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要言不烦 | 要言不煩
- 1 to explain in simple terms
- 2 succinct
- 3 concise
不要紧 | 不要緊
- 1 unimportant
- 2 not serious
- 3 it doesn't matter
- 4 never mind
- 5 it looks all right, but
死不要脸 | 死不要臉
- 1 to know no shame
- 2 to be totally shameless
不得要领 | 不得要領
- 1 to fail to grasp the main points
要死不活
- 1 half dead
- 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
- 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
- 1 lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom)
- 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
- 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 yòu yào mǎ r5 bù chī cǎo]
要不然
- 1 otherwise
- 2 or else
- 3 or
不要脸 | 不要臉
- 1 to have no sense of shame
- 2 shameless
要不得
- 1 intolerable
- 2 unacceptable
不必要
- 1 needless
- 2 unnecessary
要不是
- 1 if it were not for
- 2 but for
不要在一棵树上吊死 | 不要在一棵樹上吊死
- 1 don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)
- 2 there's more than one way to skin a cat
不要
- 1 don't!
- 2 must not
若要人不知,除非己莫为 | 若要人不知,除非己莫為
- 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
- 1 otherwise
- 2 or else
- 3 how about...?
- 4 either... (or...)
嫑
- 1 (dialect) don't
- 2 must not
- 3 (contraction of 不 and 要)
权利要求 | 權利要求
- 1 claim to rights (copyright, patent etc)
说话要算数 | 說話要算數
- 1 promises must be kept