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不知羞耻bù zhī xiū chǐ

to have no sense of shame / brazen

不知者不罪bù zhī zhě bù zuì

One who does not know is not guilty / If one does not know any better, one cannot be held responsible

不知轻重bù zhī qīng zhòng

lit. not knowing what's important (idiom) / no appreciation of the gravity of things / naive / doesn't know who's who / no sense of priorities

不知进退bù zhī jìn tuì

not knowing when to come or leave (idiom) / with no sense of propriety

不破不立bù pò bù lì

without destruction there can be no construction

不碎玻璃bù suì bō li

shatterproof or safety glass

不确定性原理bù què dìng xìng yuán lǐ

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle (1927)

不确实bù què shí

untrue

不祥之兆bù xiáng zhī zhào

(idiom) bad omen

不移bù yí

steadfast / inalienable

不稂不莠bù láng bù yǒu

useless / worthless / good-for-nothing

unstable / unsteady

unstable equilibrium

instability

endless / boundless / inexhaustible

不第bù dì

to fail the civil service examination (in imperial China)

不等价交换bù děng jià jiāo huàn

exchange of unequal values

不等式bù děng shì

inequality (math.)

不等号bù děng hào

inequality sign (≠, < , ≤, >, ≥)

不等边三角形bù děng biān sān jiǎo xíng

scalene triangle

不管三七二十一bù guǎn sān qī èr shí yī

regardless of the consequences / recklessly relying on a hopelessly optimistic forecast

不管白猫黑猫，捉住老鼠就是好猫bù guǎn bái māo hēi māo , zhuō zhù lǎo shǔ jiù shì hǎo māo

it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black / as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Dèng Xiǎo píng] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)

不简单bù jiǎn dān

not simple / rather complicated / remarkable / marvelous

不粘锅bù zhān guō

non-stick pan

不约而同bù yuē ér tóng

(idiom) (of two or more people) to take the same action without prior consultation / (usu. used adverbially) all (or both) of them, independently / as if by prior agreement

不结盟bù jié méng

nonalignment

不绝bù jué

unending / uninterrupted

不绝如缕bù jué rú lǚ

hanging by a thread / very precarious / almost extinct / (of sound) linger on faintly

不绝于耳bù jué yú ěr

(of sound) to never stop / to fall incessantly on the ear / to linger on

不绝于途bù jué yú tú

to come and go in an incessant stream

不给力bù gěi lì

lame (unimpressive) / a huge letdown / not to try at all