(of a lazy or incompetent teacher) to hamper students' progress / (of media) to propagate errors / to lead people astray
Results for “子”
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harmonic oscillator (physics)
various sages / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒[] represented by Confucius 孔子[] and Mencius 孟子[], Daoism 道[] by Laozi 老子[] and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[], Mohism 墨[] by Mozi 墨子[], Legalism 法[] by Sunzi 孫子|孙子[] and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子[], and numerous others
various sages and ten schools of thought / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒[] represented by Confucius 孔子[] and Mencius 孟子[], Daoism 道[] by Laozi 老子[] and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[], Mohism 墨[] by Mozi 墨子[], Legalism 法[] by Sunzi 孫子|孙子[] and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子[], and numerous others
the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC)
musical score
(fig.) to be unduly protective of one's own (often to the point of excusing or defending their wrongdoing)
(Shandong dialect) cowpea (Vigna unguiculata)
raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) / raccoon of North China, Korea and Japan (Japanese: tanuki) / also called 狸
the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom) / hypocritical pretence of condolence / crocodile tears
negative ion / anion (physics)
peddlers and common people / lower class
to allow sb to save face / to defer to
(physics) fermion
(in storytelling) to keep listeners in suspense / (in general) to keep people on tenterhooks
to show deference to sb by obliging them (or by obliging sb associated with them)
proton number in nucleus / atomic number
proton bombardment
newborn baby / the people (of a country)
pure and innocent like the heart of a newborn / sincere
a move (in chess)
lit. to drive a duck onto a perch (idiom) / fig. to push sb to do sth way beyond their ability
callus (patch or hardened skin) / corns (on the feet)
(dialect) to live as a bachelor / bachelor
hopscotch / to play hopscotch
(gymnastics) roundoff
pedal
lit. to climb all over sb / fig. to take advantage of sb's weakness
(coll.) physique / physical constitution / health
(lit.) when a man stands straight, he doesn't worry that his shadow is slanting (saying) / (fig.) as long as one conducts oneself honorably, one need not worry about what people think / a clean hand wants no washing
(loanword) sweet cherry
wheel
(lit.) the soft knife / (fig.) underhanded tactics / devious means of attack
(coll.) pushover / soft touch
lit. a soft nail / fig. a tactful retort or rejection
lepton (particle physics)
(electricity) rotor
(coll.) to pace around nervously / to speak indirectly / to beat about the bush
sassy young woman or pretty girl (esp. one from China's spice belt: Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan)
cayenne pepper / chili