"Nor" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yě bù neither / nor
 bù yī bù ráo not to overlook, nor spare (idiom) / unwilling to forgive / to treat severely without listening to excuses
 ruò jí ruò lí lit. seeming neither close nor distant (idiom) / fig. to keep one's distance / (of a relationship) lukewarm / vague
 bù zhuó biān jì not to the point / wide of the mark / neither here nor there / irrelevant
 bù bēi bù kàng neither servile nor overbearing (idiom) / neither obsequious nor supercilious
 bù sān bù sì dubious / shady / neither one thing nor the other / neither fish nor fowl / nondescript
 wú kě wú bù kě neither for nor against sth / indifferent
 bù kàng bù bēi neither haughty nor humble / neither overbearing nor servile / neither supercilious nor obsequious
 bù jí bù lí to be neither too familiar nor too distant / to keep sb at arm's length
 fēi lu:2 fēi mǎ neither fish nor fowl / resembling nothing on earth
 fēi qīn fēi gù lit. neither a relative nor a friend (idiom) / fig. unrelated to one another in any way
 bù jí bù xú neither too fast nor too slow (idiom)
 qián wú gǔ rén hòu wú lái zhě to surpass all others of its kind before and since / to have neither predecessors nor successors
 Lóu lán Loulan, aka Kroraina, ancient oasis town on the Silk Road near Lop Nor 羅布泊|罗布泊[Luo2 bu4 po1]
 tóng sǒu wú qī cheating neither old nor young (idiom) / treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike.
 bù zhàn bù hé neither war nor peace
 Luó bù bó Lop Nor, salt lake and nuclear testing site in Xinjiang
 bù shā bù rǔ to neither kill nor humiliate (idiom)
 liú shuǐ bù fǔ , hù shū bù dù lit. flowing water does not rot, nor a door-hinge rust (idiom) / fig. constant activity prevents decay
 lǎo shào wú qī cheating neither old nor young / treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike.
 ān diǎn saddle point (math.), a critical point of a function of several variables that is neither a maximum nor a minimum
 shàng tiān wú lù , rù dì wú mén lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom) / fig. to be at the end of one's rope / to be trapped in a hopeless situation
 dān shēn wāng (Internet slang) person who is neither married nor in a relationship (used self-deprecatingly)
 dān shēn gǒu (Internet slang) person who is neither married nor in a relationship (used self-deprecatingly)
 Luó bù pō Lop Nor, former salt lake in Xinjiang, now a salt-encrusted lake bed
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