"Artifice" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 巧妙 | qiǎo miào | ingenious / clever / ingenuity / artifice |   |
| 心路 | xīn lù | scheme / artifice / tolerance / intention / motive / train of thought / brains / wit / ideas | |
| 素面朝天 | sù miàn cháo tiān | lit. to present oneself confidently to the emperor, without makeup (as did the sister of Yang Guifei 楊貴妃|杨贵妃[Yang2 Gui4 fei1]) (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) to show one's natural features, without makeup / to present oneself just as one is, without artifice | |
