old person who dresses up as teenager / mutton dressed as lamb
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
old but young at heart
to have a child late in life (esp. said of a father)
to sound (old, foreign, exciting, right etc) / to ring (true) / to sound as if (i.e. to give the listener an impression) / to hear from somewhere
to sound like
from the beginning / always / to come of one's own accord
natural curls / natural wave
fountain pen
water mains / service pipe / tap-water pipe
(coll.) naturally outgoing with strangers / quick to act like an old acquaintance / sb who has this trait
since ancient times
for as long as one can remember
inherent / innate
lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come. / You can't make progress by clinging to old notions.
(old) imported goods / foreign goods
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom) / the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
A debt of blood must be paid in blood. / Blood calls for blood.
A debt of blood must be paid in blood. / Blood calls for blood.
(but) then again / (but) on the other hand
(but) then again / (but) on the other hand
speechless
(idiom) when all is said and done
to be able to talk to / to get along with / to be congenial
to earn back (money one invested, wasted etc)
to make a round trip / a return journey
to scamper / to run around
to travel far and wide looking for sth, only to find it easily
to crop up / to pop up / to emerge abruptly
lit. to meet those arriving, to send of those departing (idiom) / busy entertaining guests / all time taken over with social niceties
directly / head-on (collision) / in one's face (of wind)
see 迎來送往|迎来送往[]
to put it in simple terms, ...
the monk coming from afar is good at reading scriptures (idiom) / foreign talent is valued higher than local talent
letter from afar (literary)
to come from far away
recently / until now / up to the present / lately / also written 爾來|尔来
to start over / to do sth all over again
to observe the past to foresee the future (idiom, taken loosely from Book of Songs) / studying ancient wisdom gives insight into what is to come
for a long time now / long since
at leisure / idle / to have nothing to do
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27