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团结就是力量 | 團結就是力量
tuán jié jiù shì lì liang
  1. 1 unity is strength (revolutionary slogan and popular song of 1943)
听见风就是雨 | 聽見風就是雨
tīng jiàn fēng jiù shì yǔ
  1. 1 lit. on hearing wind, to say rain
  2. 2 to agree uncritically with whatever people say
  3. 3 to parrot other people's words
  4. 4 to chime in with others
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
听风就是雨 | 聽風就是雨
tīng fēng jiù shì yǔ
  1. 1 lit. to believe in the rain on hearing the wind (idiom)
  2. 2 to believe rumors
  3. 3 to be credulous
不是鱼死就是网破 | 不是魚死就是網破
bù shì yú sǐ jiù shì wǎng pò
  1. 1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle
  3. 3 it's either him or me
也就是
yě jiù shì
  1. 1 that is
  2. 2 i.e.
就是说 | 就是說
jiù shì shuō
  1. 1 in other words
  2. 2 that is
捡到篮里就是菜 | 撿到籃裡就是菜
jiǎn dào lán lǐ jiù shì cài
  1. 1 all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)
就是
jiù shì
  1. 1 (emphasizes that sth is precisely or exactly as stated)
  2. 2 precisely
  3. 3 exactly
  4. 4 even
  5. 5 if
  6. 6 just like
  7. 7 in the same way as
不管白猫黑猫,捉住老鼠就是好猫 | 不管白貓黑貓,捉住老鼠就是好貓
bù guǎn bái māo hēi māo , zhuō zhù lǎo shǔ jiù shì hǎo māo
  1. 1 it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Dèng Xiǎo píng] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)
乃是
nǎi shì
  1. 1 equivalent to either 是[shì] or 就是[jiù shì]
因陋就简 | 因陋就簡
yīn lòu jiù jiǎn
  1. 1 crude but simple methods (idiom); use whatever methods you can
  2. 2 to do things simply and thriftily
  3. 3 It's not pretty but it works.
宣誓就职 | 宣誓就職
xuān shì jiù zhí
  1. 1 to swear the oath of office
是不是
shì bù shì
  1. 1 is or isn't
  2. 2 yes or no
  3. 3 whether or not
就业机会 | 就業機會
jiù yè jī huì
  1. 1 employment opportunity
  2. 2 job opening
是骡子是马,牵出来遛遛 | 是騾子是馬,牽出來遛遛
shì luó zi shì mǎ , qiān chū lai liù liu
  1. 1 lit. to see whether it's a mule or a horse, take it out for a walk (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the proof of the pudding is in the eating
  3. 3 to show what one is made of
一挥而就 | 一揮而就
yī huī ér jiù
  1. 1 to finish (a letter, a painting) at a stroke
就职演说 | 就職演說
jiù zhí yǎn shuō
  1. 1 inaugural speech
避实就虚 | 避實就虛
bì shí jiù xū
  1. 1 (idiom) stay clear of the enemy's main force and strike at his weak points