| | branch of study / administrative section / division / field / branch / stage directions / family (taxonomy) / rules / laws / to mete out (punishment) / to levy (taxes etc) / to fine sb / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce | HSK 2 |
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| | to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc) / to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc) | HSK 2 |
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| | palace / temple / castration (as corporal punishment) / first note in pentatonic scale | HSK 6 |
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| | (idiom) to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment); (fig.) to tear apart; to utterly destroy; to brutally dismember | |
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| | to surrender oneself for execution; (fig.) to come forward to take the blame; to face punishment | |
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| | ink stick / China ink / CL: 塊|块 / corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to make heavier / to emphasize / (of an illness etc) to become more serious / to aggravate (a bad situation) / to increase (a burden, punishment etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to behead (as form of capital punishment) / to chop | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to dread punishment / afraid of being arrested for a crime | |
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| | punishment / penalty / sentence / torture / corporal punishment | |
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| | flesh lacerated from corporal punishment (idiom) | |
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| | to face the wall and ponder about one's misdeeds / to stand in the corner (punishment) / (fig.) to examine one's conscience | |
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| | lit. stocks and knives / fig. any punishment equipment / torture instrument | |
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| | to tear between chariots (as punishment) | |
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| | distinct / clear / orderly / pain / suffering / deciduous bush used in Chinese medicine (genus Vitex) / punishment cane (old) | |
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| | to punish / punishment / sanctions (incl. economic) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to reduce or waive (taxes, punishment, rent, tuition etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | removal of the kneecaps (punishment) | |
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| | the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475–221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist | |
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| | penalty / punishment / to punish | HSK 7-9 |
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| | forced labor (as punishment in criminal case) | |
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| | legal sanction / prescribed punishment / punishable by law | |
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| | sentence / penalty / punishment | |
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| | (idiom) to deserve what one gets (punishment, mishap etc) | |
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| | to accept punishment | |
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| | imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨, cutting off the nose 劓, amputation of one or both feet 刖, castration 宮|宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞, beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖, forced labor 徒, exile or banishment 流, capital punishment 死 | |
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| | torture / cruel corporal punishment | |
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| | person being executed / victim of corporal punishment / person serving a sentence | |
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| | to inflict (punishment) / to provide (training etc) / to apply (pressure etc) | |
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| | Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基 | |
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| | (idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment | |
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| | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚 / also written 陀思妥耶夫斯基 | |
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| | major punishment (law) | |
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| | guilty and deserves to be punished (idiom); entirely appropriate chastisement / the punishment fits the crime | |
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| | the lingering death / the death of a thousand cuts (old form of capital punishment) | |
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| | reward and punishment | |
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| | ancient banquet game of throwing arrows into a pot, the winner determined by the number of arrows thrown in, and the loser required to drink as punishment | |
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| | (idiom) to hack (sb) to pieces (punishment in former times) | |
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| | to tattoo the face / face tattoo / to brand (ancient punishment) | |
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| | disproportionate punishment / the punishment is harsher than the crime | |
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| | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚 | |
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| | indiscriminate punishment | |
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| | to flee to escape punishment / to abscond from justice | |
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| | (law) to exempt from punishment | |
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| | lit. to kill a chicken in front of a monkey; fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment) to frighten others | |
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| | exile (as form of punishment) | |
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| | to avoid suffering / to prevent (sth bad) / to protect against (damage) / immunity (from prosecution) / freedom (from pain, damage etc) / exempt from punishment | |
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| | to behead / capital punishment / desperate struggle / life-and-death | |
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| | to keep sth in cold storage / (fig.) to suspend a performer or sports player (as punishment) / to keep sb or sth out of sight until the right moment (e.g. a key player on a sports team) | |
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| | to arrest for punishment | |
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| | office of punishment / torture chamber (esp. unofficial) | |
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| | to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment) / to cut sth in half / to reduce sth by a dramatic margin / to terminate / to cut short | |
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| | kneecapping / to cut or smash the kneecaps as corporal punishment | |
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| | (literary) corporal punishment or execution | |
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| | death penalty; capital punishment | |
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| | corporal punishment | |
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| | lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs); to endure hardship gladly / a glutton for punishment | |
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| | cut off the flesh as punishment | |
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| | strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously | |
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| | extermination of an entire family (ancient Chinese punishment) | |
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| | to atone for one's crime / to buy freedom from punishment / redemption / atonement | |
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| | severe punishment / worst punishment / to torture | |
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| | flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law | |
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| | to flog / to cane (as punishment) | |
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| | to confess one's fault / to accept one's punishment | |
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| | xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害 / the designation for a punishment | |
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| | to seize and send (to court, to face punishment) | |
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| | crime and punishment / penalty for a crime | |
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| | to pardon / to absolve / to exempt from punishment | |
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| | to shield (a miscreant) from punishment, criticism etc / to take sb's side | |
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| | corporal punishment; to inflict physical punishment on (sb) | |
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| | corporal punishment (such as castration or amputation) | |
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| | board / plank / bamboo or birch for corporal punishment | |
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| | castration (a form of punishment during the Han period) | |
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| | refrain from going to extremes in meting out punishment / not be too hard on subject | |
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| | corporal punishment consisting of carving and inking characters on the victim's forehead | |
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| | castration (archaic punishment) | |
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| | lit. stocks and knives / fig. any punishment equipment / torture instrument | |
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| | to weight sth with lead / (of a die) loaded / to pour molten lead into the mouth (as a punishment) | |
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| | old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of 大), now called 捺 / sound made by birds (onom.) / (literary) to dismember (form of punishment) / to spread | |
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| | to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old) | |
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| | caning (corporal punishment) | |
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| | to banish (to an army post, as a punishment) | |
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| | to make a student write sth out many times, as a punishment / writing lines | |
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| | torture / corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation) | |
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| | heavenly punishment / king's punishment | |
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| | to boil; to brew (tea) / to cook by briefly stir-frying and then mixing in sauce / (old) to boil to death (judicial punishment in ancient times) | |
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| | lit. to bring a bramble and ask for punishment (idiom) / fig. to offer sb a humble apology | |
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| | custody and reeducation (administrative punishment for prostitutes) | |
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| | to sink sb to the bottom of a pond (a kind of private punishment, especially for unfaithful wives) | |
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| | to let sb off (punishment, taxation etc) / to reprieve sb | |
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| | whipping with bamboo strips (as corporal punishment) | |
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| | to commit suicide to escape punishment | |
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| | to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old) | |
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| | to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment) | |
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| | to tattoo the face (punishment in ancient times) | |
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| | cutting off the ears as punishment | |
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| | to amputate one or both feet (punishment in imperial China) (one of the five mutilating punishments 五刑) | |
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| | to be forced to grind grain as a punishment (old) | |
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