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HSK
age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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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
modern times / modern age / modern era
HSK 3
a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
delegation / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
representative / delegate / CL: , 個|个, / to represent / to stand for / on behalf of / in the name of
HSK 3
ancient times
HSK 3
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
to substitute for / to replace / to supersede
HSK 4
the present age / the contemporary era
HSK 5
price / cost / consideration (in share dealing)
HSK 5
to act on behalf of sb in a responsible position / to act as an agent or proxy / surrogate / (computing) proxy
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
to replace / to supersede / to supplant / (chemistry) substitution
HSK 7-9
dynasty / reign (of a king)
HSK 7-9
agent
HSK 7-9
descendant; progeny / posterity; later ages; later generations
HSK 7-9
metabolism (biology) / the new replaces the old (idiom)
HSK 7-9
spokesperson
HSK 7-9
for many generations / generation / era / age
HSK 7-9
epoch-marking
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to replace; to supersede; to take its (or her etc) place
HSK 7-9
the next generation
HSK 7-9
code
Time, US weekly news magazine
to buy (on behalf of sb)
Hyundai, South Korean company
to write as substitute for sb / a ghost writer / plagiarism
agent
final generation
(computing, math.) to iterate / (literary) to alternate
to act for sb else / to act on sb's behalf / an agent / a diplomatic representative / a chargé d'affaires
golden age
modernization / CL: 個|个
party congress (of the Communist Party of China)
to sell as agent / to sell on commission (e.g. insurance policies) / proxy sale (of stocks)
Bandai toy company
representativeness / representative; typical
new age
three generations of a family / the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou)
replacement / substitution / metabolism (biol.)
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
representative work (of an author or artist)
the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
peerless / unmatched in his generation / incomparable (talent, beauty)
to receive sth on another's behalf
to teach as substitute for absent teacher
pronoun / synonym / byword
modern man / Homo sapiens
Cenozoic (geological era covering the last 65m years)
new generation
to write on behalf of sb / to ghostwrite
the Maldives
to do everything oneself (idiom); not to allow others in on the act
algebra
Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
modern history (for China, from the Opium Wars until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, i.e. mid-19th to early 20th century)
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
from generation to generation / generation after generation
modern history
to administer / to manage / to hold in trust or escrow
linear algebra
to do sth in place of sb else
to transition to a new dynasty or regime
(Tw) to take over sb's job; to substitute for
to carry on one's ancestral line
magnificent style unmatched in his generation (idiom); peerless talent
valet parking
the Warring States period (475-221 BC) / Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century)
sundae (loanword)
reform and renewal / generational change
the era of Japanese occupation
to be a spokesperson / to be an ambassador (for a brand) / to endorse
modernization of agriculture, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
source code (computing)
to provide work to relieve poverty
Neolithic Era
Dark Ages
periodization (of history)
ancient history
pronoun
History of the Five Dynasties, eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正 in 974 during Northern Song 北宋, 150 scrolls
to transition to a new dynasty or regime / to replace an older product with an upgraded, new-generation one
The Last Emperor, 1987 biopic of Pu Yi 溥儀|溥仪 by Bernardo Bertolucci
modernist faction / modernists
ice age
scapegoat
beauty unmatched in her generation (idiom); woman of peerless elegance / prettiest girl ever
Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China
Dai county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
chief representative
a plenipotentiary (representative)
demonstrative pronoun
Stone Age
deputy to the People's Congress
representative individual (of a school of thought)
algebra (as branch of math.)

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