"Prominence" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 rì ěr prominence
 tū chū prominent / outstanding / to give prominence to / to protrude / to project
 tū xiǎn to present clearly / to give prominence to / to magnify / clear and obvious
 tū xiàn to come to prominence / to appear clearly / to stick out
 hóu jié Adam's apple / laryngeal prominence
 Fǎ jiā the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475-221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist
 zhāo fēng to catch the wind / (fig.) to attract criticism because of one's prominence
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