势如破竹 勢如破竹 shì rú pò zhú like a hot knife through butter (idiom) / with irresistible force syn 不可抗拒 bù kě kàng jù act of God / force majeure (law) / irresistible (idiom) 势不可当 勢不可當 shì bù kě dāng impossible to resist (idiom) / an irresistible force syn 不使用或威胁使用武力 bù shǐ yòng huò wēi xié shǐ yòng wǔ lì non-use of force or threat of use of force / non-use of force or threat of force 爱不释手 愛不釋手 ài bù shì shǒu (idiom) to like sth so much that one is reluctant to put it down / to find sth utterly irresistible syn 大势所趋 大勢所趨 dà shì suǒ qū general trend / irresistible trend syn 遏止 è zhǐ to hold back / to check (i.e. to stop sb's advance) / to resist / esp. with negative, irresistible, unstoppable etc syn 不能抵抗 bù néng dǐ kàng irresistible 向心力 xiàng xīn lì centripetal force / (fig.) cohering force / cohesion / team spirit 强扭的瓜不甜 強扭的瓜不甜 qiǎng niǔ de guā bù tián 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) / fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen 推力 tuī lì driving force / impetus / thrust (of a boat or airplane engine) / repelling force 动因 動因 dòng yīn motivation / moving force / underlying force / agent 硬碰硬 yìng pèng yìng to meet force with force / painstaking syn 横征暴敛 橫征暴斂 héng zhēng bào liǎn to tax by force and extort levies (idiom) / to screw taxes out of the people by force syn 常备军 常備軍 standing force / standing army / permanent force 涓埃之力 juān āi zhī lì negligible force (idiom) / tiny force 内营力 內營力 nèi yíng lì internal force / endogenic force 力征 lì zhēng by force / to conquer by force of arms / power 炁 qì (Daoism) Qi / vital force / life force (variant of 氣|气[qi4]) 国际稳定部队 guó jì wěn dìng bù duì International Stabilization Force (Iraq, Liberia) International Stabilisation Force (Timor-Leste) 联合国青春期少女问题机构间工作队 United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Adolescent Girls / Inter-Agency Task Force on Adolescent Girls 落实发展权问题高级别工作队 high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development / High-Level Task Force on the Right to Development 清理结束工作队 qīng lǐ jié shù gōng zuò duì liquidation task force / mission liquidation task force 超视距部队 chāo shì jù bù duì over-the-horizon force / OTH force 非洲区域生殖健康工作队 非洲區域生殖健康工作隊 fēi zhōu qū yù shēng zhí jiàn kāng gōng zuò duì African Regional Reproductive Health Task Force / Regional Reproductive Health Task Force 驻伊拉克多国部队 駐伊拉克多國部隊 zhù yī lā kè duō guó bù duì multinational force in Iraq / Multinational Force 临时特遣舰队 臨時特遣艦隊 interim naval task force / Interim Maritime Task Force 数字机会工作队 數字機會工作隊 Digital Opportunities Task Force / DOT Force 伊图里旅 伊圖里旅 yī tú lǐ lǚ Ituri Brigade Force / Task Force 2 欧盟领导的军事行动 歐盟領導的軍事行動 European Union-led peacekeeping force / EU-led force 初级教育和两性平等问题第3工作队 初級教育和兩性平等問題第3工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 3 on Primary Education and Gender Equality / Task Force 3 on Primary Education and Gender Equality 驻科索沃国际安全部队 zhù kē suǒ wò guó jì ān quán bù duì International Security Force in Kosovo / Kosovo Force 驻科索沃部队 zhù kē suǒ wò bù duì International Security Force in Kosovo / Kosovo Force 部队总部邮局 部隊總部郵局 bù duì zǒng bù yóu jú force base post office / force BPO / base post office 开放和有规则的贸易制度第9工作队 開放和有規則的貿易制度第9工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 9 on Open, Rule-Based Trading Systems / Task Force 9 on Open, Rule-Based Trading Systems 改善贫民窟居民生活问题第8工作队 改善貧民窟居民生活問題第8工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 8 on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers / Task Force 8 on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers 资源动员的简化和统一工作队 資源動員的簡化和統一工作隊 simplification and harmonization task force on resource mobilization / simplification and harmonization task force 简化和统一工作队 簡化和統一工作隊 simplification and harmonization task force on resource mobilization / simplification and harmonization task force 水和卫生问题千年项目第7工作队 水和衛生問題千年項目第7工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 7 on Water and Sanitation / Task Force 7 on Water and Sanitation 水和卫生问题第7工作队 水和衛生問題第7工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 7 on Water and Sanitation / Task Force 7 on Water and Sanitation 