| | career / life (way in which sb lives) / period of one's life | HSK 7-9 |
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| | an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the woods; the true recluse chooses the city (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法) to deploy one's troops in such a way that there is no possibility of retreat, so that they will fight for their lives and win the battle; to fight desperately when confronted with mortal danger; to find a way to emerge from a dire situation | |
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| | walking corpse (idiom) / zombie / person who lives only on the material level | |
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| | (of government policy, noise pollution, crime etc) to make people's lives difficult | |
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| | (idiom) to make everyone's lives better | |
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| | sleeping dragon / (fig.) a person of outstanding talent who lives in obscurity | |
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| | three-legged Golden Crow that lives in the sun (in northeast Asian and Chinese mythology) / Korean: samjog'o | |
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| | person who lives and makes a living on a boat / boatman / boat dweller | |
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| | if the family lives in harmony all affairs will prosper (idiom) | |
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| | an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the wild; the true recluse chooses the city (idiom) | |
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| | engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives / undying gratitude | |
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| | to marry a man who lives in a distant place | |
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| | lit. the mountain dweller lives off the mountain, the shore dweller lives off the sea (idiom) / fig. to make the best use of local resources / to exploit one's position to advance oneself / to find one's niche / to live off the land | |
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| | hard to forget even after one's teeth fall out (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives / undying gratitude | |
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| | "The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai", a novel by Han Bangqing 韓邦慶|韩邦庆 depicting the lives of Shanghai courtesans in the late Qing dynasty | |
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| | Golden Crow / the sun / the three-legged golden crow that lives in the sun | |
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| | lit. will not be forgotten even after one's teeth fall out / to remember as long as one lives / unforgettable (idiom) | |
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| | (Buddhism) recollection of past lives / wisdom of past lives (one of six supernatural powers of Buddhas and arhats) | |
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| | (literary) to stay long in a place far from home / (literary) person who lives in an alien land | |
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| | Jinshan Temple, where Fahai lives (from Madam White Snake) | |
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| | notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old) / a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties | |
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| | lit. etched into one's heart and bones (idiom) / fig. etched in one's memory; remembered with gratitude as long as one lives | |
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| | (Tw) (coll.) earthquake (According to a folk tale, earthquakes are caused by the occasional movements of an ox that lives under the earth.) | |
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| | Black Lives Matter (social movement) | |
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| | (Wu dialect) bum / wretched-looking tramp who lives by begging or stealing | |
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| | chicken stock / chicken soup / (fig.) chicken soup for the soul – i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives) | |
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| | three-legged Golden Crow that lives in the sun (in northeast Asian and Chinese mythology) / Korean: samjog'o | |
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| | nursing student / (Buddhism) to preserve the lives of all living beings | |
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| | (Chinese mythology) creature that lives underwater and spits sand to make people ill | |
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| | single girl who lives a lackadaisical life, uninterested in relationships (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 干物女 "himono onna") | |
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