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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
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
the present age / the contemporary era
HSK 5
generation
HSK 6
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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
to substitute for / to replace / to supersede
HSK 4
ancient times
HSK 3
for many generations / generation / era / age
HSK 7-9
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
modern times / modern age / modern era
HSK 3
the next generation
HSK 7-9
the seventies; the 1970s
the sixties / the 1960s
epoch-marking
HSK 7-9
Tang dynasty (618–907)
second generation
descendant; progeny / posterity; later ages; later generations
HSK 7-9
Time, US weekly news magazine
to replace / to supersede / to supplant / (chemistry) substitution
HSK 7-9
to be getting worse with each generation
metonymy
the Warring States period (475-221 BC) / Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century)
the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
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)
the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
three generations of a family / the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou)
to refer to / to be used in place of
new generation
dynasty / reign (of a king)
HSK 7-9
Dark Ages
Paleolithic Era
Neolithic Era
Bandai toy company
(computing, math.) to iterate / (literary) to alternate
wealth never survives three generations (idiom)
offspring / child's generation
Jin Dynasty (265-420)
Cenozoic (geological era covering the last 65m years)
new generation
the era of Japanese occupation
to carry on one's ancestral line
Song dynasty (960-1279)
to transition to a new dynasty or regime
Stone Age
successive generations / successive dynasties / past dynasties
golden age
information age
to pass to the next generation
the prehistoric Shang dynasty (c. 16th-11th century BC)
for many generations
final generation
children of officials / word created by analogy with 富二代
to transition to a new dynasty or regime / to replace an older product with an upgraded, new-generation one
Generation Y / Millennial Generation
throughout the ages
Qin dynasty (221-207 BC), founded by the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇, the first dynasty to rule the whole of China
former times / the olden days
peerless / unmatched in his generation / incomparable (talent, beauty)
Mesolithic Era
the Renaissance
(Tw) class representative / class president
parent's generation / previous generation
the Six Dynasties period (222-589) between Han and Tang
reign (of a king, emperor etc)
Heian period (794-1185), period of Japanese history
new age
magnificent style unmatched in his generation (idiom); peerless talent
the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods / Eastern Zhou (770-221 BC)
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
Sui dynasty (581-617)
ice age
children of entrepreneurs who became wealthy under Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the 1980s / see also 窮二代|穷二代
Hyundai, South Korean company
contemporary
the Bronze Age / also written 青銅時代|青铜时代
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
periodization (of history)
from generation to generation / generation after generation
Zhou dynasty (1046-221 BC)
Nara period (710-794) in early Japanese history
the Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
previous generation
Archaeozoic (geological era before 2500m years ago)
second generation only child
Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC
to be blessed with rare and radiant beauty (idiom)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English author
feudal times
reform and renewal / generational change
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
(loanword) sundae
Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), founded by the Jurchen 女真 people of North China, a precursor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)
a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season
Asuka Period in Japanese history (538-710 AD)
Song of the Southern dynasties (420-479), with capital at Nanjing
Phanerozoic, geological eon lasting since the Cambrian 寒武紀|寒武纪, c. 540m year ago
Proterozoic (geological era 2500-540m years ago)
children of celebrities

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