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赖
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Definitions
- 1. to depend on
- 2. to hang on in a place
- 3. bad
- 4. to renege (on promise)
- 5. to disclaim
- 6. to rat (on debts)
- 7. rascally
- 8. to blame
- 9. to put the blame on
Example Sentences
1 shown我信 赖 他。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 赖
to have a lie-in
Dalai Lama
see 有賴|有赖[yǒu lài]
trustworthy
to depend on
to act shamelessly
campus dwellers (slang)
to trust
lysine (Lys), an essential amino acid
confidence interval (statistics)
bored to death (idiom)
to be shameless
context dependency
(of an outcome) to rely on
evil behavior (idiom); brazen villainy
Madeleine Albright (1937-), former US Secretary of State
Fulbright (scholarship)
Condoleezza Rice (1954-), US Secretary of State 2005-2009
to rely on
shameless
(coll.) not bad
Rice (name)
\urban dependence disease\ (sufferers are unwilling to give up city comforts and return to the countryside)
to deny
William Lai Ching-te (1959-), Taiwanese DPP politician, vice president of the Republic of China from 2020
better a bad life than a good death (idiom)
to act shamelessly
to deny (through sophism)
MINAMOTO no Yoritomo (1147-1199), Japanese warlord and founder of the Kamakura shogunate 鐮倉幕府|镰仓幕府[lián cāng mù fǔ]
Ryan (name)
Christchurch (New Zealand city)
the Dalai Lama
Wright (name)
brazen faced (idiom); shameless
to renege on a debt
to go back on a marriage contract
Orion (NASA spacecraft)
to accuse falsely
to make a scene
to rely on
naughty
to suffer tedium
(coll.) debt dodger
absolutely reliant on
Lai Shengchuan (1954-), US-Taiwanese dramatist and director
Lai Changxing (1958-), notorious Xiamen mafia boss involved in large scale corruption and smuggling, extradited from Canada back to China in 2008
to refuse to admit (what one has done)
to rely on
to pester someone again and again
hoodlum