old tune / fig. conservative opinion / the same old stuff
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replaying the same old tunes (idiom) / conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff
evaporative air conditioner / evaporative cooler
blues (music)
demodulation / to demodulate
aria
cognitive dissonance
to request a transfer
tone sandhi / modified tone / (music) to change key / modulation
(music) capo
to be off-key or out of tune (while singing) (colloquial)
to do a background check on sb
opinion poll
(music) to change key / modulation / (of an employee) to be transferred to another post
follow-up study / investigative follow-up
klystron (electronic tube used to produce high frequency radio waves)
tone sandhi
coarse in speech and manner
falling intonation (linguistics) / to lower the key of a tune / to demote
cable modem
rhyme and tone / intonation
frequency modulation
character (of a person, verse, object etc) / style
(idiom) to have good weather for crops
blabbing and showing off (idiom) / loud-mouthed trouble maker
variant of 掉頭|掉头[]
see 調兵山市|调兵山市[]
Diaobingshan, a county-level city in Tieling City 鐵嶺市|铁岭市[], Liaoning
(literary) to nurse to health / to recuperate
China Geological Survey (CGS)
Anhui opera
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
(literary) false rhetoric
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27