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Did you mean: die di died do day dad didi dead ?

wèi not yet / did not / have not / not / 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep / ancient Chinese compass point: 210°
从没 cóng méi never (in the past) / never did
有没有 yǒu méi yǒu (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...? / Is there a ...? / (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)? / Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)?
何曾 céng did I ever ...? (or "did he ever ...?" etc)
怎么回事 zěn me huí shì what's the matter? / what's going on? / how could that be? / how did that come about? / what's it all about?
断片儿 duàn piànr (coll.) to suffer an alcohol-induced blackout / to be unable to recall what one did while drunk
素面朝天 miàn cháo tiān lit. to present oneself confidently to the emperor, without makeup (as did the sister of Yang Guifei 楊貴妃|杨贵妃[Yang2 Gui4 fei1]) (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) to show one's natural features, without makeup / to present oneself just as one is, without artifice
胯下之辱 kuà xià zhī lit. the humiliation of having to crawl between the legs of one's adversary (as Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Han2 Xin4] supposedly did rather than engage in a sword fight) (idiom) / fig. (endure) utter humiliation
怎么搞的 zěn me gǎo de How did it happen? / What's wrong? / What went wrong? / What's up?
并未 bìng wèi (used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ...
增生 zēng shēng (medicine) hyperplasia / (abbr. for 增廣生員|增广生员[zeng1 guang3 sheng1 yuan2]) a scholar studying for the Ming dynasty imperial examinations who did not make the quota for support in the form of a monthly allowance of rice that students who made the quota received
有则改之,无则加勉 yǒu gǎi zhī , jiā miǎn correct any mistakes you made, but maintain your good record if you did not make them (idiom)
穷二代 qióng èr dài those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s / see also 富二代[fu4 er4 dai4]
肄业证书 zhèng shū certificate of partial completion / certificate of attendance (for a student who did not graduate)


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