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life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL:個|个,條|条)
HSK 3
fate; destiny / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
order / command / CL: , 個|个
HSK 5
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  *命* | 命* | *命
life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc
HSK 6
to save sb's life / (interj.) Help! / Save me!
HSK 6
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 noun的命) / CL:
HSK 7-9
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
HSK 7-9
proposition (logic, math.) / to assign an essay topic
HSK 7-9
fatal / mortal / deadly / to sacrifice one's life
HSK 7-9
to appoint / (job) appointment / CL: 紙|纸
HSK 7-9
to give a name to / to dub / to christen / to designate / named after / naming
HSK 7-9
mission / long-term task to which one devotes oneself / a calling
HSK 7-9
life span / life expectancy / lifetime (of a machine)
HSK 7-9
life
HSK 7-9
mutually dependent for life (idiom); to rely upon one another for survival / interdependent
HSK 7-9
to cause sb's death / extremely; terribly / (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance
HSK 7-9
lifeline
HSK 7-9
predestination / karma
to hit (a target)
homicide case / murder case
human life / CL: 條|条
fate; predestination / divinatory art
to receive orders / to follow orders / to act under orders
fortune-telling / to tell fortune
to lose one's life
Mandate of Heaven / destiny / fate / one's life span
to risk one's life
to escape / to flee / to run for one's life
to think too much of oneself / self-important / arrogant
to be on call / to be on standby
to work tirelessly; to give one's all; to slave away / to throw away one's life; to sacrifice oneself (usu. for an unworthy cause)
see 拼命
(idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
Cultural Revolution (1966-76) (abbr. for 文化大革命)
to press sb to death / fig. to pressurize sb continually
to give orders
forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031 / cf 辛亥革命, Xinhai Revolution of 1911
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
to be predestined
Shanbei, northern Shaanxi province, including Yulin 榆林 and Yan'an 延安, a Holy Land of Mao's revolution 革命聖地|革命圣地
(idiom) to settle down and pursue one's path in life
horoscope
vitally important / a matter of life and death
to demand sb's life
lifeline
to flee / to go into exile (from prison)
runaway (idiom); desperate criminal / fugitive
to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs
to report on completion of a mission / debriefing
ordained or appointed to a post / to benefit from counsel
vitamin (loanword)
to die young / short-lived
natal chart (astrology)
to spare sb's life
hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate
to pay with one's life
lucky (to have escaped death or serious injury)
to meet violent death / to get killed
human life is beyond value (idiom)
to eliminate counterrevolutionaries (abbr. for 肅清反革命分子|肃清反革命分子)
to follow your orders / to do as you bid
to be born under an ill star
the course of one's life / one's fate
to accept an order
(idiom) to take on a leadership role at a time of crisis
to die (idiom) / to breathe one's last / to give up the ghost
to die / to perish
to follow orders / to abide by / to obey
Imperial order or edict (old)
to follow obediently
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster / an unnatural death
to lose one's life / to get killed
to consider oneself to be (sth positive)
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky
to obey an order / to comply / to do sb's bidding / to do as requested
doom / death / desperately
to commit suicide / to have one's life cut short
against orders / to disobey / to refuse to accept orders
(idiom) terribly busy / up to one's ears in work
to plot and kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money
to be content with what one is
to kill sb / to murder
to have disregard for human life (idiom)
unnatural death; violent death
exerting all one's strength
fate / one's fortune
life / to survive / to save a life / to scrape a living
lifeblood / the thing that one cherishes most in life / (coll.) family jewels (male genitals)
to love wine as one's life (idiom); fond of the bottle
to preserve one's life; to ensure one's survival
lit. to love money as much as one's own life (idiom) / fig. avaricious / tightfisted
to accept misfortunes as decreed by fate / to be resigned to sth
to give sincere advice (idiom) / to exhort earnestly
to rush about on errands / to be kept on the run
to gamble with life / to take reckless risks
to visit the Yellow Springs / to die
to meet with many difficulties in one's life (idiom)
to sacrifice one's life in a crisis

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