Chinese | English |
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見 verb | look [looked, looking, looks](to try to see) |
見上 phrase | vide supra(see above) |
見下 phrase | vide infra(see below) |
見仁見智 phrase | your mileage may vary(this is just my opinion, see also: there's no accounting for taste) |
見伍姑娘 verb | jerk off(to masturbate) |
見外 verb | stand on ceremony(act in a formal manner) |
見微知著 verb | see the forest for the trees(to discern overall pattern from details) |
見效 verb | bear fruit(succeed in some task) |
見樹不見林 verb | see the forest for the trees(to be overwhelmed by detail to the point where it obscures the overall situation) |
見機行事 verb | play by ear(do by guessing) |
見紅 /jiànhóng/ noun | show [shows](bloody mucus discharge leading up to labor) |
見習員 noun | trainee [trainees](someone being formally trained in a workplace) |
見解 noun | opinion [opinions](thought a person has formed about a topic) |
見證人 noun | witness [witnesses](one who has a personal knowledge of something) |
見識 noun | knowledge [knowledges](fact of knowing about something; understanding, familiarity with information) |
見閻王 verb | give up the ghost(to die) |
見面 verb | meet(to come face to face with by accident; to encounter) rendezvous(meet at an agreed time and place) |
一會兒見 interjection | see you soon(goodbye) |
一會兒見 phrase | see you(see you later) |
一見 noun | look [looks](action of looking) |
一見傾心 noun | love at first sight(an instantaneous attraction) |
一見生情 noun | love at first sight(an instantaneous attraction) |
一見鍾情 noun | love at first sight(an instantaneous attraction) |
一針見血 verb | hit the nail on the head(identify something exactly) |
不可見光燈 noun | black light(light bulb that emits ultraviolet light) |
不可預見的 adjective | unforeseeable(incapable of being foreseen) |
不要見怪 phrase | no offensephrase |
不見不散 phrase | be there or be square(encourage someone to attend an event) |
人殊意异 /rén shū yì yì/; 仁者見仁,智者見智 phrase | there's no accounting for taste(people's tastes differ) |
偏見 noun | bigotry [bigotries](intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) prejudice [prejudices](adverse judgement formed beforehand) slant [slants](bias) |
先見 noun | foresight [foresights](ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future) |
先見之明 preposition | ahead of one's time(in advance of commonly accepted ideas) |
先見之明 noun | farsightedness(quality of being considerate about what might happen in the future) foresight [foresights](ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future) |
公眾意見 noun | public opinion [public opinions](opinion of the public) |
再次見面 noun | reunion [reunions](the process or act) |
再見 interjection | bye(short for goodbye, see also: goodbye) |