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一经 jīng as soon as / once (an action has been completed)
tāng soup / hot or boiling water / decoction of medicinal herbs / water in which sth has been boiled
考生 kǎo shēng exam candidate / student whose name has been put forward for an exam
开启 kāi to start; to begin; to initiate (an era, process, journey etc) / (computing) to enable (a feature) / (of a system or device) to start operating automatically; to self-initiate / to open (sth that has been sealed)
拨乱反正 luàn fǎn zhèng bring order out of chaos / set to rights things which have been thrown into disorder
八字还没一撇 hái méi piě lit. not even the first stroke of the character 八[ba1] has been written (idiom) / fig. things have not even gotten started yet; nothing tangible has come of one's plans yet
脱星 tuō xīng actress or actor known for having been photographed in the nude or for appearing in sexy scenes
前功尽弃 qián gōng jìn to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom) / all that has been achieved goes down the drain
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.)
功莫大焉 gōng yān no greater contribution has been made than this (idiom)
从来没有 cóng lái méi yǒu there has never been; has never had / (before a verb) has never
米汤 tāng water in which rice has been boiled and then strained out
羊毛出在羊身上 yáng máo chū zài yáng shēn shàng lit. wool comes from the sheep's back (idiom); One gets the benefit, but the price has been paid. / Nothing comes for free.
原封不动 yuán fēng dòng lit. the original seal has not been disturbed (idiom) / fig. left completely unchanged; untouched; intact
开封 kāi fēng to open (sth that has been sealed)
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)
腊肉 ròu meat that has been cured and air-dried in the cold (esp. during the 12th lunar month)
另存 lìng cún to save (a file) after options (name, location, format etc) have been selected by the user
前无古人,后无来者 qián rén , hòu lái zhě there has never been and never will be another person like this (idiom) / never done before and unlikely to be matched in the future / peerless
历尽沧桑 jìn cāng sāng to have been through the hardships of life / to have been through the mill
复刻 to reprint (a work that has been out of print) / to reissue (a vinyl album as a CD, etc) / to replicate / to recreate / (computing) fork (loanword)
拆封 chāi fēng to open (sth that has been sealed)
历尽 jìn to have experienced a lot of / to have been through
pān (archaic) water in which rice has been washed / (Tw) kitchen waste; food scraps (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [phun])
不虚此行 xíng (idiom) it's been a worthwhile trip


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