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HSK
synopsis / outline / program / leading principles
HSK 5
outline / essential points
HSK 7-9
program (i.e. plan of action) / guiding principle
HSK 7-9
action plan / program of action
three principles and five virtues (idiom) / the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence , righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom and fidelity )
to play the leading role
subclass (taxonomy)
course syllabus / class curriculum
Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李時珍|李时珍
exam outline (outline of the content of an exam, published prior to the exam as a guide for examinees) (abbr. for 考試大綱|考试大纲)
law and order
Diplopoda (zoology)
if you lift the headrope the meshes spread open (idiom) / take care of the big things and the little things will take care of themselves / (of a piece of writing) well-structured and ordered
pattern-syndrome identification based on the eight principles (TCM)
beyond the scope of the syllabus
to concentrate on the main points (idiom); to bring out the essentials
to make a mountain out of a molehill
outline / synopsis / notes
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head rope of a fishing net / guiding principle / key link / class (taxonomy) / outline / program
common program / formal program of the communist party after 1949, that served as interim national plan
Mammalia, the class of mammals
gastropod (class of mollusks including snails)
(political) party platform / party program
the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord government of China
Li Shizhen (1518-1593), Ming botanist and pharmacologist, author of Compendium of Medical Herbs 本草綱目|本草纲目
Arachnids (class of arthropods)
laws and discipline of imperial court
Magnoliopsidae or Dicotyledoneae (class of plants distinguished by two embryonic leaves)
Lamellibranchia / class of bivalves
Class Trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, a parasite incl. on humans
Eumycetes (taxonomic class of fungi)
Cephalopoda, class of mollusks including nautilus and squid
dimension (unit)
Cestoda (an order of flatworms)
Schizomycetes (taxonomic class of fungi)
political program / platform
Zygomycetes
(zoology) Synapsida
(TCM) the eight principal syndromes (used to differentiate pathological conditions): yin and yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat, hypofunction and hyperfunction
Felix Klein's Erlangen program (1872) on geometry and group theory
Malacostraca, a large class of crustaceans
to violate the natural order; to defy social norms
Turbellaria (an order of flatworms)
flagellate
yokozuna
cyclostome (marine biology)
Sauropsida, class within Chordata containing reptiles


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