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to change or replace / to experience / one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided / watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)
HSK 3
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more / even more / further / still / still more
HSK 3
to replace the old with new / to renew / to renovate / to upgrade / to update / to regenerate
HSK 6
to correct / to make a correction
HSK 6
more (than sth else) / even more
to alter
to change / to alter / to modify
to replace (a worn-out tire etc) / to change (one's address etc)
to change name
resurrection / rebirth / reinvigorated / rejuvenated / a new lease of life
third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old) / midnight / also pr. [san1 jin1]
Dickens (name) / Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old)
to patrol at night, marking the time by sounding clappers or gongs
menopause / andropause
to make a new start / to regenerate
to take over (from one another) / to alternate / to replace / to relay
night watchman (in former times)
to alternate / to change
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) / self-reliance
to change / to replace / to alter
change room; dressing room; locker room / (euphemism) toilet
to take it up a notch / to bring it up a level
reform and renewal / generational change
lit. to restring one's bow / to reform and start over again
in the dead of night (idiom)
redbreast / robin
(in the spring) nature takes on a new look (idiom)
to change clothes / to go to the toilet (euphemism)
alternately / by turns
water clock used to mark night watches
first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old)
to stay up through the night (idiom)
lit. after climbing a hundred feet up a pole, one should go even further (idiom) / fig. even if one has achieved a measure of success, one should strive to do even better
substitution / replacing former general / change of leader
international date line
Huygens (name) / Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695), Dutch mathematician and astronomer
one watch (i.e. two-hour period during night)
in the depth of the night; very late at night
to keep watch during the night
in the depth of night / late at night
deep night
watch tower / drum tower marking night watches
dental transition (from milk teeth to adult teeth)
even more
soldier (serving alternate watch)
to replace the old with new (idiom)
deep at night and all is quiet (idiom)
drum marking night watches / night watchman's clapper
Pleistocene (geological epoch from 2m years ago, covering the most recent ice ages)
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
to be even better than / to be superior to
to moonlight
fourth of the five night watch periods 01:00-03:00 (old)
superior by a notch / a cut above / even better
deep at night
to sound the night watches (on clappers or gongs, in former times)
even more (so)
first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old)
second of the five night watch periods 21:00-23:00 (old)
(slang) (of a follower) to urge (a blogger etc) to post some fresh content (abbr. for 催促更新)
dynamic update (Internet)
too many to count / very many / innumerable
(Internet slang) to update one's blog
new edition / new version / update
furthermore (idiom)
to change / to substitute
high performance
I am who I am (and I'm not ashamed) / fig. to be proud of one's name and stand by one's actions
urban development project


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