to shorten / shortening
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
to crumble
to spoil / to mess up
emperor's favorite courtier
to practice fraud (idiom) / by trickery
(coll.) to take (sth) away / to get rid of
to get a good grasp of
to wake sb up
to err / to get sth wrong / to miscalculate / to misunderstand
to make dirty / to defile / to smear
to wink at sb
to look after / to tend (one's crops, garden, livestock, pets etc) / to repair
to mock / to bully and insult
to move (things around) / to buy and sell at a profit (derog.)
(dialect) to mix / to stir / to make trouble
lit. singing of the wind and the moon / fig. vacuous and sentimental (of poetry or art)
lit. to play with one's grandchildren while eating candy (idiom) / fig. to enjoy a happy and leisurely old age
to fool / to deceive
to fool / to deceive
alley / lane
to play with / to fiddle with
to incite / to provoke / to tease
see 搔首弄姿[]
to move back and forward / to trade
to fiddle with / to play and move sth about / to show off (what one can do) / to parade (one's capabilities) / to cause trouble
to incite a quarrel (idiom) / to sow discord between people / to tell tales / to make mischief
to fondle / to caress / to stroke
to order people about / to stir up / to sow discord
to manipulate / manipulation
to make eyes / to wink
deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated
to show off / to flaunt
to juggle with words (dishonestly) / to be a hypocrite and hide behind florid rhetoric
to play around with / to fidget / to fondle
to fool around with / to mess with
to fool / to deceive / to go through the motions
to wave / to brandish
(idiom) to display one's facility with words / to show off one's literary skills / (original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology (墨[] was a reference to 繩墨|绳墨[])
(lit.) to pretend to be in contact with supernatural beings (idiom) / (fig.) to create a false sense of mystery / to play tricks to deceive or scare others / to engage in hocus-pocus
to tease / to make fun of / to provoke / to stir up (trouble)
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