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spoon / ladle / CL:把[ba3] / abbr. for 公勺[gong1 shao2], centiliter (unit of volume)

white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera

(taboo curse) damn it! / fucking

seems as if / rather like / Taiwan pr. [si4 de5]

and so on / and what not

Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia

see 一語中的|一语中的[yi1 yu3 zhong4 di4]

(dialect) not that great / not up to much / nothing special

a boneheaded teammate can do you more harm than the most formidable opponent (idiom)

not to be trifled with / to be reckoned with

to hit the target / to hit the nail on the head

What brings you here? (idiom)

drat / frick / (euphemistic variant of 他媽的|他妈的[ta1 ma1 de5])

same as 他媽的|他妈的[ta1 ma1 de5]

lit. you hit the high road, I'll cross the log bridge (idiom) / fig. you go your way, I'll go mine / you do it your way, I'll do it mine

to get tough / to use force

bogus / ersatz / fake / mock / phony

lit. the barefooted people are not afraid of those who wear shoes (idiom) / fig. the poor, who have nothing to lose, do not fear those in power

see 一條繩上的螞蚱|一条绳上的蚂蚱[yi1 tiao2 sheng2 shang4 de5 ma4 zha5]

lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom) / fig. people who are in it together for better or worse / people who will sink or swim together

to hit the target with a single shot / to say something spot on (idiom)

to hit the mark with a comment (idiom) / to say sth spot on