| | to leave; to part (from) / (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish / (bound form) other; another; different / don't ...! / to fasten with a pin or clip / to stick in; to insert (in order to hinder movement) / (noun suffix) category (e.g. 性別｜性别, 派別｜派别) | HSK 1 |
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| | you're welcome / don't mention it / impolite / rude / blunt | HSK 1 |
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| | don't!; must not | HSK 2 |
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| | don't tell me ... / could it be that...? | HSK 3 |
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| | contrary to what one might expect / actually / contrariwise / why don't you | HSK 5 |
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| | lit. I dare not (accept the honor); fig. I don't deserve your praise / you flatter me | HSK 5 |
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| | hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1) | HSK 6 |
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| | to guard against / to be vigilant / watch you don't (slip) / Taiwan pr. [ti2 fang2] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words / You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | don't think (that) / don't imagine (that) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | don't be fooled by the fact that | HSK 7-9 |
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| | say no more / don't bring it up / drop the subject | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to rest / to stop doing sth for a period of time / to cease / (imperative) don't | |
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| | If you want to condemn sb, don't worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左傳｜左传); one can always trump up a charge against sb / Give a dog a bad name, then hang him. | |
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| | chicken stock / chicken soup / (fig.) chicken soup for the soul – i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives) | |
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| | (contraction of 不用) need not; please don't | |
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| | when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers / When matters are urgent, don't spend time choosing alternatives. | |
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| | (Internet slang) don't call on me; don't drag me in | |
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| | contraction of 勿要 / must not / please don't | |
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| | a modal particle indicating (don't mind it, ok) | |
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| | reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success | |
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| | (literary) no / don't / to not have / nobody | |
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| | extreme joy turns to sorrow (idiom); Don't celebrate too soon, things could still go wrong! | |
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| | study is like rowing upstream – if you don't keep pushing forward, you fall behind | |
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| | What you don't want done to you, don't do to others. (idiom, from the Confucian analects) / Do as you would be done by. / Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you. | |
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| | lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head) / I don't understand a word (idiom) / it's all Greek to me | |
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| | important matter that must be kept secret (idiom); don't breathe a word of it to anyone! | |
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| | to don armor | |
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| | (dialect) don't / must not / (contraction of 不 and 要) | |
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| | lit. when you drink water, think of its source (idiom); gratitude for blessings and their well-spring / Don't forget where your happiness come from. / Be grateful for all your blessings! | |
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| | lit. wind past your ear / fig. sth you don't pay much attention to / in one ear and out the other | |
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| | don't forget past events, they can guide you in future (idiom); benefit from past experience | |
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| | Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea) | |
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| | how could one dare? / I don't deserve such praise | |
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| | to praise too much / I really don't deserve so much praise | |
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| | a dandy / a fop / Don Juan / a ladies man | |
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| | think three times then go (idiom); don't act before you've thought it through carefully | |
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| | intermittent / now you see it, now you don't | |
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| | (idiom) a thing should not be attempted more than three times; don't repeat the same mistake again and again / (idiom) bad things don't happen more than three times | |
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| | to mention (e.g. "don't mention it") | |
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| | lit. warning to the following cart (idiom); don't follow the track of an overturned cart / fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor / learn from past mistake / once bitten twice shy | |
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| | don't blame the speaker, take note of his warning (idiom); an exhortation to speak one's mind without fear of reprisals, and with the expectation of being taken seriously | |
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| | keep calm, don't get excited / don't be impatient | |
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| | improbable / unlikely / will not (act, happen etc) / not able / not having learned to do sth / (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it / not at all | |
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| | lit. don't sit under the eaves (where tiles may fall from the roof) (idiom); fig. keep out of danger | |
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| | you must not / Please don't... / be sure not to / on no account (do it) | |
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| | don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom) | |
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| | a black stallion or possibly a yellow mare (idiom); don't judge by outward appearance | |
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| | contraction of 勿用 / (dialect) need not / please don't | |
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| | don't get involved / ignore it! / don't have anything to do with (him, her etc) / don't speak to | |
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| | don't use a sledgehammer on a nut / aquila non capit muscam | |
