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volunteer
HSK 3
magazine / CL: , ,
HSK 3
will; willpower; determination
HSK 5
sign; mark; symbol; logo / to symbolize; to indicate; to mark
HSK 4
aspiration / ambition / to volunteer
HSK 3
comrade / (slang) homosexual / CL: , 個|个
HSK 7-9
unity of will is an impregnable stronghold (idiom)
HSK 7-9
History of the Three Kingdoms, fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Chen Shou 陳壽|陈寿 in 289 during Jin Dynasty 晉朝|晋朝, 65 scrolls
(idiom) single-minded; fully focused
(idiom) person with the passion and resolve to pursue noble ideals
traffic sign
Deutschland; Germany
to accomplish one's ambition / a dream come true / to enjoy success
to pursue a goal with determination / inspirational; motivational
HSK 7-9
great goal / magnificent aspiration
emotion / mood
willpower
ambition / resolve / backbone / drive / spirit
HSK 7-9
volunteer army
gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals
(literary) to make a mental note; to memorize
general history of a county / county annals
having high fighting spirit
blog / weblog / same as 博客
(idiom) to be devoted to a common cause; to be like-minded
Xu Zhimo (1897-1931), writer and poet
lit. trifling destroys the will (idiom); infatuation with fine details prevents one making progress / excessive attention to trivia saps the will
(Tw) a volunteer
magazine publisher
lit. a vile character flourishes (idiom) / fig. an inferior person gets into a position of power, becoming conceited and arrogant
to aspire to travel far and make one's mark (idiom)
the mission in life of a deceased person, left to others to carry on
enormously proud of one's success (idiom); smug / complacent
to be ambitious
ambitious
ambition / goal / ideal / aspiration
Lexus, luxury vehicle brand of Toyota Motor Corporation
iconic
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), former Vietnamese leader / see also 胡志明市
signal / sign (traffic control etc)
will / resolution / aspiration
the Chinese People's Volunteer Army deployed by China to aid North Korea in 1950
to be determined / to be resolved
free will
to demonstrate one's sincere convictions
(Tw) (coll.) matter; thing (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [tāi-tsì], equivalent to Mandarin 事情)
consciousness / state of mind / compos mentis
don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say
ethnography
(idiom) poor but with great ambitions; poor but principled
volunteer soldier / CL:
to become demoralized / to lose one's sense of purpose
Ho Chi Minh City a.k.a. Saigon, Vietnam
local chronicles / district records
to demonstrate one's sincerity by dying
Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, then executed in 1975 after opposing the counterrevolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979
never to be forgotten
Ru Zhijuan (1925-1998), female novelist and politician
don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say
voluntarism / metaphysical view, esp. due to Schopenhauer 叔本華|叔本华, that the essence of the world is willpower
high aspiration
Federal Republic of Germany / former West Germany 1945-1990, now simply Germany
to take an oath to do sth / to pledge / to vow
journal / log (computing)
First book of Chronicles
libertarianism
high aims
Second book of Chronicles
fully content with one's achievements (idiom) / complacent
to write about mysterious or supernatural things
tales of the supernatural (genre of fiction)
Fan Zhiyi (1969-), soccer player
Tsai Chih Chung (1948-), famous Taiwanese cartoonist specializing in retelling the Chinese classics
Pinterest (photo-sharing website)
persevere and you will succeed (idiom); where there's a will, there's a way
Lin Chi-ling (1974-), Taiwanese model and actress
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations
will to fight / fighting spirit
HSK 7-9
the will to live
to pay respects to the dead / to mark sb's passing
a really determined person will find a solution (idiom); where there's a will, there's a way
gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals
Demosistō, a pro-democracy political party in Hong Kong, established in 2016
epitaph
high-spirited and smug
History of the Liao Dynasty, 13th-century book on the history of the Khitan Empire (916-1125)
aspiration
soured by the loss of one's hopes
Shangzhi, a county-level city in Harbin City 哈爾濱市|哈尔滨市, Heilongjiang
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Qing dynasty book of tales by 蒲松齡|蒲松龄
poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *志* | 志* | *志
aspiration / ambition / the will
to have one's ambitions elsewhere (idiom)
shigellosis / bacillary dysentery
living a simple life as one's ideal (idiom)
to be delirious / to be mentally confused
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *志* | 志* | *志
sign / mark / to record / to write a footnote
Da Yuan Dayitongzhi, Yuan dynasty geographical encyclopedia, compiled 1285-1294 under Jamal al-Din 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁 and Yu Yinglong 虞應龍|虞应龙, 755 scrolls
inclination / interest

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