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an1fen4shou3ji3
Let the cobbler stick to his last.
To be content with one's lot
To mind your own business |
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an1ju1le4ye4
To live and work in peace and contentment.
To live prosperous and contented life. |
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an4jian4shang1ren2
To wound sb with a secret arrow.
To stab sb in the back.
To hit sb below the belt. |
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ba2miao2zhu4zhang3
To try to help rice shoots grow by pulling them up.
Haste makes waste.
To spoil things by excessive enthusiasm. |
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bai3fa1bai3zhong4
A hundred hits for a hundred shots.
To make every shot count.
To be a crack shot, without fail. |
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bai3wen2bu4ru2yi1jian4
better seeing once than hearing a hundred times.
Seeing is believing. |
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bai3zhe2bu4nao2
To keep fighting in spite of all setbacks.
Against all odds.
Never say die. |
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ban1men2nong4fu3
To show off one's proficiency with an axe before Lyu Ban, the master carpenter.
Preaching to the choir.
To offer to teach a fish how to swim. |
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ban4tu2er2fei4
To abandon sth halfway.
To look back from the plow.
To do something half-way. |
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bei1gong1she2ying1
To be alarmed by mistaking a bow in a cup for a serpent's image.
TO be afraid of your own shadow. |
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bei1shui3che1xin1
To try to put out a burning cart of wood with a cup of water.
A drop in the bucket. |
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bi1shang4liang2shan1
To be forced to join the Liangshan Mountain rebels.
To force sb's hand.
To be forced to do sth desperate. |
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bi4men2zao4che1
To make a cart behind closed doors.
To work on some project without reference to what the world requires.
To do whatever one likes, oblivious to the world around them.
Impractical. |
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bu4han2er2li4
To tremble with fear.
To shudder.
To send chills up one's spine. |
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bu4huang1bu4mang2
Without hurry or alarm.
To keep a level head. |
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bu4ke3yi1shi4
To consider oneself to be without equal.
Insufferably arrogant. |
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bu4yi2yu2li4
To spare no expense/effort.
To do one's best.
To leave no stone unturned.
To move heaven and earth.
To go to great lengths. |
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bu4yi4er2fei1
To disappear without a trace.
To vanish into thin air.
To spread fast, like wildfire. |
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bu4yue1er2tong2
To take the same view without prior consultation.
To act in concert without prior arrangement.
To be of the same opinion with sb. |
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cao3mu4jie1bing1
To mistake every bush & tree for the enemy.
Imaginary fears.
So panic-stricken as to see an enemy everywhere. |
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cheng2feng1po4lang4
To brave the wind and waves.
A smooth and swift sailing. |
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