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| | Don River | |
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| | don't tell me ... / could it be that...? | |
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| | Don't forget! (literary) | |
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| | lit. don't let one's own fertile water flow into others' field / fig. keep the goodies within the family (proverb) | |
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| | (neologism c. 2017) (coll.) chill about everything (typically used to describe young people who don't buy into aspirational society) | |
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| | lit. "Why don't they eat meat?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝｜晋惠帝 when told that his people didn't have enough rice to eat) / fig. (of people from higher class etc) to be oblivious to other people's plight | |
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| | take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan) / keep what is good, discard the rest / You need to be selective when studying. / In modernizing the country, don't accept uncritically all foreign ideas. | |
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| | You're welcome / Don't mention it | |
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| | lit. Even if we don't see each other, don't give up and leave (idiom) / fig. Be sure to wait! / See you there! | |
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| | Don Quixote | |
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| | lit. a good horse doesn't turn around and graze the same patch again (idiom) / fig. once you've moved on, don't go back again (romantic relationship, job etc) / leave the past behind | |
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| | Mind your own business! / Don't interfere! | |
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| | hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom) / one just has to be patient / haste will ruin everything | |
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| | please don't take offense; don't take it personally | |
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| | don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom) | |
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| | lit. when you drink water, think of its source (idiom); gratitude for blessings and their well-spring / Don't forget where your happiness come from. / Be grateful for all your blessings! | |
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| | lit. either don't do it, or don't rest (idiom) / fig. if you do it at all, you may as well go the whole hog / in for a penny, in for a pound | |
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| | lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom) / fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on / complete ignorance | |
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| | lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise) | |
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| | don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say | |
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| | don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say | |
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| | don't act until the time is ripe (idiom) | |
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| | don't meddle in affairs that are not part of your position (Confucius) | |
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| | lit. don't worry about not knowing goods, but about comparing them (proverb) / fig. goods' (or person's) true value can only be determined through comparison | |
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| | lit. don't worry about not knowing goods, but about comparing them (proverb) / fig. goods' (or person's) true value can only be determined through comparison | |
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| | to pretend to understand when you don't | |
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| | don't fight, won't make friends (idiom); an exchange of blows may lead to friendship | |
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| | lit. don't fight, won't make friends (idiom); an exchange of blows may lead to friendship / no discord, no concord | |
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| | although I don't understand it, it seems pretty awesome (Internet slang) | |
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| | people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom) / marriages are predestined / people marry because they share common traits | |
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| | you're welcome / don't mention it / no need to stand on ceremony | |
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| | don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom) / there's more than one way to skin a cat | |
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| | you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom) / one doesn't act before one is sure to succeed | |
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| | don't mention it; not at all | |
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| | don't bother to see me out | |
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| | life is hard enough as it is; don't burst my bubble (Internet slang) | |
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| | don't blame (sb) | |
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| | rabbits don't have long tails (idiom) / its days are numbered / won't last long | |
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| | when two kingdoms are at war, they don't execute envoys (idiom) | |
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| | lit. no excessive politeness / Don't mention it! / You're welcome! / Please don't stand on ceremony. | |
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| | don't mention it / no formalities, please | |
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| | (idiom) don't say you haven't been forewarned (threat used by the PRC in international diplomacy) | |
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| | peanut gallery (esp. in online forums) / onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it / (neologism c. 2016) | |
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| | sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roof (idiom) | |
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| | to call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it / Insult me if you want, I don't care what you call me. | |
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| | to call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it / Insult me if you want, I don't care what you call me. | |
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| | (coll.) not at all (humble expression denying compliment) / don't mention it | |
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| | Heaven never bars one's way (idiom); don't despair and you will find a way through. / Never give up hope. / Never say die. | |
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