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要言不烦 | 要言不煩
yào yán bù fán
  1. 1 to explain in simple terms
  2. 2 succinct
  3. 3 concise
不要紧 | 不要緊
bù yào jǐn
  1. 1 unimportant
  2. 2 not serious
  3. 3 it doesn't matter
  4. 4 never mind
  5. 5 it looks all right, but
死不要脸 | 死不要臉
sǐ bù yào liǎn
  1. 1 to know no shame
  2. 2 to be totally shameless
不得要领 | 不得要領
bù dé yào lǐng
  1. 1 to fail to grasp the main points
要死不活
yào sǐ bù huó
  1. 1 half dead
  2. 2 more dead than alive
刀不磨要生锈,人不学要落后 | 刀不磨要生銹,人不學要落後
dāo bù mó yào shēng xiù , rén bù xué yào luò hòu
  1. 1 a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study (idiom)
又要马儿跑,又要马儿不吃草 | 又要馬兒跑,又要馬兒不吃草
yòu yào mǎ r pǎo , yòu yào mǎ r bù chī cǎo
  1. 1 lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too
又要马儿好,又要马儿不吃草 | 又要馬兒好,又要馬兒不吃草
yòu yào mǎ r hǎo , yòu yào mǎ r bù chī cǎo
  1. 1 又要馬兒跑,又要馬兒不吃草|又要马儿跑,又要马儿不吃草[yòu yào mǎ r5 pǎo
  2. 2 yòu yào mǎ r5 bù chī cǎo]
要不然
yào bù rán
  1. 1 otherwise
  2. 2 or else
  3. 3 or
不要脸 | 不要臉
bù yào liǎn
  1. 1 to have no sense of shame
  2. 2 shameless
要不得
yào bu de
  1. 1 intolerable
  2. 2 unacceptable
不必要
bù bì yào
  1. 1 needless
  2. 2 unnecessary
要不是
yào bu shì
  1. 1 if it were not for
  2. 2 but for
不要在一棵树上吊死 | 不要在一棵樹上吊死
bù yào zài yī kē shù shàng diào sǐ
  1. 1 don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)
  2. 2 there's more than one way to skin a cat
不要
bù yào
  1. 1 don't!
  2. 2 must not
若要人不知,除非己莫为 | 若要人不知,除非己莫為
ruò yào rén bù zhī , chú fēi jǐ mò wéi
  1. 1 If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it (idiom). fig. If you do something bad, people will inevitably hear about it.
要不
yào bù
  1. 1 otherwise
  2. 2 or else
  3. 3 how about...?
  4. 4 either... (or...)
biáo
  1. 1 (dialect) don't
  2. 2 must not
  3. 3 (contraction of 不 and 要)
权利要求 | 權利要求
quán lì yāo qiú
  1. 1 claim to rights (copyright, patent etc)
说话要算数 | 說話要算數
shuō huà yào suàn shù
  1. 1 promises must be kept