to take advantage of sb's difficulties (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation趁人之危
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to take advantage of sb's difficulties (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation趁人之危
to marry (of woman)
Headword or pronunciation跟人
ordinary person A / generic person / some random person
Headword or pronunciation路人甲
understood by everyone (idiom) / well known / a household name
Headword or pronunciation路人皆知
just as distance determines the stamina of a horse, so does time reveal a person's true heart (proverb)
Headword or pronunciation路遥知马力,日久见人心
tutor
Headword or pronunciation辅导人
farmer
Headword or pronunciation农人
contemporary / modern person / close friend / associate / intimate
Headword or pronunciation近人
to give away / to accompany / to see sb off
Headword or pronunciation送人
passer-by / stranger
Headword or pronunciation途人
cute
Headword or pronunciation逗人喜爱
to make people laugh
Headword or pronunciation逗人发笑
learned person / person of wide knowledge and sound scholarship
Headword or pronunciation通人
artificial general intelligence (AGI)
Headword or pronunciation通用人工智能
(of a creator deity) to create mankind / to conceive a baby / (slang) to make love
Headword or pronunciation造人
to tell anybody one happens to meet
Headword or pronunciation逢人便讲
pressing / threatening
Headword or pronunciation逼人
to push sb too far / to go too far (in oppressing people)
Headword or pronunciation逼人太甚
(idiom) to be in a relationship with or marry a bad person / (idiom) to associate with a bad person
Headword or pronunciation遇人不淑
a tourist
Headword or pronunciation游人
crowded with visitors / packed with tourists
Headword or pronunciation游人如织
troubadour / bard
Headword or pronunciation游吟诗人
Taoist devotee (honorific)
Headword or pronunciation道人
(idiom) high officials and noble lords / the powerful and influential
Headword or pronunciation达官贵人
an estranged person / sb who is alienated / people far from home
Headword or pronunciation远人
(said of a woman) to marry (old)
Headword or pronunciation适人
to vent one's anger on an innocent party (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation迁怒于人
voter / elector
Headword or pronunciation选举人
to buy popular support / to court favor
Headword or pronunciation邀买人心
marginalized people (not part of mainstream society) / marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring to a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either)
Headword or pronunciation边缘人
borderline personality disorder (BPD)
Headword or pronunciation边缘性人格障碍
lit. that person / fig. the person you have been looking for / Mr Right / the girl of one's dreams
Headword or pronunciation那个人
villager / fellow villager
Headword or pronunciation乡人
(lit.) the person from Zheng 鄭|郑[] who wanted to buy shoes (an allusion to an ancient story about somebody who, when buying a pair of shoes, preferred to rely on their foot measurements rather than just trying them on) (idiom) / (fig.) disregarding the sensible approach in favor of adherence to a fixed idea
Headword or pronunciation郑人买履
neighbor
Headword or pronunciation邻人
optician
Headword or pronunciation配镜人员
wine doesn't make men drunk: men get themselves intoxicated. Lust does not overpower men: men surrender themselves to lust
Headword or pronunciation酒不醉人人自醉,色不迷人人自迷
intoxicating / fascinating
Headword or pronunciation醉人
(saying) unattractive or untalented people tend to make spectacles of themselves
Headword or pronunciation丑人多作怪
medical personnel / healthcare workers
Headword or pronunciation医务人员