| | original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course | HSK 3 |
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| | to keep / to retain / to have reservations (about sth) / to hold back (from saying sth) / to put aside for later | HSK 3 |
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| | Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage / CL: 條｜条, 本, 句 | HSK 5 |
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| | saying / famous remark | HSK 7-9 |
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| | common saying / proverb | HSK 7-9 |
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| | common saying / proverb / colloquial speech | HSK 7-9 |
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| | clearly and easy to see (idiom); obviously / clearly / it goes without saying | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (saying) to be very scared and on edge | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to leave without saying good-bye | HSK 7-9 |
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| | needless to say; it goes without saying | HSK 7-9 |
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| | famous saying / celebrated phrase | |
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| | it goes without saying; it is self-evident | |
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| | lit. fluently saying all one wants (idiom); to preach freely on one's favorite topic / to hold forth to one's heart's content | |
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| | anapodoton (a saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part) | |
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| | to say sth without meaning it (idiom); to speak tongue in cheek / saying one thing but meaning sth different | |
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| | Zen saying repeated as cant / (fig.) catchphrase; mantra; favorite expression; stock phrase | |
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| | folk saying / proverb | |
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| | to keep on saying (idiom); to repeat over and over again | |
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| | heart and mouth at variance (idiom); keeping one's real intentions to oneself / saying one thing but meaning sth different | |
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| | common saying / idiom | |
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| | farmers' saying | |
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| | outside appearance and inner reality differ (idiom); not what it seems / saying one thing but meaning sth different | |
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| | an old saying | |
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| | lit. (when a person attains enlightenment and immortality), even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. (when somebody attains a position of power and influence), their relatives and friends also benefit / (2nd half of the saying 一人得道， 雞犬升天｜一人得道， 鸡犬升天) | |
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| | common saying | |
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| | needless to say / it goes without saying | |
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| | wise saying; words of wisdom | |
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| | (idiom) not saying anything further; not raising any objection; without demur | |
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| | to hold back from saying precisely what is on one's mind | |
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| | ancient proverb / old saying | |
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| | common saying / proverb | |
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| | as the saying goes... | |
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| | life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations) / Physical effort is vital for our bodies to function (Aristotle). / Life derives from physical exercise. | |
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| | common saying / folk proverb | |
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| | lit. (may you) have abundance year after year / (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year) | |
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| | as they say, ... / as the saying goes, ... | |
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| | needless to say; it goes without saying | |
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| | it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平｜邓小平 in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity) | |
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| | goes without saying; obvious; self-evident | |
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| | lit. (may the) five blessings descend upon this home (namely: longevity, wealth, health, virtue, and a natural death) / (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year) | |
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| | there is no harm in saying what one thinks (idiom) | |
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| | common sayings (idiom); widely circulated proverbs | |
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| | if revenge breeds revenge, will there ever be an end to it? (Buddhist saying) | |
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| | ice or coals, whether hot or cold goes without saying (idiom); fig. sincerity is not expressed in words | |
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| | lit. Cheng Yaojin ambushes the enemy (saying) / fig. sb shows up unexpectedly and disrupts the plan / sb whose presence is regarded as irksome | |
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| | to turn one's head; to turn around / (fig.) to return (to a previous point); to come back (to what one was saying before) / (fig.) to look back (in time); to reflect on the past | |
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| | The School Sayings of Confucius, a supplement to the Analects / abbr. to 家語｜家语 | |
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| | The School Sayings of Confucius (abbr. for 孔子家語｜孔子家语) | |
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| | an occasional display of histrionics can add a playful element to a relationship, but overdoing it can lead to a breakup (admonishment derived from the saying 小酌怡情， 大酌傷身｜小酌怡情， 大酌伤身) | |
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| | as the saying goes; as they say... | |
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| | historical or literary anecdote that gives rise to a saying | |
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| | to keep saying (sth) over and over | |
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| | florid but insubstantial remarks / misleading way of saying sth | |
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| | (saying) people don't get up early unless there is some benefit in doing so / won't lift a finger unless there's something in it for oneself | |
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| | the left is for males, the right is for females (traditional saying) | |
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| | saying everything / to speak out fully | |
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| | to talk nonsense (idiom); saying whatever comes into his head | |
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| | to talk nonsense (idiom); saying whatever comes into his head | |
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| | (idiom) needless to say / it goes without saying | |
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| | to be on the verge of saying what is on one's mind | |
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| | lit. the body is the revolution's capital / fig. good health is a prerequisite for work (Mao Zedong's saying) | |
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| | that goes without saying | |
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| | common saying / folk proverb | |
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