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life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL:個|个,條|条)
HSK 3
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
life span / life expectancy / lifetime (of a machine)
HSK 7-9
life
HSK 7-9
to cause sb's death / extremely; terribly / (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance
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
to appoint / (job) appointment / CL: 紙|纸
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
life / to survive / to save a life / to scrape a living
to commit suicide / to have one's life cut short
to kill sb / to murder
to preserve one's life; to ensure one's survival
to flee / to go into exile (from prison)
(idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
to report on completion of a mission / debriefing
vitamin (loanword)
(idiom) terribly busy / up to one's ears in work
to demand sb's life
to plot and kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money
to lose one's life / to die / recklessly / desperately
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
deference is no substitute for obedience (idiom) / (said to accept sb's request, invitation etc)
to be content with what one is
Mandate of Heaven / destiny / fate / one's life span
to consider oneself to be (sth positive)
to have disregard for human life (idiom)
October Revolution
Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster / an unnatural death
life expectancy
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)
see 拼命
human life / CL: 條|条
to risk one's life
to die (in an accident etc) / to have one's life cut short
to die young / short-lived
to escape / to flee / to run for one's life
to spare sb's life
to accept misfortunes as decreed by fate / to be resigned to sth
to accept an order
ordained or appointed to a post / to benefit from counsel
predestination / karma
against orders / to disobey / to refuse to accept orders
hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate
Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
to pay with one's life
to die / to perish
to receive orders / to follow orders / to act under orders
(idiom) to take on a leadership role at a time of crisis
to obey an order / to comply / to do sb's bidding / to do as requested
French Revolution (1789-1799)
to await orders; to be on call
counterrevolutionary
lit. to love money as much as one's own life (idiom) / fig. avaricious / tightfisted
life and death are ruled by fate (idiom)
person's lot through life
Imperial order or edict (old)
the Tang and Wu Revolts: the overthrow (c. 1600 BC) of the Xia Dynasty by the first king, Tang 商湯|商汤, of the Shang Dynasty, and the overthrow (c. 1046 BC) of the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou Dynasty founder, King Wu 周武王
old democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
to die
doom / death / desperately
fatal / resulting in sb's death
(idiom) to settle down and pursue one's path in life
to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs
to fight with all one has
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)
against orders / to disobey / to refuse to accept orders
to follow your orders / to do as you bid
to lose one's life / to get killed
to give sincere advice (idiom) / to exhort earnestly
disobedient / to violate the Mandate of Heaven (天命)
to sacrifice one's life in a crisis
unnatural death; violent death
to follow orders / to abide by / to obey
commandment
to rush about on errands / to be kept on the run
fate / one's fortune
stingy; penny-pinching
exerting all one's strength
amphetamine (medical) (loanword)
your order (honorific)
to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky
to press sb to death / fig. to pressurize sb continually
variant of 殞命|殒命 / to die / to perish
to lay down one's life
(Tw) to have been dealt a hard lot in life (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [pháinn-miā])
the will of Heaven / the will of God
to give orders
(Maoism) New Democracy (aka New Democratic Revolution)
to love wine as one's life (idiom); fond of the bottle
methamphetamine
ketamine (C13H16ClNO) (slang)
(of a team) to throw oneself into the battle
to disobey

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