life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being / creature / CL: 個｜个, 條｜条

fate / destiny / CL: 個｜个

life span / life expectancy / lifetime (of a machine)

order / command / CL: 道, 個｜个

to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning) / revolution / revolutionary / to revolt (against sb or sth) / to revolutionize (sth) / (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命) / CL: 次

mission / long-term task to which one devotes oneself / a calling

to give a name to / to dub / to christen / to designate / named after / naming

to cause sb's death / extremely; terribly / (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance

life

to appoint / (job) appointment / CL: 紙｜纸

life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc

predestination / karma

fatal / mortal / deadly / to sacrifice one's life

homicide case / murder case

life / to survive / to save a life / to scrape a living

to receive orders / to follow orders / to act under orders

to save sb's life / (interj.) Help! / Save me!

to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it

Mandate of Heaven / destiny / fate / one's life span

to hit (a target)

to settle down and pursue one's path in life (idiom)

to spare sb's life

mutually dependent for life (idiom); to rely upon one another for survival / interdependent

to escape / to flee / to run for one's life

to follow orders / to abide by / to obey

to be on call / to be on standby

proposition (logic, math.) / to assign an essay topic

to kill sb / to murder

vitamin (loanword)

to save one's life / to survive

to flee / to go into exile (from prison)

see 拼命

vitality

to submit to the will of heaven / to resign oneself to fate / to trust to luck

a revolutionary

to lose one's life

hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate

to report on completion of a mission / debriefing

horoscope

revolutionary

ordained or appointed to a post / to benefit from counsel

to commit suicide / to have one's life cut short

to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky

hit rate / scoring rate

lucky (to have escaped death or serious injury)

see 生命體徵｜生命体征

to lose one's life / to get killed

(one's) last straw to clutch at / one's last hope

to demand sb's life

beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)

lifeline

to follow your orders / to do as you bid

executive order

to press sb to death / fig. to pressurize sb continually

to be content with what one is

to be born under an ill star

Book of Deuteronomy / Fifth Book of Moses

violent death / killed in a disaster

to accept misfortunes as decreed by fate / to be resigned to sth

to meet violent death / to get killed

to throw one's life in for / to haplessly give one's life for / to sacrifice oneself torturously working for another or for a group / to pour in one's utmost effort / to shed one's last ounce of strength for

to lose one's life / to die / recklessly / desperately

to have disregard for human life (idiom)

lifeblood / the thing that one cherishes most in life / (coll.) family jewels (male genitals)

to consider oneself to be (sth positive)

to think too much of oneself / self-important / arrogant

year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支

runaway (idiom); desperate criminal / fugitive

fatal / resulting in sb's death

to accept an order

mortal wound / (fig.) fatal weakness / Achilles' heel

to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs

lifeline

decreed by fate (idiom) / destined / fated

to meet with many difficulties in one's life (idiom)

deference is no substitute for obedience (idiom) / (said to accept sb's request, invitation etc)

(idiom) terribly busy / up to one's ears in work

Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830

to fight with all one has

violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster / an unnatural death

against orders / to disobey / to refuse to accept orders

exerting all one's strength

life expectancy

to give sincere advice (idiom) / to exhort earnestly

the course of one's life / one's fate

Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)

to pay with one's life

to die / to perish

to die (idiom) / to breathe one's last / to give up the ghost

Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty

human life / CL: 條｜条

to risk one's life

human life is beyond value (idiom)

to die young / short-lived

martyr of the revolution

vital signs

(idiom) to take on a leadership role at a time of crisis

to be at death's door (idiom)

French Revolution (1789-1799)

to obey an order / to comply / to do sb's bidding / to do as requested