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不行 xíng won't do / be out of the question / be no good / not work / not be capable
不必 need not / does not have to / not necessarily
来不及 lái bu there's not enough time (to do sth) / it's too late (to do sth)
招呼 zhāo hu to call out to / to greet / to say hello to / to inform / to take care of / to take care that one does not
没法儿 méi fǎr (coll.) can't do anything about it / (coll.) there's no way that ...; it's simply not credible that ... / (coll.) couldn't be (better) (i.e. simply wonderful)
尽管 jǐn guǎn despite / although / even though / in spite of / unhesitatingly / do not hesitate (to ask, complain etc) / (go ahead and do it) without hesitating
不易 not easy to do sth / difficult / unchanging
只管 zhǐ guǎn solely engrossed in one thing / just (one thing, no need to worry about the rest) / simply / by all means / please feel free / do not hesitate (to ask for sth)
do not
供不应求 gōng yìng qiú supply does not meet demand
得不偿失 cháng shī the gains do not make up for the losses (idiom)
身不由己 shēn yóu (idiom) (of one's circumstances) beyond one's control; unable to do anything about it; (of one's actions) not subject to conscious control (i.e. done in spite of oneself)
不惜 not stint / not spare / not hesitate (to do sth) / not scruple (to do sth)
不屑 xiè to disdain to do sth / to think sth not worth doing / to feel it beneath one's dignity
凑合 còu he to bring together / to make do in a bad situation / to just get by / to improvise / passable / not too bad
无缘 yuán to have no opportunity / no way (of doing sth) / no chance / no connection / not placed (in a competition) / (in pop lyrics) no chance of love, no place to be together etc
何不 why not? / why not do (sth)?
水仙 shuǐ xiān narcissus / daffodil / legendary aquatic immortal / refers to those buried at sea / person who wanders abroad and does not return
好吃懒做 hào chī lǎn zuò happy to partake but not prepared to do any work (idiom) / all take and no give
己所不欲,勿施于人 suǒ , shī rén 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.
do not / there is none who
青黄不接 qīng huáng jiē lit. yellow does not reach green (idiom); the yellow autumn crop does not last until the green spring crop / temporary deficit in manpower or resources / unable to make ends meet
祸福无常 huò cháng disaster and happiness do not follow rules (idiom); future blessings and misfortunes are unpredictable
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)
舔狗 tiǎn gǒu (neologism c. 2018) (slang) simp; person who resorts to cringeworthy fawning behavior in pursuing sb who does not requite their affections


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