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不管白貓黑貓，捉住老鼠就是好貓 |
不管白猫黑猫，捉住老鼠就是好猫 |
[bu4 guan3 bai2 mao1 hei1 mao1 , zhuo1 zhu4 lao3 shu3 jiu4 shi4 hao3 mao1] |
/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[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)/ |
2571
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不是魚死就是網破 |
不是鱼死就是网破 |
[bu4 shi4 yu2 si3 jiu4 shi4 wang3 po4] |
/lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)/fig. it's a life-and-death struggle/it's either him or me/ |
2286
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除了 |
除了 |
[[chu2le5]] |
/apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2le5 ta1, shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2le5 Ying1yu3, ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French")/(used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2le5] + A + 就是[jiu4shi4] + B, "either A or B")/ |
432
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撿到籃裡就是菜 |
捡到篮里就是菜 |
[jian3 dao4 lan2 li3 jiu4 shi4 cai4] |
/all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)/ |
4083
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就 |
就 |
[[jiu4]] |
/(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then/(after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after/(same as 就是[jiu4shi4]) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly/only; as little as/as much as; as many as/to approach; to move towards/to undertake; to engage in/(often followed by 著|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of/(of food) to go with/with regard to; concerning/(bound form) to reach; to attain (as in 一蹴而就[yi1cu4er2jiu4])/(pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still .../(pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be .../ |
145
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就是 |
就是 |
[[jiu4shi4]] |
/exactly; precisely/only; simply; just/(used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if/ |
845
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就是說 |
就是说 |
[[jiu4shi4shuo1]] |
/in other words; that is/ |
693
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乃是 |
乃是 |
[nai3 shi4] |
/equivalent to either 是[shi4] or 就是[jiu4 shi4]/ |
4751
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聽風就是雨 |
听风就是雨 |
[ting1 feng1 jiu4 shi4 yu3] |
/lit. to believe in the rain on hearing the wind (idiom)/to believe rumors/to be credulous/ |
5689
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聽見風就是雨 |
听见风就是雨 |
[ting1 jian4 feng1 jiu4 shi4 yu3] |
/lit. on hearing wind, to say rain/to agree uncritically with whatever people say/to parrot other people's words/to chime in with others/ |
6464
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團結就是力量 |
团结就是力量 |
[tuan2 jie2 jiu4 shi4 li4 liang5] |
/unity is strength (revolutionary slogan and popular song of 1943)/ |
4426
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也就是說 |
也就是说 |
[ye3 jiu4 shi4 shuo1] |
/in other words/that is to say/so/thus/ |
6964
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也就是 |
也就是 |
[[ye3 jiu4shi4]] |
/in other words; i.e./ |
608
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2 |
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有奶就是娘 |
有奶就是娘 |
[you3 nai3 jiu4 shi4 niang2] |
/see 有奶便是娘[you3 nai3 bian4 shi4 niang2]/ |
3716
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再 |
再 |
[[zai4]] |
/again; once more; re-/further; beyond this point of time/(before an adjective) more/then (after sth, and not until then)/no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis)/(used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4ze2], 再就是[zai4jiu4shi4] etc)/(literary) to reappear; to reoccur/ |
668
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再就是 |
再就是 |
[[zai4jiu4shi4]] |
/another one is ...; the other thing is .../ |
668
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2 |
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這就是說 |
这就是说 |
[zhe4 jiu4 shi4 shuo1] |
/in other words/that is to say/ |
1909
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