左边 左邊 zuǒ bian left / the left side / to the left of syn 苏丹人民解放运动民主变革派 蘇丹人民解放運動民主變革派 Sudan People's Liberation Movement-Democratic Change SPLM-Democratic Change 利比里亚新民主替代运动 利比里亞新民主替代運動 New Democratic Alternative for Liberia Movement / New Deal Movement 新政运动 新政運動 New Democratic Alternative for Liberia Movement / New Deal Movement 区内调动 區內調動 internal area movement / theatre movement / intra-theatre movement 战术调动 戰術調動 internal area movement / theatre movement / intra-theatre movement 左手 zuǒ shǒu left hand / left-hand side syn 向左 xiàng zuǒ facing left / leftwards / to the left 落单 落單 luò dān to be on one's own / to be left alone / to be left out 左派 zuǒ pài (political) left / left wing / leftist syn 里手 裡手 lǐ shǒu expert / left-hand side (of a machine) / left-hand side (driver's side) of a vehicle syn 左 zuǒ left / the Left (politics) / east / unorthodox / queer / wrong / differing / opposite / variant of 佐[zuo3] syn 克林顿 克林頓 kè lín dùn Clinton (name) / Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, President 1993-2001 / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician 民主力量同盟 Allied Democratic Forces / Alliance of Democratic Forces 刚果民主共和国东部问题特使 剛果民主共和國東部問題特使 Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo / Special Envoy for eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo 国家国际事务民主研究所 國家國際事務民主研究所 guó jiā guó jì shì wù mín zhǔ yán jiū suǒ National Democratic Institute for International Affairs / National Democratic Institute 国家民主研究所 國家民主研究所 guó jiā mín zhǔ yán jiū suǒ National Democratic Institute for International Affairs / National Democratic Institute 穆斯林民主行动党 穆斯林民主行動黨 Muslim Party of Democratic Action / Party of Democratic Action 达达尼亚民主联盟 達達尼亞民主聯盟 Democratic League of Dardania / Democratic League 民主繁荣党－全国民主党 民主繁榮黨－全國民主黨 Party of Democratic Prosperity - National Democratic Party 埃塞俄比亚人民革命民主阵线 埃塞俄比亞人民革命民主陣線 Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front / Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front 柯林顿 柯林頓 kē lín dùn (Tw) Clinton (name) / Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, president 1993-2001 / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician 橘子民主运动-肯尼亚 Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya 橘子民主运动 Orange Democratic Movement 橘子民主运动肯尼亚党 Orange Democratic Movement Party of Kenya 民主变革人民运动 mín zhǔ biàn gé rén mín yùn dòng People's Movement for Democratic Change 卡萨芒斯民主力量运动 卡薩芒斯民主力量運動 Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance 民主改革运动 民主改革運動 Movement for Democratic Change 联合民主运动 聯合民主運動 United Democratic Movement 争取民主改革运动 爭取民主改革運動 Democratic Movement for Change 群众民主运动 群眾民主運動 Mass Democratic Movement 动静 動靜 dòng jìng (detectable) movement / (sign of) activity / movement and stillness syn 五四运动 五四運動 wǔ sì yùn dòng May Fourth Movement / Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles 一骨碌 yī gū lu with a rolling or twisting movement / in a single movement / in one breath syn 民运 民運 mín yùn civil transport / movement aimed at the masses / democracy movement (abbr.) 五四爱国运动 五四愛國運動 wǔ sì ài guó yùn dòng May Fourth Movement / Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles 构造运动 構造運動 gòu zào yùn dòng tectonic movement / movement of earth's crust 社会主义教育运动 社會主義教育運動 shè huì zhǔ yì jiào yù yùn dòng Socialist Education Movement (1963-66), formal name of the Four Cleanups Movement 四清運動|四清运动[Si4 qing1 Yun4 dong4] 自决运动 zì jué yùn dòng Movement for Self-Determination / Self-Determination Movement 区间调动 區間調動 inter-area movement / strategic movement 战略调动 戰略調動 inter-area movement / strategic movement 索马里南部民族运动－比安纳尔抵抗运动 索馬里南部民族運動－比安納爾抵抗運動 Southern Somali National Movement-Biennal Resistance Movement 毛里塔尼亚伊斯兰运动 毛里塔尼亞伊斯蘭運動 Hareke Islamiya Al Mauritania / Mauritanian Islamic Movement / HASSEM Movement HASSEM运动 HASSEM運動 Hareke Islamiya Al Mauritania / Mauritanian Islamic Movement / HASSEM Movement 禁止训练和调动 禁止訓練和調動 training and movement ban / movement and training ban 运镜 運鏡 yùn jìng (cinematography) camera movement (tracking, panning, zooming etc) / to execute a camera movement 左右 zuǒ yòu left and right / nearby / approximately / attendant / to control / to influence syn 剩下 shèng xià to remain / to be left over syn 提取 tí qǔ to withdraw (money) / to collect (left luggage) / to extract / to refine syn 左侧 左側 zuǒ cè left side syn 残留 殘留 cán liú to remain / to be left over / residual / remnant / residue syn 精光 jīng