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考生 kǎo shēng exam candidate / student whose name has been put forward for an exam
tāng soup / hot or boiling water / decoction of medicinal herbs / water in which sth has been boiled
一经 jīng as soon as / once (an action has been completed)
回弹 huí tán (of sth that has been deformed) to spring back to original shape / (fig.) to rebound / to bounce back
如来 lái tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc)
母胎单身 tāi dān shēn never been in a romantic relationship
木已成舟 chéng zhōu lit. the timber has been turned into a boat already (idiom) / fig. what is done cannot be undone
东坡肘子 Dōng zhǒu zi Dongpo pork shoulder, traditional dish said to have been created by Northern Song dynasty writer Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡
镀层 céng the coating of sth that has been chrome-plated or copper-plated etc
久慕 jiǔ lit. I've admired you for a long time (honorific). / I've been looking forward to meeting you. / It's an honor to meet you at last.
开封 kāi fēng to open (sth that has been sealed)
补办 bàn to do sth after the time it should have been done / to do sth to make up for not having done it before / to reapply for (a lost document, card etc)
不虚此行 xíng (idiom) it's been a worthwhile trip
小强 Xiǎo Qiáng (slang) cockroach ("Little Qiang" was originally the name given to a dead cockroach that had supposedly been a pet of the lead character in the 1993 Hong Kong comedy movie "Flirting Scholar". Subsequently, it came to be used as a name for any cockroach, and also for characters in film and television who are seemingly indestructible or repeatedly resurrected.)
开服 kāi to start the servers (for an online game, typically after the system has been shut down for maintenance, upgrade etc)
前功尽弃 qián gōng jìn to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom) / all that has been achieved goes down the drain
求之不得 qiú zhī lit. seek but fail to get (idiom); fig. exactly what one’s been looking for
已然 rán already / to be already so; to have long been the case
拆封 chāi fēng to open (sth that has been sealed)
卖乖 mài guāi to show off one's cleverness / (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by
故我 one's old self / one's original self / what one has always been
久仰大名 jiǔ yǎng míng I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time (idiom)
隔岸观火 àn guān huǒ to watch the fires burning across the river / to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom)
酒龄 jiǔ líng age of wine (i.e. how long it has been matured)
得陇望蜀 Lǒng wàng Shǔ lit. covet Sichuan once Gansu has been seized / fig. endless greed / insatiable desire


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