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life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL:個|个,條|条)
HSK 3
fate; destiny / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
order / command / CL: , 個|个
HSK 5
to save sb's life / (interj.) Help! / Save me!
HSK 6
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  *命* | 命* | *命
life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc
HSK 6
mission / long-term task to which one devotes oneself / a calling
HSK 7-9
to give a name to / to dub / to christen / to designate / named after / naming
HSK 7-9
life
HSK 7-9
life span / life expectancy / lifetime (of a machine)
HSK 7-9
fatal / mortal / deadly / to sacrifice one's life
HSK 7-9
to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning) / revolution / revolutionary / to revolt (against sb or sth) / to revolutionize (sth) / (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern noun的命) / CL:
HSK 7-9
proposition (logic, math.) / to assign an essay topic
HSK 7-9
to cause sb's death / extremely; terribly / (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance
HSK 7-9
to appoint / (job) appointment / CL: 紙|纸
HSK 7-9
lifeline
HSK 7-9
mutually dependent for life (idiom); to rely upon one another for survival / interdependent
HSK 7-9
to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it
HSK 7-9
a revolutionary
horoscope
vitamin (loanword)
fortune-telling / to tell fortune
to lose one's life / to die / recklessly / desperately
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
Mandate of Heaven / destiny / fate / one's life span
to hit (a target)
to commit suicide / to have one's life cut short
Second Revolution, campaign from 1913 of the provisional revolutionary government (under Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang) against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 and the Northern Warlords
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
vitality
to preserve one's life; to ensure one's survival
to die young / short-lived
to work tirelessly; to give one's all; to slave away / to throw away one's life; to sacrifice oneself (usu. for an unworthy cause)
to lose one's life
to gamble with life / to take reckless risks
to spare sb's life
life / to survive / to save a life / to scrape a living
see 拼命
life expectancy
revolutionary
year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支
to accept an order
to meet violent death / to get killed
ordained or appointed to a post / to benefit from counsel
to be predestined
predestination / karma
to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs
to fight with all one has
(one's) last straw to clutch at; one's last hope
hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate
decreed by fate (idiom) / destined / fated
(idiom) parents' orders and matchmaker's services (in establishing an arranged marriage)
to die / to perish
to risk one's life
mortal wound / (fig.) fatal weakness / Achilles' heel
(idiom) terribly busy / up to one's ears in work
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster / an unnatural death
hit rate / scoring rate
to obey an order / to comply / to do sb's bidding / to do as requested
fortune-teller
deference is no substitute for obedience (idiom) / (said to accept sb's request, invitation etc)
(idiom) to take on a leadership role at a time of crisis
human life is beyond value (idiom)
to follow obediently
(computing) to rename
brave man, willing to risk his life
(TCM) the right kidney / (TCM) acupuncture point GV-4, midway between the kidneys / the region between the kidneys / the eyes / (fortune-telling) the temples / (fig.) most critical or vulnerable point
martyr of the revolution
National Revolutionary Army
saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)
to await orders; to be on call
to be unlucky
to die
to be content with what one is
October Revolution
counterrevolutionary
nomenclature
(Buddhism) recollection of past lives / wisdom of past lives (one of six supernatural powers of Buddhas and arhats)
to sacrifice one's life in a crisis
to pay with one's life
to die (in an accident etc) / to have one's life cut short
(idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
Imperial order or edict (old)
homicide case / murder case
to escape / to flee / to run for one's life
Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830
martyr to the revolution
lit. to love money as much as one's own life (idiom) / fig. avaricious / tightfisted
to plot and kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money
fatalism / fatalistic
person's lot through life
We wish you long life and riches! (idiom, conventional greeting)
against orders / to disobey / to refuse to accept orders
unnatural death; violent death
fatal / resulting in sb's death
(idiom) to settle down and pursue one's path in life
to visit the Yellow Springs / to die
lucky (to have escaped death or serious injury)
to have a tough life / to meet much adversity in one's life

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