贫穷和经济发展问题千年项目第1工作队 貧窮和經濟發展問題千年項目第1工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 1 on Poverty and Economic Development / Task Force 1 on Poverty and Economic Development 贫穷和经济发展问题第1工作队 貧窮和經濟發展問題第1工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 1 on Poverty and Economic Development / Task Force 1 on Poverty and Economic Development 饥饿问题千年项目第2工作队 饑餓問題千年項目第2工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 2 on Hunger / Task Force 2 on Hunger 饥饿问题第2工作队 饑餓問題第2工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 2 on Hunger / Task Force 2 on Hunger 妇幼保健问题千年项目第4工作队 婦幼保健問題千年項目第4工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 4 on Child Health and Maternal Health / Task Force 4 on Child Health and Maternal Health 妇幼保健问题第4工作队 婦幼保健問題第4工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 4 on Child Health and Maternal Health / Task Force 4 on Child Health and Maternal Health 采购调查工作队 采購調查工作隊 Procurement Investigations Task Force / Procurement Task Force 采购问题工作队 采購問題工作隊 Procurement Investigations Task Force / Procurement Task Force 科技革新问题千年项目第10工作队 科技革新問題千年項目第10工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 10 on Science, Technology and Innovation / Task Force 10 on Science, Technology and Innovation 科技革新第10工作队 科技革新第10工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 10 on Science, Technology and Innovation / Task Force 10 on Science, Technology and Innovation 环境可持续性问题千年项目第6工作队 環境可持續性問題千年項目第6工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 6 on Environmental Sustainability / Task Force 6 on Environmental Sustainability 环境可持续性问题第6工作队 環境可持續性問題第6工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 6 on Environmental Sustainability / Task Force 6 on Environmental Sustainability 信息和通信技术工作队 信息和通信技術工作隊 Information and Communication Technologies Task Force / ICT Task Force 信通技术工作队 信通技術工作隊 Information and Communication Technologies Task Force / ICT Task Force 南美洲反洗钱金融行动工作组 南美洲反洗錢金融行動工作組 South American Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering / South American Financial Action Task Force 南美洲金融行动工作组 南美洲金融行動工作組 South American Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering / South American Financial Action Task Force 军民合作工作队 軍民合作工作隊 Civil-Military Cooperation Task Force / CIMIC Task Force 偏向力 deviating force / Coriolis force 参加劳动队伍年龄 參加勞動隊伍年齡 age at entry into the labour force / age at accession to the labour force 联合国执行部队 聯合國執行部隊 United Nations implementation force / UN implementation force 联合国脱离接触观察员部队指挥官 聯合國脫離接觸觀察員部隊指揮官 Force Commander, United Nations Disengagement Observer Force 开花 開花 kāi huā to bloom / to blossom / to flower / (fig.) to burst / to split open / (fig.) to burst with joy / (fig.) to spring up everywhere / to flourish syn 热腾腾 熱騰騰 rè téng téng steaming hot / (fig.) bustling / hectic / (fig.) excited / stirred up / (fig.) created only a short time before / freshly minted / hot off the press / (coll.) also pr. [re4 teng1 teng1] syn 鬼扯脚 鬼扯腳 guǐ chě jiǎo lit. ghost pulls your leg / involuntary tug of muscles / fig. very unlucky / fig. argumentative / fig. can't help doing it 外溢 wài yì (of liquid) to spill out / to overflow / (of gas) to leak out / (fig.) to spill over / to spread (to new areas) / (fig.) (of wealth etc) to drain / to flow outward (esp. overseas) / (fig.) (of talent) to show / to be revealed 惯性 慣性 guàn xìng (physics) inertia / (fig.) force of habit / tendency to do things in the accustomed way / habitual 催生 cuī shēng to pressure a younger relative to hurry up and have a baby / (obstetrics) to induce labor / to expedite childbirth / (fig.) to be a driving force in bringing sth into existence syn 拉力 lā lì pulling force / (fig.) allure / (materials testing) tensile strength / (loanword) rally syn 主力军 主力軍 zhǔ lì jūn main force (military) / (fig.) the group or element with the most impact / mainstay / main cohort 生力军 生力軍 shēng lì jūn fresh troops / (fig.) lifeblood / new force 冲力 衝力 chōng lì momentum (the force exhibited by a moving body) / (fig.) momentum (capacity for progressive development) 强弩之末 強弩之末 qiáng nǔ zhī mò lit. an arrow at the end of its