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- meager
- slight
- weak
- ungenerous or unkind
- frivolous
- to despise
- to belittle
- to look down on
- to approach or near
- my meager sensibilities
- blushing face
- please do it for my sake (i.e. to save my face)(humble)
- to favor one and discriminate against the other (abbr. for 厚此薄彼[hou4 ci3 bo2 bi3])
Trad. 薄熙來
- Bo Xilai (1949-), PRC politician, appointed to the Politburo in 2007, sentenced in 2013 to life imprisonment for corruption and misconduct
- Raymond Burghard (1945-), US diplomat and ambassador to Vietnam 2001-2004, chairman of American Institute in Taiwan from 2006
- Bo Yibo (1908-2007), ranking PRC politician, served on State Council from 1950s to 1980s as colleague of Deng Xiaoping
- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Italian writer, poet, and humanist, author of Decameron 十日談|十日谈[Shi2 ri4 Tan2]
Trad. 金屬薄片
- foil
- Taiwan pr. [jin1 shu3 bo2 pian4]
Trad. 紅顏薄命
- beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
- to revere the past and neglect the present (idiom)
Trad. 薄養厚葬
- to neglect one's parents but give them a rich funeral
- hypocrisy in arranging a lavish funeral after treating one's parents meanly
- to favour one and discriminate against the other
- lit. to praise the dead and revile the living
- fig. to live in the past (idiom)
Trad. 勢單力薄
- (idiom) lacking strength and support
Trad. 厚積薄發
- lit. to have accumulated knowledge and deliver it slowly (idiom)
- good preparation is the key to success
- to be well prepared
Trad. 厚養薄葬
- generous care but a thrifty funeral
- to look after one's parents generously, but not waste money on a lavish funeral
Trad. 義薄雲天
- supremely honorable and righteous
- to be unduly humble (idiom)
- to undervalue oneself
Trad. 衣單食薄
- thin coat, meager food (idiom); life of wretched poverty
- destitute
Trad. 德薄能鮮
- little virtue and meager abilities (idiom); I'm a humble person and not much use at anything (Song writer Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ou1 yang2 Xiu1])
Trad. 窮家薄業
- lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom)
- fig. destitute
Trad. 輕口薄舌
- (idiom) hasty and rude; caustic and sharp-tongued
Trad. 輕嘴薄舌
- lit. light mouth, thin tongue (idiom); hasty and rude
- caustic and sharp-tongued
Trad. 噴薄欲出
- to be on the verge of eruption (idiom)
- (of the sun) to emerge in all its brilliance
- lit. as if walking on thin ice (idiom)
- fig. extremely cautious
- lit. the sun sets in Yanzi (idiom)
- fig. the day is drawing to an end
- the last days (of a person, a dynasty etc)
Trad. 攤薄後每股盈利
- diluted earnings per share