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|  |  | will  /  shall  /  to use  /  to take  /  to checkmate  /  just a short while ago  /  (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把 )  | HSK 5 | 
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|  |  | (in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age  / (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard  / (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc)  |  | 
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|  |  | to checkmate (in chess)  |  | 
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|  |  | lieutenant general; vice admiral; air marshal  |  | 
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|  |  | official gatekeeper  / goalkeeper (soccer, hockey etc)  |  | 
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|  |  | commander-in-chief (military)  / star player (sports)  / key figure (in an organization)  |  | 
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|  |  | lit. old general  /  commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅 , the equivalent of king in Chinese chess  /  fig. old-timer  /  veteran  |  | 
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|  |  | (archaic) adept and valiant military general  /  skilled athlete; top player  /  abbr. for 運動健將|运动健将 |  | 
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|  |  | lit. to dispatch a general is not as effective as to excite a general  / fig. inciting people to action is more effective than dispatching orders  |  | 
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|  |  | (idiom) one's defeated opponent  |  | 
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|  |  | Yang Saga, a popular fiction from the Northern Song, depicting the heroic Yang family 楊業|杨业  of warriors  |  | 
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|  |  | (bound form) a general  / (literary) to command; to lead  / (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)  |  | 
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|  |  | to desire  / to invite  / to request  |  | 
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|  |  | surrendered enemy general  |  | 
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|  |  | valiant general  |  | 
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|  |  | Ba Jia Jiang, the eight generals that guard the godly realm in Taiwanese folklore, represented by troupes of dancers in temple processions  / (slang) lowlife gangster or young hoodlum, often written as "8+9", [ba1 jia1 jiu3]  |  | 
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|  |  | a general or admiral  |  | 
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|  |  | female general  / (fig.) woman who is a leading figure in her area of expertise  |  | 
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|  |  | champion swimmer; swimming star  |  | 
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|  |  | (Tw) (sports) foreign player  / import  |  | 
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|  |  | Liu Bei's five great generals in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, namely: Guan Yu 關羽|关羽 , Zhang Fei 張飛|张飞 , Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云 , Ma Chao 馬超|马超 , Huang Zhong 黃忠|黄忠 |  | 
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|  |  | major general  / rear admiral  / air vice marshal  |  | 
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|  |  | general  / admiral  / air chief marshal  |  | 
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|  |  | fierce general  / valiant military leader  / fig. brave individual  |  | 
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|  |  | enemy general; the opposing side's commander  |  | 
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|  |  | strategic experts and powerful generals (idiom)  |  | 
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|  |  | general  / military leader  / fierce man  |  | 
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|  |  | to play mahjong  |  | 
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|  |  | deputy general  |  | 
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|  |  | brigadier general; commodore  |  | 
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|  |  | celestial troops and generals (idiom)  / fig. superior forces  |  | 
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|  |  | to donate generously (idiom)  |  | 
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|  |  | shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea)  / useless troops (idiom)  |  | 
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|  |  | famous general  / (sports) renowned athlete  |  | 
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|  |  | ruined army, defeated general (idiom); scattered remnants  |  | 
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|  |  | champion-level athlete (title awarded by the General Administration of Sport of China based on performance in international and national competitions)  |  | 
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|  |  | lit. to cross five passes and slay six generals (idiom)  / fig. to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success)  |  | 
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|  |  | general of the household, a mid-ranking military officer responsible for palace or court duties  |  | 
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|  |  | valiant general  |  | 
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|  |  | veteran general  |  | 
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|  |  | to appoint a general (in theater)  / fig. to appoint sb for a task  |  | 
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|  |  | strategic experts and powerful generals (idiom)  |  | 
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|  |  | deputy general  |  | 
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|  |  | trusted lieutenant  |  | 
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|  |  | driver (of a taxi etc) (loanword from Japanese) (Tw)  |  | 
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|  |  | capable person  |  | 
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|  |  | to spur sb into action by making negative remarks  |  | 
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|  |  | ready to start on sth  / about to act  |  | 
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|  |  | to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success) (idiom) (abbr. for 過五關斬六將|过五关斩六将 )  |  | 
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|  |  | will perhaps  / may (in the future)  |  | 
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|  |  | to move an army and send a general (idiom); to deploy an army  / to send a team on a task  |  | 
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