"Wants" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yù qiú to desire / wants / appetites
 rú yì as one wants / according to one's wishes / ruyi scepter, a symbol of power and good fortune
 chàng suǒ yù yán lit. fluently saying all one wants (idiom) / to preach freely on one's favorite topic / to hold forth to one's heart's content
怀 zhèng zhòng xià huái exactly what one wants
 liū xū pāi mǎ to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom) / to use flatter to get what one wants / to toady / boot-licking
 piān tīng piān xìn selective listening / to hear what one wants to hear
 duō tún pěng pì to hold up buttocks and praise a fart (idiom) / to use flatter to get what one wants / to toady / boot-licking
 lài há ma xiǎng chī tiān é ròu lit. the toad wants to eat swan meat (idiom) / fig. to try to punch above one's weight
 yuàn yì bù yuàn yì whether one wants to or not
 dá dào mù dì to achieve one's aim / to get what one wants
 zuān móu to use influence to get what one wants / to find a way through (esp. corrupt) / to succeed by means fair or foul
 yí zhǐ to order with the chin / to indicate what one wants by facial gesture
 yào fēng dé fēng , yào yǔ dé yǔ to get whatever one wants / to have everything going one's way
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