| | Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei 魏 as villains | |
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| | (PPT etc) presentation | |
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| | show business | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to perform (a play etc); to stage (a show) / (bound form) to develop; to play out; to carry out (a task) | HSK 3 |
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| | to play the leading role; to star / lead actor | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom) / to rehearse a planned action or activity / to conduct a dry run | |
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| | to give a speech | |
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| | cast (of a movie etc); lineup of performers; troupe | |
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| | military exercise / war game | |
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| | benefit performance / charity show | |
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| | to put on a play / to perform / fig. to pretend / to feign | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to screen (a movie) / to stage (a play) / a screening / a staging | HSK 6 |
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| | the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, namely: A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦, Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义, Water Margin 水滸傳|水浒传, Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记 | |
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| | to give a lecture; to make a speech | HSK 4 |
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| | keynote speech | |
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| | Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕 / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 | |
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| | Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王 overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc | |
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| | to evolve / evolution | |
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| | to develop; to evolve | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Xiao Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义, the two great beauties of ancient China | |
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| | actor; actress; performer | HSK 3 |
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| | (theater etc) to tour; to be on tour; to give itinerant performances (abbr. for 巡迴演出|巡回演出) | |
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| | entertainer / performer | |
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| | to drill; to practice | HSK 7-9 |
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| | broadcasting studio | HSK 7-9 |
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| | deductive reasoning | |
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| | Battle of Redcliff of 208 at Chibi in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黃岡|黄冈, a decisive defeat of Cao Cao 曹操 at the hands of southern kingdom of Wu / famous episode in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 | |
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| | performer / musician | |
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| | ever more critical / problems get more and more intense | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Zhuge Liang (181–234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 during the Three Kingdoms period / the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义, where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius / (fig.) a mastermind | |
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| | acting / performing skills | HSK 7-9 |
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| | speech / to deliver a speech | HSK 7-9 |
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| | succession (of changes in an ecological community) / naturally evolving sequence | |
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| | play / show / performance / exhibition / to perform / to act / to demonstrate / CL: 場|场 | HSK 3 |
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| | to perform on a musical instrument | HSK 6 |
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| | vocal recital or concert | HSK 3 |
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| | orator / speaker | |
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| | an extra (in a movie) | |
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| | war-gaming; simulation of a military operation | |
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| | theatrical performance / CL: 場|场 | |
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| | (of a story etc) to unfold; to play out / to develop (a technique etc) / to enact / (logic) to deduce; to infer | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to sing (for an audience) / vocal performance | HSK 3 |
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| | to perform calculations | |
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| | the theory of evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化論|进化论) | |
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| | extra (actor engaged to appear in a crowd scene) (abbr. for 群眾演員|群众演员) | |
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| | movie actor / movie actress | |
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| | fashion show | |
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| | lit. using straw boats to borrow arrows (idiom, from 三國演義|三国演义) / fig. to use others' manpower and resources for one's own ends | |
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| | to direct / director (film etc) | HSK 3 |
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| | (of a play, movie etc) to begin | |
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| | to deduce / to infer / to derive / an implication | |
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| | exhibition match | |
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| | joint performance | |
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| | Da Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义, the two great beauties of ancient China | |
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| | to take part in a performance; to appear in (a movie etc) | |
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| | inversion (geometry) | |
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| | performer | |
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| | performing arts | |
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| | to perform a play | |
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| | (military, firefighting etc) (verb and noun) drill; exercise; maneuver | HSK 7-9 |
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| | road show or promotional tour (for a product etc) | |
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| | (theater etc) to tour; to be on tour; to give itinerant performances | |
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| | keynote speech | |
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| | Zhou Yu (175-210), famous general of the southern Wu kingdom and victor of the battle of Redcliff / in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义, absolutely no match for Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮 | |
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| | to repeat an old stratagem / up to one's old tricks | |
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| | evolution / gradual forward progress | |
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| | stuntman | |
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| | to be intensifying / to be getting worse and worse / to start to run rampant | |
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| | dummy run / to run through sth / to rehearse | |
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| | maiden stage role / first performance / first public showing | |
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| | to rehearse (a performance) | |
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| | acrobat | |
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| | ventriloquist | |
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| | to practice martial arts | |
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| | role-playing game (RPG) | |
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| | natural change / evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化|进化) | |
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| | Chu Renhuo (1635-1682), author of historical novel Dramatized History of Sui and Tang 隋唐演義|隋唐演义 | |
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| | orator | |
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| | to act together / to put on a joint performance | |
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| | drill / exercise / demonstration / to demonstrate | |
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| | (Tw) to screen a movie | |
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| | to dramatize historical events / novel or play on historical theme | |
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| | to play the role of / to act | HSK 5 |
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| | enka (Japanese genre of sentimental ballads) | |
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| | Dramatized history of Republican China until 1927 by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩, and later chapters by Xu Qinfu 許廑父|许廑父 | |
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| | extra (actor engaged to appear in a crowd scene) | |
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| | to perform in public; to give a performance | |
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| | to act / to play a part | |
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| | lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 in which Liu Bei 劉備|刘备 recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮 to his cause by visiting him three times) / fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb | |
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| | Dramatized history of successive dynasties (from Han to Republican China) by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩 | |
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| | the entertainment world; show business | |
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| | algorithm (Tw) | |
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| | to lecture / to speak publicly | |
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| | to put on extra shows; to extend the run (of a show) / to include an additional element in a show | |
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| | joint military exercise | |
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| | to stop performing a play / to interrupt a stage run | |
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| | to make a pact of brotherhood (from “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” 三國演義|三国演义) (idiom) | |
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| | to go on stage | |
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