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意味着 wèi zhe to signify / to mean / to imply
sǔn to decrease; to lose / to damage; to harm / (coll.) to ridicule; to deride / (coll.) caustic; sarcastic; nasty; mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨
登场 dēng chǎng to go on stage / fig. to appear on the scene / used in advertising to mean new product
rustic / low / base / mean / to despise / to scorn
旗号 hào military banner (often used figuratively, usually pejoratively, to mean "pretext" or "ostensible purpose") / flag signal; semaphore
格林尼治 lín zhì Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude) / refers to Greenwich mean time
刻薄 unkind / harsh / cutting / mean / acrimony / to embezzle by making illegal deductions
说一不二 shuō èr to say one and mean just that (idiom); to keep one's word
仁义道德 rén dào compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues / mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical
小手小脚 xiǎo shǒu xiǎo jiǎo mean / stingy / to be lacking in boldness / timid
意味 wèi meaning / implication / flavor / overtone / to mean / to imply / (Tw) to get a sense of
代指 dài zhǐ to mean / to signify
近古 jìn near ancient history (often taken to mean Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing times)
贪鄙 tān to be avaricious and mean
纱支 shā zhī (textiles) yarn count (unit indicating the fineness of a yarn) / (sometimes used loosely to mean thread count)
面恶心善 miàn è xīn shàn to have a mean-looking face but a heart of gold (idiom)
意指 zhǐ to mean / to imply
以小人之心,度君子之腹 xiǎo rén zhī xīn , duó jūn zhī to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)
口不应心 kǒu yìng xīn to say one thing but mean another / to dissimulate
意谓 wèi to mean / meaning
挨边 āi biān to keep close to the edge / near the mark / close to (the true figure) / relevant (used with negative to mean totally irrelevant)
死了张屠夫,不吃混毛猪 le Zhāng , chī hùn máo zhū lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with bristles (idiom) / fig. nobody is indispensable
薄养厚葬 yǎng hòu zàng to neglect one's parents but give them a rich funeral / hypocrisy in arranging a lavish funeral after treating one's parents meanly
说话算数 shuō huà suàn shù to keep one's promise; to mean what one says
说话算话 shuō huà suàn huà to do as promised / to be as good as one's word / to honor one's word / to mean what one says


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