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career / life (way in which sb lives) / period of one's life
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an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the woods; the true recluse chooses the city (idiom)
(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
walking corpse (idiom) / zombie / person who lives only on the material level
(of government policy, noise pollution, crime etc) to make people's lives difficult
(idiom) to make everyone's lives better
sleeping dragon / (fig.) a person of outstanding talent who lives in obscurity
three-legged Golden Crow that lives in the sun (in northeast Asian and Chinese mythology) / Korean: samjog'o
person who lives and makes a living on a boat / boatman / boat dweller
if the family lives in harmony all affairs will prosper (idiom)
an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the wild; the true recluse chooses the city (idiom)
engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives / undying gratitude
to marry a man who lives in a distant place
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
hard to forget even after one's teeth fall out (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives / undying gratitude
"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
Golden Crow / the sun / the three-legged golden crow that lives in the sun
lit. will not be forgotten even after one's teeth fall out / to remember as long as one lives / unforgettable (idiom)
(Buddhism) recollection of past lives / wisdom of past lives (one of six supernatural powers of Buddhas and arhats)
(literary) to stay long in a place far from home / (literary) person who lives in an alien land
Jinshan Temple, where Fahai lives (from Madam White Snake)
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
lit. etched into one's heart and bones (idiom) / fig. etched in one's memory; remembered with gratitude as long as one lives
(Tw) (coll.) earthquake (According to a folk tale, earthquakes are caused by the occasional movements of an ox that lives under the earth.)
Black Lives Matter (social movement)
(Wu dialect) bum / wretched-looking tramp who lives by begging or stealing
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)
three-legged Golden Crow that lives in the sun (in northeast Asian and Chinese mythology) / Korean: samjog'o
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
single girl who lives a lackadaisical life, uninterested in relationships (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 干物女 "himono onna")


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