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清酒 qīng jiǔ sake (Japanese rice wine)
念旧 niàn jiù to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake
抬杠 tái gàng to bicker / to argue for the sake of arguing / to carry on poles (together with sb else) / to carry a coffin on poles
功亏一篑 gōng kuī kuì lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful / to fail through lack of a final effort / to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)
为着 wèi zhe in order to / because of / for the sake of
薄面 miàn my meager sensibilities / blushing face / please do it for my sake (i.e. to save my face)(humble)
姑妄言之 wàng yán zhī to just talk for the sake of talking
任侠 rèn xiá chivalrous / helping the weak for the sake of justice
为的是 wèi de shì for the sake of / for the purpose of
空耳 kōng ěr to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")
看在 kàn zài (in the expression 看在[kan4 zai4] + ... + 的份上[de5 fen4 shang5]) for the sake of ...; considering ...
死要面子活受罪 yào miàn zi huó shòu zuì to go through hell for the sake of keeping up appearances (idiom)
以利于 for the sake of / in order to
不看僧面看佛面 kàn sēng miàn kàn miàn lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom) / fig. (to do sth for sb) out of deference to sb else
欲取姑与 - (idiom) to make concessions for the sake of future gains
日本米酒 běn jiǔ Japanese rice wine / sake
为五斗米折腰 wèi dǒu zhé yāo (allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜[Tao2 Qian2], who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary
猎隼 liè sǔn (bird species of China) saker falcon (Falco cherrug)


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