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to live / life / livelihood
HSK 2
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  *活* | 活* | *活
to live / alive / living / work / workmanship
HSK 3
happy / cheerful
HSK 5
flexible / nimble / agile
HSK 6
to activate
HSK 7-9
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
HSK 7-9
to be really busy / pressing business
HSK 7-9
to provide for / to keep (animals, a family etc) / to raise animals / to feed and clothe / support / the necessities of life / to give birth
HSK 7-9
life or death / fate / no matter what / anyway / for the life of me
specialty / unique skill
heavy work
to work; to be employed
to live one's life / to make a living
to act recklessly (idiom)
vivid; lively / (of food ingredients) live or fresh
to work for a living (esp. of woman needleworker) / life of a group of stones in Go 圍棋|围棋
bitter work / sweated labor
to finish a job on time / to produce the goods
to tire oneself out through overwork / to work oneself to death
to survive (a serious accident) / survival
to survive
to bring back to life
while still alive / simply / totally
lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries / two parties cannot coexist
odd jobs
half dead / more dead than alive
to revitalize (assets, resources etc)
unskilled labor / heavy manual work
one's utmost / (to fight or work) desperately hard / to put up a life or death struggle / at all costs
to enliven / to invigorate / to revitalize
LOHAS (lifestyles of health and sustainability)
private life
to come to life (by magic)
(Beijing dialect) done; finished; complete
trick / deception
slow living
to work / to do manual labor
to appreciate life
spiritual or moral life
Notopterygium root (root of Notopterygium incisum)
to save life / to rescue / the whole business with all its processes
job paid according to the amount of work done / contract work
being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public figures who are brazenly xenophobic but whose family live abroad)
oral sex
night life
household chore
parasitism; parasitic existence
sex life
manipulation (e.g. ball handling in sport) / hand job
(northern dialect) to pick up a fare (as a taxi driver) / to pick up a piece of work (as a courier)
to take on a piece of work / to pick up some freelance work / (of a taxi driver) to pick up a fare
political life
piecework
lit. if moved to a new location, a tree will die, but a person will live (idiom) / fig. human beings, unlike trees, thrive on change
(of an actor) to bring (one's character) to life / to act brilliantly
to waste one's life; to fail to make the most of one's life
to work as amateur for no pay
to subsist / to eke out a living / to keep body and soul together
terribly / awfully / desperately
to eke out a living / to live from hand to mouth / to drift aimlessly
farm work
needlework / sewing
time served in prison / prison life


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