Results for “其”

to bear the brunt

(idiom) reluctant to speak about it / tight-lipped

to do the very opposite / to act in a diametrically opposite way

thirdly / the third

there is a reason for it / (of sth) not incidental

previously / before that / up to then

included / within that

besides / in addition / apart from that

its place / one's appointed place / the place for that

boundless joy

boundless joy

(of relations) joyous and harmonious

one's own (respective) / proprietary

(idiom) nothing special to look at / unprepossessing

to raise and lower one's hand (idiom) / to signal as conspiratorial hint / fig. conspiring to defraud

unable to put up with (sth) any longer

to be pestered beyond endurance

unable to bear the pain (idiom)

don't meddle in affairs that are not part of your position (Confucius)

(idiom) (of a married woman) to be unfaithful / to have extramarital affairs

to be unable to get into (a house, an organization, a field of study, a particular type of career etc)

words of a man on his deathbed always come from the heart (proverb)

(idiom) to live up to one's name / true to one's name

employ one's talent to the fullest / everyone gives of their best

to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹[Zhū Xī]) / to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game / to give sb a taste of his own medicine

to let things take their course (idiom) / to leave it to nature / laissez-faire

internal disunity dissolves at the threat of an invasion from outside (idiom)

to catch an enemy off guard with a surprise attack (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sūn zǐ Bīng fǎ])

to tackle a difficult job (idiom) / to do sth reluctantly

cappuccino coffee

to remove the dross / to discard the dregs

to take the best / to absorb the essence

take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan) / keep what is good, discard the rest / You need to be selective when studying. / In modernizing the country, don't accept uncritically all foreign ideas.

to know the first, but not know the second (idiom) / only partial information

each one does what he thinks is right (idiom) / each goes his own way

to both benefit

to equivocate / to talk evasively (idiom)

a wise man has passed away (idiom)

(mineralogy) (loanword) turquoise

rampant / very popular