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1 perhaps

2 maybe

1 without a second thought

1 that is

2 i.e.

1 as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft

2 to have nothing

3 vacuous

4 hollow

5 empty (argument, head etc)

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 fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor

1 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚[Zuì yǔ Fá]

2 also written 陀思妥耶夫斯基[Tuó sī tuǒ yē fū sī jī]

1 Life is short, learning is limitless

2 Ars longa, vita brevis

1 Adolphe Thiers

1 strangely enough

2 oddly enough

3 strange to say

1 in other words

2 that is to say

3 so

4 thus

1 not to reciprocate is against etiquette (classical)

2 to respond in kind

1 (lit.) to get shot even when lying down

2 (fig.) to get unjustly ridiculed, attacked, implicated in sth etc while just being present (Internet slang)

3 abbr. to 躺槍|躺枪[tǎng qiāng]

1 just as bad

2 not much better

1 Vienna, capital of Austria

1 (coll.) to get one's just deserts

2 to serve sb right

3 to get one's share of (good or bad things)

4 every dog has its day

1 best not to mention it

2 drop it

3 never mind

4 let's not talk about it

1 Appetite and lust are only natural (Mencius 6A:4).

2 By nature we desire food and sex.

1 lit. 之[zhī], 乎[hū], 者[zhě] and 也[yě] (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions

1 hardly any better

2 just as bad

1 mouth full of literary phrases

2 to spout the classics