| | thorn / sting / thrust / to prick / to pierce / to stab / to assassinate / to murder | HSK 4 |
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| | to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack / to weaken; to reduce / (dialect) to smart / (used after a verb) extremely | HSK 5 |
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| | murderer / assassin | HSK 6 |
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| | killer / murderer / hit man / (sports) formidable player | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to murder | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to conspire to murder / to plot against sb's life | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to murder / to assassinate / intentional homicide | |
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| | to fail to accomplish / unsuccessful (attempt); abortive (coup d'état); attempted (murder, suicide); unfulfilled (wish) | |
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| | to plot and kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money | |
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| | to murder without blinking an eye (idiom) / ruthless / cold-blooded | |
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| | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), famous Roman politician, orator and philosopher, murdered at the orders of Marc Anthony | |
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| | victim's family (esp. in murder case) | |
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| | murderer / homicide | |
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| | to murder a superior / to murder one's parent | |
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| | desire to commit murder / great danger | |
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| | Emperor Yang of Sui (569-618), said to have murdered his father and brother to seize the throne, reigned 604-618 | |
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| | murder case / homicide case | |
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| | murder mystery (novel); whodunit | |
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| | to kill / to murder | |
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| | homicide / to murder / to kill (a person) | |
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| | Hongmen feast / (fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest / refers to a famous episode in 206 BC when future Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 escaped attempted murder by his rival Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 | |
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| | violent crime / to commit a violent act (assault or murder) | |
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| | to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson | |
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| | murder as a crime of passion | |
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| | murder case | |
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| | to murder / assassination | |
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| | to kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money | |
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| | murderer | |
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| | premeditated murder | |
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| | lethal weapon / murder weapon | |
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| | evidence of murder / bloodstain evidence | |
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| | to be murdered | |
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| | executioner / headsman / slaughterer / fig. indiscriminate murderer | |
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| | victim (of a wounding or murder) | |
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| | to kill sb / to murder | |
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| | Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885-1919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Tsar's family in 1918, died of Spanish influenza | |
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| | premeditated murder | |
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| | Song Jiaoren (1882-1913), politician of the revolutionary party involved in the 1911 Xinhai revolution, murdered in Shanghai in 1913 | |
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| | murderer; killer | |
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| | Sun Chuanfang (1885-1935) one of the northern warlord, murdered in Tianjin in 1935 | |
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| | to rape and murder | |
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| | Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager and child emperor, killed in 192 by Lü Bu 呂布|吕布 | |
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| | Huang Xing (1874-1916), revolutionary politician, close collaborator of Sun Yat-sen, prominent in the 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命, murdered in Shanghai in 1916 | |
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| | Three Murder Cases Solved by Judge Dee, 1949 novel by R.H. van Gulik, featuring Tang Dynasty politician Di Renjie 狄仁傑|狄仁杰 as master sleuth | |
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| | Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg) / Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA. | |
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| | murder weapon (i.e. knife) | |
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| | murder mystery game (role-playing game) | |
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| | Asif Ali Zardari (1956-), Pakistani People's Party politician, widower of murdered Benazir Bhutto, president of Pakistan from 2008-2013 | |
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| | Park Chung-Hee (1917-1979), South Korean military man and dictator, president 1963-1979, influential in developing Korean industry, murdered by his bodyguard | |
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| | Li Jiancheng (589-626), eldest son of first Tang emperor Li Yuan 唐高祖李淵|唐高祖李渊, murdered by his brother 李世民 in the Xuanwu Gate coup 玄武門之變|玄武门之变 / Professor Li Jiancheng (1964-), geophysicist and specialist in satellite geodesy | |
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| | attempted murder | |
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| | (case of, incident of) murder | |
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| | Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends / master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案 translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮|高罗佩 | |
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| | Dee Gong An (or Judge Dee's) Cases, 18th century fantasy featuring Tang dynasty politician Di Renjie 狄仁傑|狄仁杰 as master sleuth, translated by R.H. van Gulik as Three Murder Cases Solved by Judge Dee | |
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| | suspected of murder / criminal suspect | |
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| | Leon Davidovich Trotsky (1879-1940), early Bolshevik leader, exiled by Stalin in 1929 and murdered in 1940 | |
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| | murder | |
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| | lit. Xiang Zhuang performs the sword dance, but his mind is set on Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 (idiom); refers to 206 BC plot to murder Liu Bang, aka Duke of Pei 沛公 and the future Han emperor, during a sword dance at the Hongmen feast 鴻門宴|鸿门宴 / an elaborate deception to hide malicious intent | |
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