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| | casualties / injuries and deaths | HSK 6 |
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| | Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武｜孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书 | |
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| | early demise / untimely death | |
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| | Xia Huanggong also known as Huang Shigong 黃石公｜黄石公 (dates of birth and death uncertain), Daoist hermit of the Qin Dynasty 秦代 and purported author of “Three Strategies of Huang Shigong” 黃石公三略｜黄石公三略, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书 | |
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| | to collapse / to fall into ruins / death of king or emperor / demise | |
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| | to feign death / to fake death | |
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| | peaceful death at a very advanced age | |
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| | lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom) / fig. it's a life-and-death struggle / it's either him or me | |
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| | cannot avoid being killed / cannot escape death / to be mortal | |
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| | to brave death | |
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| | half a life / only half alive / barely alive / (scared, beaten etc) half to death | |
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| | news of sb's death | |
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| | unexpected misfortune / unexpected accident / sudden death | |
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| | Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), Mao's attempt to modernize China's economy, which resulted in economic devastation, and millions of deaths from famine caused by misguided policies | |
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| | (idiom) once the main problem is solved, all troubles are solved; death ends all one's troubles | |
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| | Song Qingling (1893-1981), second wife of Sun Yat-sen 孫中山｜孙中山, influential political figure in China after Sun's death in 1925 | |
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| | life or death | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to hack to death / to kill with an ax | |
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| | to die an untimely death (idiom) / to be cut off in one's prime | |
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| | to cause sb's death / extremely; terribly / (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance | HSK 7-9 |
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| | facing death / at death's door | |
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| | to grieve over sb's death / to lament sb's death / mourning | |
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| | to give as a present / to repel / to bestow an honorary title after death (old) | HSK 5 |
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| | to tire oneself out through overwork / to work oneself to death | |
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| | at death's door | |
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| | to seek life in death (idiom); to fight for one's life | |
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| | number of people killed / death toll | |
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| | unknown cause of death | |
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| | clinical death | |
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| | death / to pass away (of Buddhist monks, nuns etc) | |
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| | to kill / to put to death | |
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| | memorial activity 35 days after a person's death | |
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| | (idiom) Zhu Yun breaks the railing (Zhu Yun was a Han Dynasty official who accused the emperor's tutor of corruption, and when sentenced to death, clung to the palace hall railing so fiercely while demanding justice that he broke it); (fig.) to speak the truth with unwavering courage; to admonish fearlessly / also pr. [zhu1yun2-she2jian4] | |
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| | to suffer an unjust death | |
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| | violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster / an unnatural death | |
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| | to freeze to death / to die off in winter | |
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| | to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate | |
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| | to crush to death | |
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| | Better broken jade than intact tile. / Death is preferable to dishonor. (idiom) | |
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| | mythological figure (such as the Grim Reaper) in charge of taking the souls of those who die / (fig.) death | |
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| | variable / changeable / fickle / impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya) / ghost taking away the soul after death / to pass away / to die | |
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| | to be reborn / to live in paradise (Buddhism) / to die / (after) one's death | |
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| | lit. (may the) five blessings descend upon this home (namely: longevity, wealth, health, virtue, and a natural death) / (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year) | |
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| | dead person / (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen | |
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| | Sima Rangju (c. 800 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), military strategist of the Qi State 齊國｜齐国 and author of “Methods of Sima” 司馬法｜司马法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书 | |
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| | (intransitive) to choke to death | |
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| | a make-or-break matter / a matter of life and death | |
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| | Death note (Japanese: デスノート), translation of cult manga series by author ŌBA Tsugumi 大場鶇｜大场鸫 (pen-name) and illustrator OBATA Takeshi 小畑健 | |
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| | prisoner that awaits execution / convict sentenced to death / someone on death row | |
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| | to come back to life (after death) | |
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| | until death puts an end (idiom); one's whole life / unto one's dying day | |
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| | (idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment | |
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| | brain death | |
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| | karoshi (loanword from Japanese), death from overwork | |
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| | on one's deathbed / at the point of death | |
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| | to press sb to death / fig. to pressurize sb continually | |
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| | to await death / to be a sitting duck | |
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| | deferred death sentence / commuted death sentence with forced labor and judicial review after two years (PRC) (legal) | |
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| | premature death of a budding talent / those whom the Gods love die young | |
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| | better a bad life than a good death (idiom) | |
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| | accident causing injury or death | |
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| | suspended animation / feigned death / to play dead | |
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| | the lingering death / the death of a thousand cuts (old form of capital punishment) | |
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| | to part forever / eternal parting (i.e. death) | |
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| | to starve to death / to be very hungry | |
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| | life or death / fate / no matter what / anyway / for the life of me | |
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| | as weighty as Mt Tai, as light as a feather (refers to death) | |
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| | to court death; to take a big risk | |
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| | murderous spirit / aura of death / to vent one's anger | |
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| | lit. to escape from the tiger's mouth (idiom) / fig. to narrowly escape death | |
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| | cause of death | |
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| | brain death | |
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| | regardless of life or death (idiom) | |
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| | greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly / clinging abjectly to life / only interested in saving one's neck | |
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| | dying (from illness) / facing death / on one's deathbed | |
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| | Sun Wu, also known as Sun Tzu 孫子｜孙子 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书 | |
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| | to kill / to beat to death | |
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| | doom / death / desperately | |
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| | (coll.) on the point of death / dying | |
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| | to be parted by death | |
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| | after death / posthumous | |
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| | (slang) (fig.) to court death (derived from 找死 via its near homophone 照屎) | |
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| | fight to the death / desperate struggle | |
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| | Death wish, movie series with Charles Bronson | |
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| | matter of life and death | |
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| | news of sb's death; sad news | |
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| | to hound sb to death | |
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| | give me liberty or give me death | |
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| | Aum Shinrikyo (or Supreme Truth), the Japanese death cult responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway | |
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| | to kill / to cause death / to do sb to death | |
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| | to die / death | |
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| | not to repent even facing death (idiom) / unrepentant / very obstinate | |
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| | life and death are ruled by fate (idiom) | |
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| | OBATA Takeshi, manga artist, illustrator of cult series Death Note 死亡筆記｜死亡笔记 | |
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| | one's utmost / (to fight or work) desperately hard / to put up a life or death struggle / at all costs | |
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| | life or death / critical (event) | |
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| | dates of birth and death (of historical figure) | |
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| | path to the underworld (in Daoist or folk beliefs, referring to the journey of spirits after death) | |
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| | to be at death's door (idiom) | |
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