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| | particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word ("What about ...?", "And ...?") / particle for inquiring about location ("Where is ...?") / particle signaling a pause, to emphasize the preceding words and allow the listener time to take them on board ("ok?", "are you with me?") / (at the end of a declarative sentence) particle indicating continuation of a state or action / particle indicating strong affirmation | HSK 1 |
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| | they; them (females) | HSK 1 |
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| | they; them | HSK 2 |
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| | the rest / the others / remaining / remainder / apart from them | HSK 4 |
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| | (included) in it / among them | HSK 5 |
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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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| | just a very few (idiom); tiny number / not many at all / You count them on your fingers. | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) (of two or more people) to take the same action without prior consultation; (usu. used adverbially) all (or both) of them, independently; as if by prior agreement | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to assemble (goods, passengers etc from various locations) and dispatch (them) | |
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| | both / both of them / neither | |
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| | Diaoyu Islands, located between Taiwan and Okinawa, controlled by Japan – which calls them the Senkaku Islands – but claimed by China | |
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| | to cater to sb to make them happy (esp. of one's parents) | |
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| | wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom) / person who has no family or friends to rely on | |
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| | (telecommunications) channel / (in Confucian texts) to believe in the principles of wisdom and follow them | |
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| | lacking three key attributes (or at least one of them) | |
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| | to shift (funds) / to (legitimately) take funds set aside for one purpose in order to use them for another / to embezzle / to misappropriate | |
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| | (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess who gives a potion to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life / (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess of the wind | |
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| | black / police runners, from the black clothes formerly worn by them | |
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| | (Japanese kokuji) large staple driven into two pieces of wood to hold them together / pr. kasugai | |
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| | Since they have come, we should make them comfortable (idiom). Since we're here, take it easy. / Since this is so, we should accept it. / Now we have come, let's stay and take the rough with the smooth. / If you can't do anything to prevent it, you might as well sit back and enjoy it. | |
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| | to exploit sb's point of weakness to force them to do one's bidding | |
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| | within it / among them | |
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| | to kill sb to prevent them from divulging a secret / to silence sb | |
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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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| | to frame sb (by planting sth on them) | |
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| | In order to capture, one must let loose. / to loosen the reins only to grasp them better | |
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| | to drag sb before a public meeting to denounce, humiliate and physically abuse them (esp. during the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | sex fiend / molester / sex attacker / sex demon (a spirit that enters people's souls and makes them desire sex) | |
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| | (idiom) to kill sb to prevent them from revealing sth | |
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| | lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom) / fig. to scoop up the whole lot / to capture them all in one go | |
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| | (Tw) in its entirety; all of it; all of them | |
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| | to count all of them | |
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| | in its entirety; all of it; all of them | |
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| | correct any mistakes you made, but maintain your good record if you did not make them (idiom) | |
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| | lit. when the snipe and the clam grapple with each other, the fisherman catches them both (idiom) / fig. when two sides are locked in dispute, it's often a third party that benefits | |
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| | potion given to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life (aka 孟婆汤) / magic potion; (fig.) bewitching words or actions | |
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| | (idiom) to fondly remember a person on seeing sth one associates with them | |
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| | lit. unable to distinguish eldest brother from second brother (idiom); they are all equally excellent / nothing to choose between them | |
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| | to make fertilizer by steeping organic materials in water and leaving them to decompose / fertilizer produced by this method | |
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| | lit. so numerous that one could just bend down and pick them up (idiom) / fig. extremely common; easily available | |
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| | just a very few (idiom); tiny number / just a handful / not many at all / You count them on your fingers. | |
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| | lit. to punish those before to prevent those after (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again | |
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| | lit. try to straighten out silk threads only to tangle them further (idiom) / fig. to try to help but end up making things worse | |
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| | lit. the person from Zheng 鄭|郑 who wanted to buy shoes (an allusion to an ancient story about somebody who, when buying a pair of shoes, preferred to rely on their foot measurements rather than just trying them on) (idiom) / fig. disregarding the sensible approach in favor of adherence to a fixed idea | |
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| | iron egg, a Taiwanese snack made by stewing eggs in soy sauce and air-drying them each day for a week | |
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| | to stop (sb) by calling out to them | |
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| | bone-gathering, a custom of Fujian and Taiwan in which a son recovers the bones of his deceased father from the grave and places them in an urn for permanent storage at a different location | |
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| | ancient weapon with a tip like a grappling hook, thrown at enemy combatants in order to capture them | |
