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Examples:you can run this time, but you'll have come back—can't reach the high or accept the low (idiom); not good enough for a high post, but too proud take a low one—lit. has a name but no reality (idiom); exists only in name—hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions—goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.—start on virtue but give up (idiom); to fail to carry things through—(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers—goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.—the appearance of unity, but divided at heart (idiom); seeming harmony belies underlying disagreement—I really want do it, but don't have the resources.—day that is named but not numbered (on ethnic calendar)—lit. seek but fail get (idiom); fig. exactly what one’s been looking for—treasure knife does not age (idiom); old but still vigorous—high in score but low in ability (as a result of teaching the test)—sweet words and honeyed phrases (idiom); elegant but insincere words—know the first, but not know the second (idiom); only partial information—(used deprecatingly, but sometimes also as a term of endearment)—many fleas, but unconcerned (idiom); no point in worrying about one debt when one has so many others—Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song—fig. impressive in appearance but lacking in substance—has eyes but can't see (idiom); unable or unwilling see the importance of sth—lit. knife mouth but heart of bean curd; sharp tongue concealing a caring heart—lit. occupy a latrine but not shit (proverb)—woven fabric with single colored woof but many-colored warp—the heart desperately wants understand how to do sth but cannot [idiom.]—impersonate sb but gain the opposite of the desired effect [idiom.]—a poor light but nevertheless inextinguishable [idiom.]—"break-up agent", person who acts for sb. who wishes terminate a relationship but does not have the heart to do so—lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best [idiom.]— |