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| | shortcoming / defect / fault / one's weak points | HSK 3 |
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| | to join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points / to nail / to pin / to staple / to sew on | HSK 7-9 |
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| | outline / essential points | HSK 7-9 |
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| | personal strength / one's special ability or strong points | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (of diverse emotions) to occur simultaneously; to intermingle / common ground; points of commonality; overlap; connection / interaction; dealings / (math.) (set theory) intersection | HSK 7-9 |
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| | virtually the same / differing only on small points | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bonus point; extra credit / to award bonus points; to earn extra points | |
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| | to deduct marks (when grading school work) / to have marks deducted / penalty points / to lose points for a penalty or error | |
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| | direction / points of the compass / bearing / position / azimuth | |
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| | main points of a case / brief / summary | |
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| | warp and woof / longitude and latitude / main points | |
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| | lit. everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom) / fig. inauspicious; everything points to disaster | |
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| | righteousness / virtuous cause / a woman's marriage / main points of a piece of writing | |
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| | overall score / total points | |
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| | to count and check / to tally / points (collected in some bonus scheme etc) | |
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| | absolutely true (idiom) / manifold / true from many points of view | |
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| | integral (calculus) / accumulated points (in sports, at school etc) / total credits earned by student / bonus points in a benefit scheme | |
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| | one divides into two / to be two-sided / there are two sides to everything / to see both sb's good points and shortcomings (idiom) | |
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| | lit. use others' strengths to make up for one's weak points (idiom from Mencius) / to use this in place of that / what you lose on the swings, you win on the roundabouts | |
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| | the eight points of the compass / all directions | |
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| | to fail to grasp the main points | |
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| | abstract / gist / main points | |
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| | to pause at appropriate points in reading aloud unpunctuated writing / to punctuate | |
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| | to concentrate on the main points (idiom); to bring out the essentials | |
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| | (idiom) stay clear of the enemy's main force and strike at his weak points | |
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| | the gist (of a text or argument) / the main points | |
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| | the main points | |
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| | 3 annual hunting bouts / 3 qi points | |
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| | (idiom) to highlight sb's good points but omit to mention their faults | |
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| | to point out mistakes or weak points for correction / to comment / criticism | |
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| | to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation) / to see through to the nub | |
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| | to share a card with sb (e.g. share a loyalty card to accumulate points and split the benefits) | |
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| | to deduct points; to lose points | |
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| | acupuncture point (any point on any meridian) / category of 12 specific acupuncture points near the wrist or ankle, each lying on a different meridian (one of five categories collectively termed 五輸穴|五输穴) | |
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| | variant of 弦 / bow string / string of musical instrument / watch spring / chord (straight line joining two points on a curve) / hypotenuse | |
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| | high points (of a document) / resume | |
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| | to concede points (in a game) | |
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| | lit. for some things a foot may be too short, and for the other an inch will suffice (proverb) / fig. everyone has their strong and weak points / everything has its advantages and disadvantages | |
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| | lit. to strangle the front and press the back (idiom) / fig. to occupy all key points (military) | |
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| | the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention, a military doctrine issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong for the Red Army, which included a number of injunctions demanding high standards of behavior and respect for civilians during wartime | |
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| | the eight influential points (acupuncture) | |
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| | "eight wind points", name of a set of acupuncture points (EX-LE-10), four on each foot | |
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| | points gained by making a good impression / kudos / brownie points | |
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| | to concentrate on trivial points while neglecting the main problem (idiom) | |
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| | to deduct (points etc) | |
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| | to grab sb by the pigtail / to seize on weak points / to exploit the opponent's shortcomings | |
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| | to grab sb by the queue (i.e. hair) / to seize on weak points / to exploit the opponent's shortcomings | |
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| | to haggle over every ounce (idiom) / to to fuss over minor points / to be particular about sth | |
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| | meeting points of qi (in Chinese medicine) | |
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| | (gaming) action points (points required to complete an action) / (Tw) action level (the level of concentration of a harmful substance at which remedial action is considered necessary) | |
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| | lit. to look for holes, and observe gaps (idiom) / fig. to search out one's opponent's weak points / to look for the Achilles' heel | |
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| | Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom) / to each his good points | |
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