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Trad. 氾濫
- to overflow; to inundate; to flood
- (fig.) to proliferate unchecked
Trad. 濫交
- to fall into bad company
- to make acquaintances indiscriminately
Trad. 濫竽
- indiscriminately included in company (without any qualification)
- see 濫竽充數|滥竽充数[lan4 yu2 chong1 shu4]
Trad. 濫觴
- lit. floating wine goblets on a stream
- the origin (of some phenomenon)
Trad. 粗製濫造
- to churn out large quantities without regard for quality (idiom); rough and slipshod work
Trad. 泛濫成災
- lit. to flood (idiom)
- fig. rampant
- in plague proportions
Trad. 陳詞濫調
- cliché
- commonplace
- truism
- stereotype
Trad. 濫殺無辜
- willfully slaughter the innocent (idiom)
Trad. 濫砍濫伐
- wanton destruction of forested lands
Trad. 濫竽充數
- lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products
- to masquerade as having an ability
- token member of a group
Trad. 寧缺勿濫
- same as 寧缺毋濫|宁缺毋滥[ning4 que1 wu2 lan4]
Trad. 寧缺毋濫
- better to have nothing (than substandard choice) (idiom); would prefer to go without than accept shoddy option