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EXAMPLES/列句
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他可是百里挑一的歌手,声音特别好。He is an extremely outstanding singer with a perfect voice.
COMBINATIONS/组合
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百里侯(in modern Taiwan,said jokingly) mayor; (in mainland China,ancient Chinese) highest county magistrate
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百里香thyme (same as 麝香草)
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百里挑一one in hundred,cream of the crop,extremely outstanding
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百里香属(Bot.) thyme,thymus
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方圆百里within a radius of 50000km
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行百里者半九十To cover 90 percent of one's destined distance brings the traveler no farther than the midway point -- the last part of an endeavor is the hardest to finish; One must sustain one's effort when a task is nearly completed