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| | (Tw) to identify (talented individuals) and give them training | |
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| | to seek out discount vouchers, cashback offers etc and use them in making purchases | |
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| | to visit friends to thank them after a funeral | |
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| | "left-behind children", rural children whose parents have to make a living as migrant workers in distant urban areas, but cannot afford to keep the family with them | |
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| | to introduce sb, putting in a good word for them in advance | |
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| | If three walk together, one of them can teach me sth (Confucius) | |
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| | the ideal is to be like water (which benefits all living things and does not struggle against them) (quotation from the "Book of Dao" 道德經|道德经) | |
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| | The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom) | |
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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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| | person who is passed back and forth, with nobody willing to look after them (e.g. a child of divorced parents) / (esp.) patient who gets shuttled from hospital to hospital, each of which refuses to admit the patient for treatment | |
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| | lit. if one is fake, I shall compensate you for ten of them / fig. (of goods) 100% genuine | |
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| | to feed livestock with highly nutritional food in order to fatten them up in a short time | |
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| | to reject sb after being deeply touched by them (Internet slang) | |
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| | thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive / once you've seen one, you've seen them all | |
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| | lit. there are many swift horses, but very few who can spot them (idiom) / fig. many have talent, but few can recognize talent when they see it | |
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| | sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them | |
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| | Wu Sangui (1612-1678), Chinese general who let the Manchus into China and helped them establish the Qing Dynasty, later leading a revolt against Qing in an effort to start his own dynasty | |
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| | lit. asking guests whether or not to butcher a chicken for them (idiom) / fig. hypocritical show of affection (or hospitality) | |
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| | potion given to souls by Meng Po 孟婆 before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life | |
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| | "learn from the foreigners in order to gain command of them", idea advocated by Wei Yuan 魏源 | |
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| | where it is possible to let people off, one should spare them (idiom); anyone can make mistakes, forgive them when possible | |
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| | to praise sb in a way that does them harm (e.g. by causing them to become complacent) | |
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| | to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back | |
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| | to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back | |
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| | housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them | |
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| | differing only slightly / not much between them | |
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| | to bludgeon to death / (fig.) to defeat sb by publicly criticizing them | |
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| | making decisions without implementing them | |
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| | very close / no gap between them / continuously / unbroken / hard to separate / indistinguishable | |
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| | design of a learning environment for young children, incorporating artwork designed to appeal to them (abbr. to 環創|环创) | |
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| | to develop love for sb out of pity for them | |
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| | (slang) to reject sb (by labeling them a "nice guy") | |
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| | (dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom) / not to treat everyone equally favorably | |
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| | to treat people according to their rank and one's relationship with them (idiom) | |
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| | to acknowledge one's faults and correct them (idiom) | |
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| | rice tube pudding, a single-serve column of glutinous rice topped with a sauce and garnished (Taiwanese dish, originally prepared by stuffing rice into bamboo tubes and steaming them) | |
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| | to live with one's parents, thus bringing them happiness (idiom) | |
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| | lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain / very powerful and capable (idiom) | |
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| | "exam master", sb who takes many exams and aces all of them | |
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| | knowing sb by their reputation can't compare to meeting them in person (idiom) | |
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| | to neglect one's parents but give them a rich funeral / hypocrisy in arranging a lavish funeral after treating one's parents meanly | |
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| | when radishes are selling fast, one doesn't take the time to wash the soil off them (idiom) / fig. when business is booming, merchants tend to offer goods of inferior quality | |
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| | some people have to be pushed for them to take action | |
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| | gift given to sb when meeting them for the first time | |
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| | program of visiting Muslim households in Xinjiang to monitor them, begun in 2014 (abbr. for 訪民情、 惠民生、 聚民心|访民情、 惠民生、 聚民心) | |
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| | sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them | |
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| | to show deference to sb by obliging them (or by obliging sb associated with them) | |
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| | Cotai, portmanteau term referring to the islands of 路環|路环 (Coloane) and 氹仔 (Taipa) in Macau / the strip of reclaimed land between Coloane and Taipa / the island formed by Coloane, Taipa and the reclaimed land between them | |
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| | to bear one's own responsibilities and not pass them to others (idiom) | |
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| | lit. to be hardly worth eating, but it would still be a pity to discard it (idiom) / fig. some things have little to no value, yet one is still reluctant to part with them | |
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