cause / reason / karma / fate / predestined affinity / margin / hem / edge / along
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reason / cause
edge / fringe / verge / brink / periphery / marginal / borderline
(idiom) no cause or reason / completely uncalled for
bloodline
reason / cause
fate or chance that brings people together / predestined affinity or relationship / (Budd.) destiny
the quality of one's relationships with other people (e.g. 人緣好|人缘好[] "to be well liked")
to have no opportunity / no way (of doing sth) / no chance / no connection / not placed (in a competition) / (in pop lyrics) no chance of love, no place to be together etc
to be kindred spirits / to hit it off
predestined love / love affinity
to have no contact with / to be cut off from / (electricity) to insulate
chance / opportunity / destiny
chance / opportunity / predestined relationship / (Buddhist) principal and secondary causes / chain of cause and effect
a marriage predestined by fate
to originate from / to come from the fact that / owing to / because of
lit. climb a tree to catch a fish (idiom) / fig. to attempt the impossible
to originate / origin / genesis / account of the origins of an endeavor
fringe
(idiom) one-time encounter (e.g. 有一面之緣|有一面之缘[] "to have met once before")
erhua form of 人緣|人缘[]
flange
a marriage predestined in a former life (idiom)
one's predestined fate is yet to be fulfilled (idiom)
(of a monk) to beg for food
(of a monk) to beg
good karma
(idiom) to get happily married / to form an auspicious union
geographic situation / geo-(politics etc)
geostrategic
geopolitics / geopolitical
geopolitics
to curry favor / to advance one's career by toadying
to cling to the rich and powerful (idiom) / to advance one's career by currying favor / social climbing
ill-fated relationship
to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom) / without any practical course of action
abbr. for 守株待兔，緣木求魚|守株待兔，缘木求鱼[]
(Buddhism) predestined relationship
to earn people's praise through one's good deeds (idiom)
trailing edge (of airplane wing)
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