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- to decorate
- to embellish
- to repair
- to build
- to write
- to cultivate
- to study
- to take (a class)
Trad. 蘇修
- Soviet revisionism (abbr. for 蘇聯修正主義|苏联修正主义[Su1 lian2 xiu1 zheng4 zhu3 yi4])
Trad. 選修
- (at a school) to take as an elective
- an elective
- elective (subject)
- to repair (sth broken); to restore (sth damaged)
- to establish friendly relations with
- (literary) to do meritorious deeds
Trad. 修復
- to restore; to renovate
- (computing) to repair (a corrupted file etc)
- to spruce up; to renovate; to tend (a garden); to groom (one's hair); to finish (a rough surface); to trim (a lawn); to touch up (a photo)
- to practice Taoism; to cultivate the true self through spiritual exercises
Trad. 修羅
- (Indian mythology) Asuras – powerful, malevolent beings who oppose the gods
- to devote oneself to spiritual development (esp. Buddhism or Daoism)
- to devote oneself to perfecting one's art or craft
- voicing (adjustment of timbre, loudness etc of organ or other musical instrument)
Trad. 修飾
- to decorate
- to adorn
- to dress up
- to polish (a written piece)
- to qualify or modify (grammar)
Trad. 永修縣
- Yongxiu, a county in Jiujiang City 九江市[Jiu3 jiang1 Shi4], Jiangxi
Trad. 李修賢
- Danny Lee Sau-Yin (1953-), Hong Kong actor and director
Trad. 歐陽修
- Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072), Northern Song dynasty prose writer and historian
Trad. 修文縣
- Xiuwen, a county in Guiyang City 貴陽市|贵阳市[Gui4 yang2 Shi4], Guizhou
Trad. 修武縣
- Xiuwu, a county in Jiaozuo City 焦作市[Jiao1 zuo4 Shi4], Henan
- to build or repair water conservancy infrastructure (e.g. canals, reservoirs etc)
Trad. 修水縣
- Xiushui, a county in Jiujiang City 九江市[Jiu3 jiang1 Shi4], Jiangxi
Trad. 修羅場
- (Indian mythology) battlefield where Asuras 修羅|修罗[xiu1 luo2] fought the gods; (fig.) a scene of cruelty and carnage; (slang) emotionally charged confrontation (esp. one involving a love triangle)
Trad. 托缽修會
- mendicant religious order in Catholicism
- Franciscan order
Trad. 內外兼修
- (of a person) beautiful inside and out
Trad. 重修舊好
- to make friends again
- to renew old cordial relations
Trad. 奧迪修斯
- Odysseus, hero of Homer's Odyssey
Trad. 不修邊幅
- not care about one's appearance (idiom)
- slovenly in dress and manner
Trad. 修心養性
- to cultivate the heart and nurture the character (idiom); to improve oneself by meditation
- to achieve Buddhahood through one's efforts and insight
- to obtain a positive outcome after sustained efforts
- to come to fruition
- Thucydides (c. 455 - c. 400 BC), Greek historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War
Trad. 修煉成仙
- lit. to practice austerities to become a Daoist immortal
- practice makes perfect
Trad. 克勞修斯
- Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888), German physicist and mathematician
Trad. 凈心修身
- to have an untroubled heart and behave morally (idiom)
- old and in a state of disrepair (idiom)
- dilapidated
Trad. 鬥私批修
- fight self-interest and repudiate revisionism (Cultural Revolution slogan)
Trad. 修訂歷史
- revision history (of a document, web page etc)
Trad. 後置修飾語
- postmodifier (grammar)
Trad. 前置修飾語
- premodifier (grammar)
Trad. 郇山隱修會
- Priory of Zion (fictional masonic order)
Trad. 普羅米修斯
- Prometheus, a Titan god of fire in Greek mythology
- Thucydides trap (theory that war results when a dominant established power fears the rise of a rival power)
Trad. 明修棧道，暗渡陳倉
- lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu)
- fig. to feign one thing while doing another
- to cheat under cover of a diversion