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此起彼伏

  • Pinyin: cǐ qǐ bǐ fú
  • Traditional: 此起彼伏
  • HSK: new-7+
  • Part of speech: v
  • up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession
  • no sooner one subsides, the next arises
  • repeating continuously
  • occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc)