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想也没想 | 想也沒想
xiǎng yě méi xiǎng
  1. 1 without a second thought
也就是
yě jiù shì
  1. 1 that is
  2. 2 i.e.
空空如也
kōng kōng rú yě
  1. 1 as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft
  2. 2 to have nothing
  3. 3 vacuous
  4. 4 hollow
  5. 5 empty (argument, head etc)
成也萧何,败也萧何 | 成也蕭何,敗也蕭何
chéng yě Xiāo Hé , bài yě Xiāo Hé
  1. 1 lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Hán Xìn] being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军[dà jiāng jūn]
  2. 2 fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor
陀思妥也夫斯基
Tuó sī tuǒ yě fū sī jī
  1. 1 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚[Zuì yǔ Fá]
  2. 2 also written 陀思妥耶夫斯基[Tuó sī tuǒ yē fū sī jī]
吾生也有涯,而知也无涯 | 吾生也有涯,而知也無涯
wú shēng yě yǒu yá , ér zhī yě wú yá
  1. 1 Life is short, learning is limitless
  2. 2 Ars longa, vita brevis
梯也尔 | 梯也爾
Tī yě ěr
  1. 1 Adolphe Thiers
说也奇怪 | 說也奇怪
shuō yě qí guài
  1. 1 strangely enough
  2. 2 oddly enough
  3. 3 strange to say
也就是说 | 也就是說
yě jiù shì shuō
  1. 1 in other words
  2. 2 that is to say
  3. 3 so
  4. 4 thus
来而不往非礼也 | 來而不往非禮也
lái ér bù wǎng fēi lǐ yě
  1. 1 not to reciprocate is against etiquette (classical)
  2. 2 to respond in kind
躺着也中枪 | 躺著也中槍
tǎng zhe yě zhòng qiāng
  1. 1 (lit.) to get shot even when lying down
  2. 2 (fig.) to get unjustly ridiculed, attacked, implicated in sth etc while just being present (Internet slang)
  3. 3 abbr. to 躺槍|躺枪[tǎng qiāng]
也好不到哪里去 | 也好不到哪裡去
yě hǎo bù dào nǎ lǐ qù
  1. 1 just as bad
  2. 2 not much better
维也纳 | 維也納
Wéi yě nà
  1. 1 Vienna, capital of Austria
也有今天
yě yǒu jīn tiān
  1. 1 (coll.) to get one's just deserts
  2. 2 to serve sb right
  3. 3 to get one's share of (good or bad things)
  4. 4 every dog has its day
不提也罢 | 不提也罷
bù tí yě bà
  1. 1 best not to mention it
  2. 2 drop it
  3. 3 never mind
  4. 4 let's not talk about it
食色性也
shí sè xìng yě
  1. 1 Appetite and lust are only natural (Mencius 6A:4).
  2. 2 By nature we desire food and sex.
之乎者也
zhī hū zhě yě
  1. 1 lit. 之[zhī], 乎[hū], 者[zhě] and 也[yě] (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions
也好不了多少
yě hǎo bu liǎo duō shǎo
  1. 1 hardly any better
  2. 2 just as bad
满口之乎者也 | 滿口之乎者也
mǎn kǒu zhī hū zhě yě
  1. 1 mouth full of literary phrases
  2. 2 to spout the classics
我也是醉了
wǒ yě shì zuì le
  1. 1 (Internet slang) I can't even...
  2. 2 Are you kidding me!
  3. 3 OMG!