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to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute / generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon
HSK 3
representative / delegate / CL: , 個|个, / to represent / to stand for / on behalf of / in the name of
HSK 3
age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
modern times / modern age / modern era
HSK 3
ancient times
HSK 3
delegation / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to substitute for / to replace / to supersede
HSK 4
the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949)
HSK 4
to replace; to take the place of
HSK 4
the present age / the contemporary era
HSK 5
to act on behalf of sb in a responsible position / to act as an agent or proxy / surrogate / (computing) proxy
HSK 5
price / cost / consideration (in share dealing)
HSK 5
to transfer (duties to sb else) / to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth) / to explain; to give an account; to brief / to confess; to account for oneself / (jocular) to come to a bad end
HSK 5
generation
HSK 6
code name
HSK 7-9
dynasty / reign (of a king)
HSK 7-9
descendant; progeny / posterity; later ages; later generations
HSK 7-9
to replace / to supersede / to supplant / (chemistry) substitution
HSK 7-9
metabolism (biology) / the new replaces the old (idiom)
HSK 7-9
for many generations / generation / era / age
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to replace; to supersede; to take its (or her etc) place
HSK 7-9
agent
HSK 7-9
the next generation
HSK 7-9
spokesperson
HSK 7-9
epoch-marking
HSK 7-9
to serve as a surrogate mother / surrogacy
the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
pseudocode
algebraic geometry
country code
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
to receive sth on another's behalf
replacement / substitution / metabolism (biol.)
modern dance
pronoun
Time, US weekly news magazine
to be a spokesperson / to be an ambassador (for a brand) / to endorse
successive generations / successive dynasties / past dynasties
modern history and contemporary history
elementary algebra
OEM (original equipment manufacturer)
Time Warner Inc., US media company
Hyundai, South Korean company
to buy (on behalf of sb)
code
the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
(biology) alternation of generations / (fig.) generational succession; passing of the torch from one generation to the next
algebraic surface
token (used instead of money for slot machines, in game arcades etc)
personal pronoun
algebra
golden age
relative pronoun
Tang dynasty (618–907)
to act for sb else / to act on sb's behalf / an agent / a diplomatic representative / a chargé d'affaires
to substitute into
Emperor Taizong of Tang (727-779), reign name of ninth Tang emperor Li Yu 李豫, reigned 762-779
(medical) compensation / to repay a debt or obligation in place of sb else
Zhou dynasty (1046-221 BC)
Song dynasty (960-1279)
to sell as agent / to sell on commission (e.g. insurance policies) / proxy sale (of stocks)
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
to withhold tax (from employee's salary)
the Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
universal algebra
the prehistoric Shang dynasty (c. 16th-11th century BC)
peerless / unmatched in his generation / incomparable (talent, beauty)
party congress (of the Communist Party of China)
haloalkane (obtained from hydrocarbon by substituting halogen for hydrogen, e.g. chlorobenzene or the CFCs)
to administer / to manage / to hold in trust or escrow
Bandai toy company
Dai county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
offspring / child's generation
to carry on one's ancestral line
Sui dynasty (581-617)
metonymy
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
to do sth on behalf of sb else
generation gap
alternative name / to refer to sth by another name; antonomasia
to substitute / to replace
throughout the ages
beauty unmatched in her generation (idiom); woman of peerless elegance / prettiest girl ever
to transition to a new dynasty or regime / to replace an older product with an upgraded, new-generation one
to teach as substitute for absent teacher
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Jin Dynasty (265-420)
to transition to a new dynasty or regime
from generation to generation / generation after generation
parent's generation / previous generation
Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China
the Three Represents, a set of three guiding principles for the CCP introduced by Jiang Zemin 江澤民|江泽民 in 2000 and enshrined in the Constitution in 2004
interrogative pronoun (誰|谁, 什麼|什么, 哪兒|哪儿 etc)
to do sth in place of sb else
final generation
periodization (of history)
Paleozoic, geological era 545-250m years ago, covering Cambrian 寒武紀|寒武纪, Ordovician 奧陶紀|奥陶纪, Silurian 志留紀|志留纪, Devonian 泥盆紀|泥盆纪, Carboniferous 石炭紀|石炭纪, Permian 二疊紀|二叠纪
to provide work to relieve poverty
Mesozoic (geological era 250-65m years ago, covering Triassic 三疊紀|三叠纪, Jurassic 侏羅紀|侏罗纪 and Cretaceous 白堊紀|白垩纪)

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