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Trad. 良圖
- good plan
- right strategy
- to take one's time forming the right decision
Trad. 從良
- (of a slave or servant) to be given one's freedom
- (of a prostitute) to marry and leave one's trade
- positive (in its effect)
- leading to good consequences
- virtuous
- (medicine) benign (tumor etc)
Trad. 良藥
- good medicine
- panacea
- fig. a good solution
- a good remedy (e.g. to a social problem)
Trad. 宜良縣
- Yiliang county in Kunming 昆明[Kun1 ming2], Yunnan
Trad. 張學良
- Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army
- Mt Mengliang in Mengyin county 蒙陰縣|蒙阴县[Meng2 yin1 xian4], Linyi 臨沂|临沂[Lin2 yi2], Shandong
Trad. 丁韙良
- William A.P. Martin (1827-1916), American missionary who lived 62 years in China between 1850 and 1916, and helped found many Chinese colleges, first president of Peking University
Trad. 良慶區
- Liangqing, a district of Nanning City 南寧市|南宁市[Nan2 ning2 Shi4], Guangxi
Trad. 彝良縣
- Yiliang, a county in Zhaotong City 昭通市[Zhao1 tong1 Shi4], Yunnan
Trad. 馬連良
- Ma Lianliang (1901-1966), Beijing opera star, one of the Four great beards 四大鬚生|四大须生
Trad. 陳德良
- Tran Duc Luong (1937-), former president of Vietnam
- Chu Suiliang (596-659), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家[Tang2 chu1 Si4 Da4 jia1]
- Varyag, former Soviet aircraft carrier purchased by China and renamed 遼寧號|辽宁号[Liao2 ning2 Hao4]
Trad. 高良薑
- Thai ginger
- lesser galangale (Kaempferia galanga)
- (Tang dynasty) official responsible for tracking down and arresting lawbreakers
- Hui Liangyu (1944-) PRC Hui national career politician from Guilin, background in economics, politburo member 2002-2012, deputy chair of State Council 2003-2013
Trad. 閻良區
- Yanliang District of Xi’an 西安市[Xi1 an1 Shi4], Shaanxi
Trad. 坐失良機
- to sit and waste a good opportunity (idiom); to lose the chance
Trad. 營養不良
- malnutrition
- undernourishment
- deficiency disease
- dystrophy
- woman from a respectable family
- respectable woman
- expert craft from hard practice (idiom); hard-won skill
- A masterpiece demands suffering.
Trad. 良師益友
- good teacher and helpful friend (idiom); mentor
- to have fed one's conscience to the dogs (idiom)
- devoid of conscience
- not totally heartless
- still having a shred of conscience
Trad. 良心發現
- (idiom) to develop a conscience about sth after previously being unconcerned (usu. resulting in feeling remorse or making amends)
Trad. 良性循環
- virtuous cycle (i.e. positive feedback loop)
- Liangzhu (c. 3400-2250 BC), neolithic culture of Changjiang delta
- instinctive understanding, esp. of ethical issues (idiom); untrained, but with an inborn sense of right and wrong
- innate moral sense
Trad. 良禽擇木
- a fine bird chooses a tree to nest in (proverb)
- fig. a talented person chooses a patron of integrity
Trad. 奈良時代
- Nara period (710-794) in early Japanese history
- to ponder earnestly
- to give a lot of thought to sth
Trad. 良莠不齊
- good and bad people intermingled
Trad. 良藥苦口
- good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
- fine time, lucky day (idiom); fig. good opportunity
- fine time, beautiful scenery (idiom); everything lovely
Trad. 溫良恭儉
- temperate, kind, courteous and restrained
Trad. 改良主義
- reformism (i.e. favoring gradual change as opposed to revolution)
Trad. 接觸不良
- loose or defective contact (elec.)
Trad. 喜結良緣
- (idiom) to get happily married; to form an auspicious union
Trad. 摯友良朋
- intimate friend and companion (idiom)
- to root out the strong and give people peace (idiom); to rob the rich and give to the poor
- to ponder earnestly
- to give a lot of thought to sth
Trad. 喪盡天良
- devoid of conscience (idiom); utterly heartless
Trad. 逼良為娼
- to force an honest girl into prostitution (idiom)
- to debauch
Trad. 順應不良
- inability to adjust
- unable to adapt
Trad. 廣結良緣
- to earn people's praise through one's good deeds (idiom)
Trad. 孟良崮戰役
- Battle of Mt Mengliang in Shandong of 1947 between the Nationalists and Communists
Trad. 溫良恭儉讓
- temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous
Trad. 舉賢良對策
- Treatise 134 BC by Han dynasty philosopher Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒
Trad. 久病成良醫
- long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)
Trad. 良禽擇木而棲
- a fine bird chooses a tree to nest in (proverb)
- fig. a talented person chooses a patron of integrity
Trad. 劣幣驅逐良幣
- bad money drives out good money (economics)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡·愛|简·爱[Jian3 · Ai4]
Trad. 再生不良性貧血
- aplastic anemia
Trad. 杜興氏肌肉營養不良症
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy