to go on an errand for nothing / to go on a wild-goose chase
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one hundred percent / totally (effective)
lit. after climbing a hundred feet up a pole, one should go even further (idiom) / fig. even if one has achieved a measure of success, one should strive to do even better
no danger of anything going wrong / no risk at all
seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom) / seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others / seeing is believing
one in a hundred / cream of the crop
all the rage for a time / grand fashion for a limited time
the eye can see nothing worthwhile all around (idiom) / arrogant / condescending / supercilious
careless / any-old-how, regardless of the specific task
to have a look
(one's) eyes light up / to be impressed by what one sees
all of one voice / unanimous
to turn a blind eye
to turn a blind eye
to shoot a glance at
(coll.) one's first time ever experiencing sth (esp. sth notable or unusual)
lit. to have one's nose rubbed in the dirt / fig. to meet with a sharp rebuff
science and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[] introducing the Four Modernizations 四個現代化|四个现代化[])
to make a journey for nothing
(of male friends) to have been through thick and thin together / to be like family / to share the same view of things
lit. see one spot on a leopard (idiom) / fig. a restricted view
using a wicker basket to draw water (idiom) / wasted effort
first-person shooter (video game genre)
first author (of an academic paper)
First international, organized by Karl Marx in Geneva in 1866
Type 1 diabetes
(math.) first fundamental form
first quarter (of financial year)
the person in charge / the head of the leadership group
in the first moments (of sth happening) / immediately (after an event) / first thing
the first pot of gold / the initial profits from an economic endeavour
the first time / for the first time
step one / first step
(fig.) opening shot
primary sector of industry
at first glance / at first sight
first tone in Mandarin / high, level tone
first round (of match, or election)
to wait a moment / later / in awhile
erhua variant of 等一下[]
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27