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sour / tart / sick at heart / grieved / sore / aching / pedantic / impractical / to make sarcastic remarks about sb / an acid
HSK 4
yogurt
HSK 4
lit. sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom) / fig. all kinds of flavors; the joys and sorrows of life
HSK 5
sour cream
hot and sour sauce / chutney
pickle; pickled cucumber
acidity
sour grapes
pickled vegetables, especially Chinese cabbage
misery
sourdough starter
if a woman likes to eat sour during pregnancy, she will have a boy; if she likes to eat spicy, she will have a girl (idiom)
acid rain
(Tw) (Internet) troll
hot and sour shredded potato
yogurt
sour and sweet
(of muscles) to ache / sore
negative ion / acid radical
sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar
sour / acrid / (of a person) embittered
to ache
sour / acid
Chinese lantern plant (Physalis alkekengi); winter cherry; strawberry ground-cherry / creeping oxalis (Oxalis corniculata)
cranberry
(milk) to turn sour / (meat, fish) to go off
hot and sour soup / sour and spicy soup
lime (fruit)
sour date (Ziziphus jujuba var. spinosa)
disconsolate / forlorn / grievance
tamarind (Tamarindus indica) tropical tree with bean-like fruit / pickled caper
hot and sour noodles (Sichuan-origin dish made with starch-based noodles)
sour / acrid / (fig.) bitter / painful
aching and weary
preserved plum / (esp.) smoked plum; dark plum
love song
acid salt
yogurt
pH (chemistry)


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