1 abbr. for 哈薩克斯坦|哈萨克斯坦[Hā sà kè sī tǎn], Kazakhstan

2 abbr. for 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[Hā ěr bīn], Harbin

1 (onom.) laughing out loud

1 to pull

2 to play (a bowed instrument)

3 to drag

4 to draw

5 to chat

1 Iraq

1 idiot

2 fool

1 lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom)

2 fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen

1 lit. to wave a banner as if it were a tiger skin (idiom)

2 fig. to borrow sb's prestige

3 to take the name of a great cause as a shield

1 to bear the burden of a household (idiom); encumbered by a family

2 tied down by family obligations

1 to let go of the big prize while grabbing at trifles (idiom)

1 to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently