"Setting" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 chǎng hé situation / occasion / context / setting / location / venue
 shè dìng to set / to set up / to install / setting / preferences
 chǎng jǐng scene / scenario / setting
 qíng jìng situation / context / setting / environment
  cutting unit / setting
 xī yáng sunset / the setting sun
 bèi jǐng yīn yuè background music (BGM) / soundtrack / musical setting
 luò rì setting sun
 xié yáng setting sun
 yǎn yìng hidden from view / alternately hidden and visible / setting off each other
 xī zhào glow of the setting sun
 dé zhì rule by virtue / rule by setting virtuous example (Confucian ideal)
 héng pái horizontal setting (printing)
 mà (arch.) religious ritual on setting out for war
 wèn zuì zhī shī punitive force / a person setting out to deliver severe reproach
 huí guāng fǎn zhào final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)
 huí guāng fǎn zhào final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)
西 dōng tù xī wū lit. the sun setting and the moon rising (idiom) / fig. the passage of time
 yú guāng (out of) the corner of one's eyes / peripheral vision / residual light / light of the setting sun
 Bù léi dùn sēn lín Bretton woods conference in 1944 of allied powers, regulating world exchange rates and setting up IMF and world bank
 dǎng wèi (in a manual car) gear (i.e. reverse, neutral, 1st, 2nd etc) / (automatic car) transmission mode (P, R, N, D etc) / (electric fan etc) speed setting
 Jiǔ fèn Jiufen (or Jioufen or Chiufen), mountainside town in north Taiwan, former gold mining town, used as the setting for two well-known movies
 gòu zào bèi jǐng tectonic setting
  International Conference on Setting National Disability Policies - An Agenda for Action
 pèng cí (coll.) to scam sb by setting up an "accident" in which one appears to have sustained damage or injury caused by the scam victim, then demanding compensation (variations include putting "expensive" porcelain in a place where it is likely to be knocked over by passers-by, and stepping into the path of a slow-moving car)
 Yān zī (old) name of a mountain in Gansu, where the setting sun was supposed to enter the earth
 zhí pái vertical setting (printing)
 zé rì bù rú zhuàng rì lit. carefully setting an auspicious date does not beat seizing an opportunity (idiom) / fig. seize the occasion
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