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Examples:composite number (i.e. not prime, has a factorization)—lit. has a name but no reality (idiom); exists only in name—advance or retreat, each has its rules (idiom from Zhuangzi); many translations are possible—the hero has plans already laid (idiom); have plans ready in advance—a true man has the courage accept the consequences of his actions—lit. wool comes from the sheep's back (idiom); One gets the benefit, but the price has been paid.—Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it—lit. sell hot food freshly cooked; fig. to teach what one has just learned—the Nirvana sutra: every living thing has Buddha nature.—the great Nirvana sutra: every living thing has Buddha nature.—drinking game where one has guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand—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.—lit. tread the green; go for a walk in the spring (when the grass has turned green)—almost everything has a start, but not many things have an end (idiom); don't start sth you can't handle—The issue is in the past, and the situation has changed (idiom).—hate to leave a place where one has lived long—vagrant bird (a migrating bird which has lost its way)—illness that has not attacked the vital organs of the human body—lit. the birds are over, the bow is put away (idiom); fig. get rid of sb once he has served his purpose—luggage that has been checked in (on flight)—a feast which also has a singing performance—a falling leaf returns the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home—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—virtue has its rewards (idiom); one good turn deserves another—fundamental theorem of algebra (every polynomial has a complex root)—However excellent, everyone has his defects.—get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful—one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things—a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical)—evil has its retribution (idiom); suffer the consequences of one's bad deeds—lit. a straight foot has no fear of a crooked shoe—candidate who has not yet passed the county level imperial exam—many fleas, but unconcerned (idiom); no point in worrying about one debt when one has so many others—The ship has docked, the carriage has reached the station.—Good has its reward and evil has its recompense. The payback is just a matter of time—sea of learning, no horizon (idiom); no limits what one still has to learn—has eyes but can't see (idiom); unable or unwilling see the importance of sth—cooking oil that has been used and discarded (and, in China, sometimes illegally recovered from gutters and sewers, reprocessed and sold back restaurants)—grass that has grown on a grave since last year—has sth do with the matter (also used with negative)—age of wine (i.e. how long it has been matured)—lit. the disease has attacked the vitals (idiom); fig. beyond cure—lit. the man has gold under his knees; fig. a man who does not easily kneel in front of others (owing pride or moral integrity)—each goes his own way (idiom); each person has his own life lead—the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken—secure in the knowledge that one has backing—lit. covet Sichuan once Gansu has been seized—giant Amazon snail (Ampullaria gigas spix), that has devastated rice paddies in China since its introduction in the 1980s—oh (interjection indicating that one has just learned sth)—"leftover woman" (successful career woman who has remained single)—the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps [idiom.]—The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. [idiom.]—immediately put into practice something one has just learned [idiom.]—sb. with whom one has a close personal relationship—lit. the timber has been turned ina boat already [idiom.]—lit. the fish and the bear's paw, you can't have both at the same time (idiom, from Mencius); fig. you must choose one or the other—I really want do it, but don't have the resources.—cherish one's unrecognized talents (idiom); to have talent but no opportunity—lit. feel as if one's intestines have been cut short—have no alternative (idiom); compelled by circumstances—Wang Su (c. 195-256), classical scholar of Cao Wei dynasty, believed have forged several classical texts—(humble language) I'm sorry not have come to meet you personally—Now we have come, let's stay and take the rough with the smooth.—a single spark (idiom); an insignificant cause can have a massive effect—the time comes, fortune turns (idiom); have a lucky break—recognize talent and have great respect for it—set rights things which have been thrown into disorder—heaven is jealous of heroic genius (idiom); the great have great hardship contend with—a hundred flowers bloom (idiom); let the arts have free expression—have a fever reaching (a certain temperature)—have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals (proverb)—have one's hair permed with hot curling tongs—have an ulterior motive (idiom); a hidden agenda—wise after the event (idiom); with hindsight, one should have predicted it—if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus [idiom.]—lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have take it home [idiom.]—have one's name go down in history as a byword for infamy [idiom.]—have adulterous relations after marriage (of women) [idiom.]—have never met sb. before (idiom); entirely unacquainted—(slang) have an intimate relationship with sb.—sit side-by-side and have a heart-to-heart talk [idiom.]—lit. have accumulated knowledge and deliver it slowly [idiom.]—lit. see only the other rider's dust and have no hope of catching up [idiom.]—have a face as terrifying as the warrior attendant of the Buddha [idiom.]— |