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HSK
age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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  *代* | 代* | *代
to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute / generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon
HSK 3
a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
ancient times
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
modern times / modern age / modern era
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
to replace / to supersede / to supplant / (chemistry) substitution
HSK 7-9
dynasty / reign (of a king)
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
code name
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
agent
HSK 7-9
descendant; progeny / posterity; later ages; later generations
HSK 7-9
algebraic equation
fundamental theorem of algebra (every polynomial has a complex root)
representative work (of an author or artist)
generation gap
former times / the olden days
the Maldives
ice age
from generation to generation / generation after generation
chief representative
the prehistoric Shang dynasty (c. 16th-11th century BC)
algebraic geometry
Second book of Chronicles
higher algebra
Time, US weekly news magazine
Time Warner Inc., US media company
to get around using a conveyance (car, bicycle, sedan chair etc); to ride (or drive) / means of transportation
Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC
Generation Y / Millennial Generation
Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China
to buy (on behalf of sb)
the sixties / the 1960s
in place of sb's parents / in loco parentis (law)
to take the blame for sb else / to be made a scapegoat
Stone Age
agent
voucher; coupon
final generation
chronology (the science of determining the dates of past events)
source code (computing)
to act for sb else / to act on sb's behalf / an agent / a diplomatic representative / a chargé d'affaires
vector algebra
to write on behalf of sb / to ghostwrite
beginning of an age / beginning of a decade
golden age
modernization / CL: 個|个
to sell as agent / to sell on commission (e.g. insurance policies) / proxy sale (of stocks)
Bandai toy company
representativeness / representative; typical
new age
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
three generations of a family / the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou)
replacement / substitution / metabolism (biol.)
(computing, math.) to iterate / (literary) to alternate
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
the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
peerless / unmatched in his generation / incomparable (talent, beauty)
to receive sth on another's behalf
to transition to a new dynasty or regime
to teach as substitute for absent teacher
to drive a vehicle for its owner (often as a paid service for sb who has consumed alcohol) (abbr. for 代理駕駛|代理驾驶) / substitute driver (abbr. for 代駕司機|代驾司机)
pronoun / synonym / byword
modern man / Homo sapiens
Cenozoic (geological era covering the last 65m years)
new generation
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
to administer / to manage / to hold in trust or escrow
to do sth in place of sb else
algebra (as branch of math.)
(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)
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
to provide work to relieve poverty
Neolithic Era
Dark Ages
periodization (of history)

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