三个女人一台戏
sān ge nu:3 rén yī tái xì
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1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
三番五次
sān fān wǔ cì
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1 over and over again (idiom)
上一次当，学一次乖
shàng yī cì dàng , xué yī cì guāi
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1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
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2 once bitten, twice shy
女大不中留
nu:3 dà bù zhōng liú
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1 when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
女大十八变
nu:3 dà shí bā biàn
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1 lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom)
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2 fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was
女子无才便是德
nu:3 zǐ wú cái biàn shì dé
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1 a woman's virtue is to have no talent (idiom)
女扮男装
nu:3 bàn nán zhuāng
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1 (of a woman) to dress as a man (idiom)
女生外向
nu:3 shēng wài xiàng
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1 a woman is born to leave her family (idiom)
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2 a woman's heart is with her husband
好男不跟女斗
hǎo nán bù gēn nu:3 dòu
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1 a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)
少女露笑脸，婚事半成全
shào nu:3 lù xiào liǎn , hūn shì bàn chéng quán
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1 When the girl smiles, the matchmaker's job is half done. (idiom)
几次三番
jǐ cì sān fān
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1 lit. twice then three times (idiom); fig. repeatedly
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2 over and over again
望女成凤
wàng nu:3 chéng fèng
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1 lit. to hope one's daughter becomes a phoenix (idiom)
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2 fig. to hope one's daughter is a success in life
男尊女卑
nán zūn nu:3 bēi
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1 to regard men as superior to women (idiom)
男扮女装
nán bàn nu:3 zhuāng
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1 (of a man) to dress as a woman (idiom)
男欢女爱
nán huān nu:3 ài
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1 passionate love (idiom)
神女有心，襄王无梦
shén nu:3 yǒu xīn , Xiāng Wáng wú mèng
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1 lit. the fairy is willing, but King Xiang doesn't dream (idiom)
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2 (said of a woman's unrequited love)
红男绿女
hóng nán lu:4 nu:3
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1 young people decked out in gorgeous clothes (idiom)
绿女红男
lu:4 nu:3 hóng nán
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1 young people decked out in gorgeous clothes (idiom)
语无伦次
yǔ wú lún cì
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1 incoherent speech
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2 to talk without rhyme or reason (idiom)
逐次近似
zhú cì jìn sì
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1 successive approximate values (idiom)