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Examples:where there's a start, there's a finish (idiom); finish once one starts sth—can't reach the high or accept the low (idiom); not good enough for a high post, but too proud take a low one—light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); of no consequence one person, a matter of life or death to another—Ceaseless pain (Sanskrit: Avici), one of the Buddhist hells—If one does not know any better, one cannot be held responsible—The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering.—resign oneself to part with what one treasures—burn the books and bury alive the Confucian scholars (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC)—One must live with the consequences of one's actions.—division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor—return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as a result of failing to get good enough results to progress to one's desired higher-level school—reduced fraction (e.g. one half for three sixths)—make a clear difference between what one likes and what one hates—lit. ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful—one can only come across such things serendipitously—mountains on one side and water on the other—one's affiliation (i.e. the organization one is affiliated with)—Zhu Hongdeng, one of the leaders of the Boxer Rebellion—(in former times) what one is allowed wear depending on social status—slap with one hand and then the other, in quick succession—hard forget even after one's teeth fall out (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives—one who can correct a misread or misspelt character and thus be your master—alternate angles (where one line meets two parallel lines)—formidable renown gives one authority over the whole country—Kaxabu or Kahabu, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan—the Baima or White horse temple in Luoyang, one of the earliest Buddhist temples in China—shaking one the core (idiom); extremely disturbing—János Bolyai (1802-1860), one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry—Tsou or Cou, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan—(literary) be promoted more than one grade or rank at a time—orphaned of all one's immediate relatives (idiom); no one rely on—conform to what one perceives to be the majority view—work as one (idiom); united in a concerted effort—Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology—period during which one can prosecute or sue sb—be kind and love one another (idiom); bound by deep emotions—Pazeh, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan—sth. one can predict without being a clairvoyant—classifier for long, narrow, flexible objects such as fish, dogs, pants; for roads and rivers; for human lives; in the expression: one heart, meaning working together for a common goal—lit. not stop until one reaches the Yellow River [idiom.]— |