in different locations) to sing or otherwise perform together using communications technology
to link / to peg (currency) / gang (gears) / continuously / serial verb construction
repeatedly
linking verb
forming a continuous sheet / continuous / contiguous / closely grouped
serialized / published as a serial (in a newspaper)
(physics) chain reaction / (idiom) chain reaction; series of events each caused by the previous one
to write without lifting one's pen from the paper / (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces)
repeatedly (say something)
to combine / to join / to unite / alliance / same as 聯合|联合
conjunction
to cosign / to countersign
to link / to connect
continuous / unceasing
to bear joint responsibility for sth / joint liability (law)
conjoined twins
communicating vessels (in scientific experiment)
barrage of gunfire (often used as a metaphor for rapid speech)
electrical lead; connecting line / (Tw) to connect (to a network, device etc); to go online; connection / (congressional) caucus
(math.) the continuum hypothesis
continuity
pushing and pulling (idiom)
coordinated sequence of strategic moves
renga
Forsythia
mittens
to connect to
to implicate; to get (sb) into trouble / also pr. [lian2lei3] or [lian2lei4]
to use (two words etc) together / to use (sth) continuously
liaison (in phonetics)
chop / rib meat
(old) to rank first in the imperial examinations at the provincial capital, the national capital and the palace successively / (sports etc) to achieve three successes in a row (three matches in a row, three goals in a match etc)
to batter / combo (hit) (gaming) / (volleyball, table tennis etc) double hit / double contact
tone sandhi
structured note (finance)
to cajole / to sweet talk sb into doing sth
Liancheng, a county in Longyan City 龍巖市|龙岩市, Fujian
Lianzhou, a county-level city in Qingyuan City 清遠市|清远市, Guangdong
concerted action / to collude (in dishonesty)
lianhuanhua (graphic novel)
TV series
lit. reins together and carriages level (idiom); keeping exactly abreast of one another / running neck and neck
conjoined twins / Siamese twins
one after the other / in succession (idiom)
reaching the sky / for days on end / incessantly
successive offenses / serial crime
mechanics of a continuous medium / fluid mechanics
repeatedly / again and again
tuplet (music) / sandhi (phonetics)

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