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拉力
Mandarin: la1 li4
[1] pulling power (of tractors, horses and such like) [2] stretchability; stretching endurance (of ropes, rubber products and such like) [3] [transliteration] [mostly Mandarin] motor rally; vehicle racing competition held on public roads or off-road tracks | Often used in such terms as 拉力車賽 or 拉力競賽
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拉力賽
a rally
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拉勻
Mandarin: la1 yun2
Simplified: 拉匀
to make even, to spread equally
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拉卜楞寺
Mandarin: la1 bu3 leng4 si4
Labrang (Tibetan monastery in Amdo prov. of Tibet, pres. Gansu)
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拉咗
Cantonese
have been arrested; have been taken into custody
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拉埋天窗
Mandarin: la1 mai2 tian1 chuang1
(slang) to get married
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拉大纜
Mandarin: la1 da4 lan3
Simplified: 拉大缆
noun; Tug of War Contest in which two teams pull at opposite ends of a rope until one drags the other over a central line.
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拉夫羅夫
Mandarin: la1 fu1 luo2 fu1
Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov
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拉孜
Mandarin: la1 zi1
Lazi (place in Tibet)
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拉客
Mandarin: la1 ke4
solicit customers/patrons; tout for business; (of taxi drivers, etc) take on passengers
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拉客仔
Mandarin: la1 ke4 zi3
to find | attract customers
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拉小提琴
to play the violin
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拉尺
Mandarin: la1 chi3
a measuring tape; a tape measure
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拉尼娜
Mandarin: la1 ni2 na4
La Nina (equatorial climate variation)
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拉巴
Mandarin: la1 ba5
library
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拉布
Mandarin: la1bu4
filibuster
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拉布戰術
delaying tactic; filibuster; stalling tactic
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拉布拉多
Mandarin: la1 bu4 la1 duo1
(dog) labrador
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拉後腿
Mandarin: la1 hou4 tui3
Simplified: 拉后腿
to hold people back
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拉手
Mandarin: la1 shou3
pulling hand (one of the Wing Chun/Ving Tsun kung fu 詠春拳's principal hand movement)
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拉扯
Mandarin: la1 che5
(verb) Argue with pulling and pushing
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拉拉鏈
Mandarin: la1 la1 lian4
to pull/zip the zipper
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拉攏
draw sb. over to one's side; win over; rope in
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拉斯維加斯
Mandarin: la1 si1 wei2 jia1 si1
city of Las Vegas, Nevada [also called] 賭城 , 世界娛樂首都 , 罪惡城
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拉斷
Mandarin: la1 duan4
Simplified: 拉断
to tear off; to pull off; to snap
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拉柴
Mandarin: la1 chai2
(slang) die; pass away
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拉牛上樹
Mandarin: la1 niu2 shang4 shu4
Simplified: 拉牛上树
to try and do something that is almost impossible to achieve
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拉生意
Mandarin: la1 sheng1 yi4
bring in business (lit., "pull in business"); canvass
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拉登
Osama bin Laden
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拉票
Mandarin: la1 piao4
campaign for votes, ask voters for support
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