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  *活* | 活* | *活
to live / alive / living / work / workmanship
HSK 3
to live / life / livelihood
HSK 2
happy / cheerful
HSK 5
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
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
flexible / nimble / agile
HSK 6
to be really busy / pressing business
HSK 7-9
LOHAS (lifestyles of health and sustainability)
farm work
sex life
to survive (a serious accident) / survival
to appreciate life
to tire oneself out through overwork / to work oneself to death
night life
to work; to be employed
household chore
to come back to life (after death)
while still alive / simply / totally
to live one's life / to make a living
to survive
manipulation (e.g. ball handling in sport) / hand job
to activate
HSK 7-9
to enliven / to invigorate / to revitalize
private life
vivid; lively / (of food ingredients) live or fresh
HSK 7-9
life or death / fate / no matter what / anyway / for the life of me
political life
half dead / more dead than alive
to work for a living (esp. of woman needleworker) / life of a group of stones in Go 圍棋|围棋
(of an enzyme, microorganism, catalyst etc) to lose biological or chemical activity; to become inactivated
trick / deception
to finish a job on time / to produce the goods
spiritual or moral life
to revitalize (assets, resources etc)
to work / to do manual labor
one's utmost / (to fight or work) desperately hard / to put up a life or death struggle / at all costs
to come to life (by magic)
parasitic life (of an organism); (fig.) parasitic lifestyle (of a person)
oral sex
slow living
lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries / two parties cannot coexist
job paid according to the amount of work done / contract work
unskilled labor / heavy manual work
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
to subsist / to eke out a living / to keep body and soul together
Notopterygium root (root of Notopterygium incisum)
to bring back to life
(Beijing dialect) done; finished; complete
to save life / to rescue / the whole business with all its processes
(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
to act recklessly (idiom)
to waste one's life; to fail to make the most of one's life
odd jobs
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)
to eke out a living / to live from hand to mouth / to drift aimlessly
heavy work
to live without dignity; to barely sustain oneself
terribly / awfully / desperately
(of an actor) to bring (one's character) to life / to act brilliantly
needlework / sewing
time served in prison / prison life
bitter work / sweated labor
specialty / unique skill
to work as amateur for no pay
piecework


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