guāng nothing left (money, food etc) / all finished / bright and shiny / radiant / glorious syn 殆尽 殆盡 dài jìn almost exhausted / nearly depleted / practically nothing left syn 荒芜 荒蕪 huāng wú left to return to unchecked growth / overgrown / grown wild syn 三军 三軍 sān jūn (in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force syn 左岸 zuǒ àn Left Bank (in Paris) 左翼 zuǒ yì left-wing (political) syn 扬长而去 揚長而去 yáng cháng ér qù to swagger off / to walk off (or drive off etc) without a second thought for those left behind 左转 左轉 zuǒ zhuǎn to turn left 左面 zuǒ miàn left side syn 哑口无言 啞口無言 yǎ kǒu wú yán dumbstruck and unable to reply (idiom) / left speechless / at a loss for words syn 左右手 zuǒ yòu shǒu left and right hands / (fig.) capable assistant / right-hand man syn 无计可施 無計可施 wú jì kě shī no strategy left to try (idiom) / at one's wit's end / at the end of one's tether / powerless syn 不甘寂寞 bù gān jì mò unwilling to remain lonely or idle / unwilling to be left out syn 歇后语 歇後語 xiē hòu yǔ anapodoton (a saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part) 春联 春聯 chūn lián Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side) syn 左顾右盼 左顧右盼 zuǒ gù yòu pàn glancing to left and right (idiom) / to look all around syn 左上 zuǒ shàng upper left 王明 wáng míng Wang Ming (1904-1974), Soviet-trained Chinese communist, Comintern and Soviet stooge and left adventurist in the 1930s, fell out with Mao and moved to Soviet Union from 1956 余力 餘力 yú lì energy left over (to do sth else) syn 汪精卫 汪精衛 wāng jīng wèi Wang Ching-wei (1883-1944), left-wing Guomingdang politician, subsequently Japanese collaborator 无依无靠 無依無靠 wú yī wú kào no one to rely on (idiom) / on one's own / orphaned / left to one's own devices syn 左撇子 zuǒ piě zi left-hander 左首 zuǒ shǒu left-hand side syn 潜台词 潛臺詞 qián tái cí unspoken dialogue in a play, left for the audience to infer / subtext / (fig.) implicit assertion 残留物 殘留物 cán liú wù remnant / residue / material left over 单眼 單眼 dān yǎn ommatidium (single component of insect's compound eye) / one eye (i.e. one's left or right eye) 遗志 遺志 yí zhì the mission in life of a deceased person, left to others to carry on 边角料 邊角料 biān jiǎo liào scrap / bits and pieces left over 阿罗汉 阿羅漢 ā luó hàn arhat (Sanskrit) / a holy man who has left behind all earthly desires and concerns and attained nirvana (Buddhism) 博古 bó gǔ Bo Gu (1907-1946), Soviet-trained Chinese Communist, journalist and propagandist, 1930s Left adventurist, subsequently rehabilitated, killed in air crash 鸡犬不宁 雞犬不寧 jī quǎn bù níng lit. not even the chickens and dogs are left undisturbed (idiom) / fig. great commotion / pandemonium syn 左倾 左傾 zuǒ qīng left-leaning / progressive 不到黄河心不死 不到黃河心不死 bù dào huáng hé xīn bù sǐ lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom) / fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal / to keep going while some hope is left syn 鳏寡孤独 鰥寡孤獨 guān guǎ gū dú lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless / fig. people with no one left to rely on syn 茬口 chá kǒu harvested land left for rotation / an opportunity 寄存处 寄存處 jì cún chù warehouse / temporary store / left-luggage office / cloak-room 撇 piě to throw / to cast / left-slanting downward brush stroke (calligraphy) syn 璋 zhāng jade tablet used in ceremonies, shaped like the left or right half of a "gui" 圭[gui1], also given to male infants to play with 馘 guó (literary) to cut off the left ear of a slain enemy / the severed ear of a slain enemy 聝 guó cut off the left ear of the slain 一辞莫赞 一辭莫贊 yī cí mò zàn left speechless by sth perfect (idiom) 六亲无靠 六親無靠 liù qīn wú kào orphaned of all one's immediate relatives (idiom) / no one to rely on / left to one's own devices syn 左右逢源 zuǒ yòu féng yuán lit. to strike water right and left (idiom) / fig. to turn everything into gold / to have everything going one's way / to benefit from both sides syn 弹尽粮绝 彈盡糧絕 dàn jìn liáng jué out of ammunition and no food left (idiom) / in desperate straits syn 无言可对 無言可對 wú yán kě duì unable to reply (idiom) / left speechless / at a loss for words 王顾左右而言他 王顧左右而言他 wáng gù zuǒ yòu ér yán tā the king looked left and right and then talked of other things / to digress from the topic of discussion (idiom) 纤悉无遗 纖悉無遺 xiān xī wú yí detailed and nothing left out (idiom) / meticulous and comprehensive / not missing an iota 所剩无几 所剩無機 suǒ shèng wú jǐ there is not much left syn 