Qilian Mountains in Qinghai
Qilian, a county in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海北藏族自治州[hǎi běi zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Qinghai
Junlian, a county in Yibin City 宜宾市[yí bīn shì], Sichuan
Liancheng, a county in Longyan City 龙岩市[lóng yán shì], Fujian
Lianshan, a district of Huludao City 葫芦岛市[hú lú dǎo shì], Liaoning
Lianzhou, a county-level city in Qingyuan City 清远市[qīng yuǎn shì], Guangdong
Lianping, a county in Heyuan City 河源市[hé yuán shì], Guangdong
1. to pull up by the roots2. to uproot
1. Lianjiang, a county in Fuzhou City 福州市[fú zhōu shì], Fujian2. Lienchiang County, the official name of the Matsu Islands 马祖列岛[mǎ zǔ liè dǎo], a county of the ROC (based in Taiwan)
coordinated sequence of strategic moves
1. successive offenses2. serial crime
communicating vessels (in scientific experiment)
1. pattern matching (puzzle game)2. matching (type of test question in which presented items are to be paired up)
Lianyun, a district of Lianyungang City 连云港市[lián yún gǎng shì], Jiangsu
Ma Lianliang (1901-1966), Beijing opera star, one of the Four great beards 四大须生
1. ravaged by successive wars2. war-torn3. war-ridden
1. to whine on for days (idiom)2. to endlessly grumble complaints3. incessant whining
Vertical and Horizontal Alliance, opposing stratagems devised by the School of Diplomacy 纵横家[zòng héng jiā] during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
1. to tie the knot (idiom)2. to get married
1. a bunch of nonsense2. verbose and rambling
cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war
Qilian Mountains (formerly Richthofen Range), dividing Qinghai and Gansu provinces
1. needlework2. sewing and mending
lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another
1. to act from inside in coordination with attackers outside2. attacked from both inside and out
1. one after the other2. in succession (idiom)
1. (old) to rank first in the imperial examinations at the provincial capital, the national capital and the palace successively2. (sports etc) to achieve three successes in a row (three matches in a row, three goals in a match etc)
1. to bear joint responsibility for sth2. joint liability (law)
1. both principal and interest2. capital plus profit
连滚带爬 連滾帶爬 lián gǔn dài pá HSK 7–9 (idiom) stumbling and crawling; scrambling; frantically trying to escape
(idiom) continuous; unending
1. lit. reins together and carriages level (idiom); keeping exactly abreast of one another2. running neck and neck
Lianyungang, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江苏省[jiāng sū shěng]
1. to tell one lie after another (idiom)2. to talk nonsense3. bogus story
Erenhot, a county-level city in Xilingol League 锡林郭勒盟[xī lín guō lè méng], Inner Mongolia
Wudalianchi, a county-level city in Heihe City 黑河市[hēi hé shì], Heilongjiang
哑巴吃黄连 啞巴吃黃連 yǎ ba chī huáng lián 1. no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)2. also written 哑巴吃黄莲3. (often precedes 有苦说不出[yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū])
大连理工大学 大連理工大學 dà lián lǐ gōng dà xué Dalian University of Technology
连南瑶族自治县 連南瑤族自治縣 lián nán yáo zú zì zhì xiàn Liannan Yao Autonomous County, in Qingyuan City 清远市[qīng yuǎn shì], Guangdong