| | to add oil; to top up with gas; to refuel / to accelerate; to step on the gas / (fig.) to make an extra effort; to cheer sb on | HSK 2 |
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| | level / grade / rank / step (of stairs) / CL: 個|个 / classifier: step, level | HSK 2 |
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| | to go a step further / (develop, understand, improve etc) more; further | HSK 3 |
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| | a step / a pace / walk / march / stages in a process / situation | HSK 3 |
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| | maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 4 |
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| | steps / flight of steps / step (over obstacle) / fig. way out of an embarrassing situation / bench (geology) | HSK 4 |
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| | to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old) | HSK 4 |
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| | progressively / step by step | HSK 4 |
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| | to shun / to avoid (sb) / to skirt / to evade (an issue) / to step back / to withdraw / to recuse (a judge etc) | HSK 5 |
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| | footstep / step | HSK 5 |
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| | to tread / to stamp / to step on / to press a pedal / to investigate on the spot | HSK 6 |
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| | to appear personally / to step in / to step forth / to show up | HSK 6 |
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| | to step across / to stride over / to straddle / to span | HSK 6 |
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| | to step on / to tread / to stamp / to press a pedal / to pedal (a bike) / (online) to downvote | HSK 6 |
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| | procedure / step | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in sequence, step by step (idiom); to make steady progress incrementally | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to take a step / to stride | HSK 7-9 |
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| | flight of steps / (fig.) stepping stone; way to reach the goal of | HSK 7-9 |
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| | pace / (measured) step / march | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to step into / to enter | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to step across / step over | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to step in / to stride forward / to forge ahead | HSK 7-9 |
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| | synchronous / to synchronize / to keep step with | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to step on; to tread on / to put on; to wear (shoes, trousers etc) / (slang) to dump (sb) / Taiwan pr. [deng4] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to intensify / to speed up / to step up | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hand and foot / movement of limbs / action / trick / step in a procedure (CL: 道) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to set foot on / to step on or into | HSK 7-9 |
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| | railtrack connection / to integrate into sth / to dock / to connect / to be in step with / to bring into line with / to align | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to go off the stage / to fall from position of prestige / to step down (from office etc) / to disentangle oneself / to get off the hook | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the next step | |
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| | to stride toward (success) / to march toward / to take a step toward | |
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| | step / pace | |
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| | to advance; to step forward | |
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| | to put the last hand to (a book, a film etc) / to finalize / to kill-green (a step in the processing of tea leaves) | |
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| | quick step | |
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| | to pass / to step over / to creep / to twine round | |
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| | to take a (striding) step | |
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| | to step down gracefully (humble expression) / to concede defeat / to play second fiddle | |
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| | lit. a brick as a door knocker (idiom); fig. a temporary expedient / to use sb as a stepping stone to fortune | |
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| | stride / to step (on the spot) / to mark time / at a standstill | |
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| | in time with (i.e. same rhythm) / to keep in step with / fig. to cooperate | |
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| | to lose one's footing / to slip / to take a wrong step in life | |
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| | to reduce the pressure (of a fluid) / to lower one's blood pressure / to lower (or step down) the voltage | |
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| | to move (sth) aside / to step aside / to move over (when sitting on a bench) / to shift (one's gaze) | |
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| | gait / marching order / step / pace | |
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| | to get out of the way / to step aside | |
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| | by stages / staggered / step by step / in installments | |
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| | to be off the beat / to sound awful (of singing) / (fig.) to wander off the topic / (diving) to step toward the end of the board / approach | |
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| | shoe / to step | |
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| | rank or step / stairs | |
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| | to walk / to step / pace / traveling (walking with the ball, a foul in basketball) | |
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| | a step up / to rise to the next level | |
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| | goose-step (for military parades) | |
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| | stepping stone / fig. person used to advance one's career | |
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| | to step forward / to walk | |
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| | to step into the new year / New Year | |
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| | progress step by step / gradual progress / to move forward (slowly) | |
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| | out of step with current thinking / outmoded / inappropriate for the occasion | |
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| | to advance gradually and entrench oneself at every step / to consolidate at every step | |
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| | step by step / at every step | |
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| | to take a step; to step forward | |
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| | bow-and-arrow step (dance step) | |
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| | stepped fields / terracing | |
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| | to be unable to move a single step | |
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| | stepper motor | |
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| | to drive in reverse / fig. to take a backward step / retrogressive / trying to turn the clock back | |
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| | one step, one footprint (idiom); steady progress / reliable | |
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| | to step back | |
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| | to take a wrong step in life (idiom) / to go astray | |
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| | one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades / advancing wave upon wave | |
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| | (dialect) to step aside; Get out of the way! | |
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| | dare not go one step beyond the prescribed limit | |
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| | plan of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure / makeshift stratagem / interim step | |
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| | step with feet splayed outwards | |
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| | to run off the track / to step out of line / to overstep the bounds of propriety | |
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| | to go up or down stairs step by step | |
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| | to wade across the river, feeling for footholds as one goes (idiom) / to advance cautiously, step by step / to feel one's way forward | |
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| | unable to move a single step (idiom) / to be in an (extremely) difficult situation | |
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| | numerical answer (to a question in math.) / (Tw) (of troops) to shout numbers or phrases in unison (to keep in step or maintain morale) | |
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| | to walk in someone's steps / to follow in someone's footsteps (literary) / a step (literary) | |
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| | the first step is the hardest (idiom) | |
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| | to trample / to step / to walk on the ball of the foot | |
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| | to set foot in / to step into / to become involved for the first time | |
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| | to step forward bravely | |
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| | stone step | |
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| | step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍 | |
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| | lit. like stepping on a tiger's tail or spring ice (idiom) / fig. extremely dangerous situation | |
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| | to step on | |
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| | striding forward with head high (idiom); to walk with spirited and vigorous step / to strut | |
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| | to step / walk reverently | |
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| | stepping-stone to greater power or higher rank | |
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| | step across | |
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| | cross stream by stepping on stones | |
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| | to climb step by step / to rise steadily / on the up and up | |
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| | to walk on tiptoe / to step on sb's foot / to join (a trade, profession etc) / to associate with (a certain group of people) | |
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| | half-sibling relationship / brothers with different mother / step- | |
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| | to get there in one step (idiom); easily done / success at a stroke / to get results overnight | |
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| | to squeeze in / to step in / to take part / to step between (two persons in a relationship) | |
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| | step / terrace | |
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