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Chinese meaning
大丈夫当如是
“Big JJ man all like this”
Natural English
A true man should be like this! (Xiang Yu's famous line)
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66 matching expressions
Chinese meaning
大丈夫当如是
“Big JJ man all like this”
Natural English
A true man should be like this! (Xiang Yu's famous line)
Chinese meaning
早悉东方不败的不轨之心
“Find east NB man want to be the CEO”
Natural English
Had long seen through Dongfang Bubai's treacherous ambitions.
Chinese meaning
鼠辈
“Jerry”
Natural English
You rat! You lowly cur!
Chinese meaning
诛灭九族
“Family⁹=0”
Natural English
Wipe out nine generations of his clan (an extreme ancient punishment).
Chinese meaning
丑话说在前头
“MLGB first”
Natural English
Let me say the unpleasant part first — I'll be blunt from the start.
Chinese meaning
不近女色
“I'm a gay”
Natural English
He keeps his distance from women / steers clear of the ladies.
Chinese meaning
葵花宝典
“No jj book”
Natural English
The Sunflower Manual (a secret kung-fu scroll in wuxia lore).
Chinese meaning
没门
“No door”
Natural English
No way! Over my dead body.
Chinese meaning
你问我？我问谁？
“You ask me,I ask who?”
Natural English
You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?
Chinese meaning
哪里哪里
“Where where”
Natural English
Not at all — I'm flattered. (the modest reply to a compliment)
Chinese meaning
卡了
“ka le”
Natural English
It's lagging / frozen / glitching (tech slang).
Chinese meaning
贵宾犬
“VIP dog”
Natural English
A poodle; a toy poodle.
Chinese meaning
天线宝宝
“WI-FI baby”
Natural English
Teletubbies (the children's TV show).
Chinese meaning
三思而后行
“One two three go”
Natural English
Look before you leap — think twice before you act.
Chinese meaning
不用谢
“No thank you!”
Natural English
You're welcome.
Chinese meaning
滴水之恩，当涌泉相报
“You di da di da me，I hua la hua la you!”
Natural English
Repay a single drop of kindness with a gushing spring.
Chinese meaning
一言既出，驷马难追
“One word go，jia jia jia jia”
Natural English
A word once spoken can't be caught even by four horses — a promise is a promise.
Chinese meaning
哭哭哭，就知道哭，好运都被你哭没了！
“Cry cry cry！Just know cry！Luck is gone by u cry！”
Natural English
All you do is cry — you'll cry away every bit of your good luck!
Chinese meaning
旧的不去，新的不来！
“Old one no go,new one no come!”
Natural English
Out with the old, in with the new.
Chinese meaning
三条腿的蛤蟆不好找，两条腿的男人一抓一大把
“Three legs frog can hardly find，two legs man can easily find!”
Natural English
A three-legged frog is hard to find, but two-legged men are a dime a dozen.