flight (idiom) / fig. spent force syn 恶浪 惡浪 è làng violent wave / fierce billow / fig. depraved force 先礼后兵 先禮後兵 xiān lǐ hòu bīng lit. peaceful measures before using force (idiom) / fig. diplomacy before violence / jaw-jaw is better than war-war 定海神针 定海神針 dìng hǎi shén zhēn another name for 金箍棒[jin1 gu1 bang4] / (fig.) stabilizing force 暴风圈 暴風圈 bào fēng quān (meteorology) storm area (area exposed to winds of force 7 or higher during a typhoon) / (fig.) area particularly badly affected by a crisis 目光 mù guāng gaze / (fig.) attention / expression in one's eyes / look / (lit. and fig.) sight / vision syn 味道 wèi dao flavor / taste / (fig.) feeling (of ...) / sense (of ...) / hint (of ...) / (fig.) interest / delight / (dialect) smell / odor syn 塑造 sù zào to model / to mold / (fig.) to create (a character, a market, an image etc) / (fig.) (literature) to portray (in words) syn 规矩 規矩 guī ju lit. compass and set square / fig. established standard / rule / customs / practices / fig. upright and honest / well-behaved syn 发烧 發燒 fā shāo to have a high temperature (from illness) / to have a fever / (fig.) to be fascinated with / to obsess over / (fig.) flourishing / thriving / popular syn 挂钩 掛鉤 guà gōu to couple / to link / to hook together / (fig.) (preceded by 與|与[yu3] + {entity}) to establish contact (with {entity}) / (Tw) to collude (with {entity}) / (fig.) to link (marketing efforts with production etc) / to peg (welfare payments to inflation etc) / to tie (remuneration to performance etc) / hook (on which to hang sth) / latch hook / coupling syn 架空 jià kōng to build (a hut etc) on stilts / to install (power lines etc) overhead / (fig.) unfounded / impractical / (fig.) to make sb a mere figurehead syn 出轨 出軌 chū guǐ to be derailed / to go off the rails / (fig.) to overstep the bounds / (fig.) to have an extramarital affair 鱼肉 魚肉 yú ròu flesh of fish / fish and meat / (fig.) victims of oppression / (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up) syn 封顶 封頂 fēng dǐng to put a roof (on a building) / to cap the roof (finishing a building project) / fig. to put a ceiling (on spending, prize, ambition etc) / to top off / fig. to reach the highest point (of growth, profit, interest rates) / to stop growing (of plant bud or branch) 中招 zhòng zhāo (martial arts) to get hit / to get taken down / (fig.) to get infected (disease or computer virus) / (fig.) to fall for sb's trap / to be taken in 小白兔 xiǎo bái tù small white rabbit / (fig.) innocent and naive person / (fig.) (slang) breast 出笼 出籠 chū lóng (of food) to be taken out of the steamer / (fig.) (often used with 紛紛|纷纷[fen1 fen1]) (of products, information etc) to appear / to emerge / to come out / (fig.) to dump / to inundate the market 松柏 sōng bǎi pine and cypress / fig. chaste and undefiled / fig. tomb syn 搅和 攪和 jiǎo huo to mix / to blend / (fig.) to spoil / to mess up things / (fig.) to run around with (sb) / to get involved with / to mix (with other people) syn 脱胎 脫胎 tuō tāi to be born / (fig.) to develop out of sth else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc) / (fig.) to shed one's body (to be reborn) / bodiless (e.g. lacquerware) 走后门 走後門 zǒu hòu mén (lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings / to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex syn 瞻前顾后 瞻前顧後 zhān qián gù hòu lit. to look forward and back (idiom) / fig. to consider carefully / to weigh the pros and cons / fig. to be overcautious and indecisive syn 遮羞布 zhē xiū bù loincloth / (fig.) fig leaf / CL:塊|块[kuai4] syn 矮化 ǎi huà (plant pathology) to become stunted / (horticulture) to dwarf / to reduce in size (by pruning, breeding etc) / (fig.) to diminish the status of / to disparage / (fig.) to downplay 熔断 熔斷 róng duàn (of fuse wire) to melt / to blow / (fig.) to halt stock trading / (fig.) to suspend an airline from operating flights on a given route (as a penalty, e.g. for bringing in more than a specified number of passengers who test positive for COVID) syn 浊流 濁流 zhuó liú turbid flow / muddy waters / fig. a contemptible person / fig. corrupt or disgraceful social trends syn 