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to perform (a play etc); to stage (a show) / (bound form) to develop; to play out; to carry out (a task)
HSK 3
actor; actress; performer
HSK 3
to give a lecture; to make a speech
HSK 4
play / show / performance / exhibition / to perform / to act / to demonstrate / CL: 場|场
HSK 3
vocal recital or concert
HSK 3
to sing (for an audience) / vocal performance
HSK 3
to direct / director (film etc)
HSK 3
to screen (a movie) / to stage (a play) / a screening / a staging
HSK 6
show business
HSK 7-9
to play the leading role; to star / lead actor
HSK 7-9
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei as villains
to act (in a play) / to perform / to put on (a performance) / performance / concert / show / CL: 場|场,
HSK 3
to perform on a musical instrument
HSK 6
to put on a play / to perform / fig. to pretend / to feign
HSK 7-9
(PPT etc) presentation
to play the role of / to act
HSK 5
to develop; to evolve
HSK 7-9
to drill; to practice
HSK 7-9
broadcasting studio
HSK 7-9
to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom) / to rehearse a planned action or activity / to conduct a dry run
ever more critical / problems get more and more intense
HSK 7-9
acting / performing skills
HSK 7-9
speech / to deliver a speech
HSK 7-9
to give a speech
cast (of a movie etc); lineup of performers; troupe
military exercise / war game
(of a story etc) to unfold; to play out / to develop (a technique etc) / to enact / (logic) to deduce; to infer
HSK 7-9
benefit performance / charity show
keynote speech
Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王 overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc
to evolve / evolution
(military, firefighting etc) (verb and noun) drill; exercise; maneuver
HSK 7-9
(theater etc) to tour; to be on tour; to give itinerant performances (abbr. for 巡迴演出|巡回演出)
entertainer / performer
deductive reasoning
performer / musician
an extra (in a movie) (abbr. for 臨時演員|临时演员)
succession (of changes in an ecological community) / naturally evolving sequence
orator / speaker
an extra (in a movie)
war-gaming; simulation of a military operation
theatrical performance / CL: 場|场
to perform calculations
the theory of evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化論|进化论)
extra (actor engaged to appear in a crowd scene) (abbr. for 群眾演員|群众演员)
movie actor / movie actress
fashion show
to demonstrate / to show / presentation / demonstration
HSK 7-9
(of a play, movie etc) to begin
to deduce / to infer / to derive / an implication
exhibition match
joint performance
to take part in a performance; to appear in (a movie etc)
inversion (geometry)
performer
performing arts
to perform a play
road show or promotional tour (for a product etc)
(theater etc) to tour; to be on tour; to give itinerant performances
to appear (in a show etc) / an appearance (on stage etc)
HSK 7-9
keynote speech
to repeat an old stratagem / up to one's old tricks
evolution / gradual forward progress
stuntman
to be intensifying / to be getting worse and worse / to start to run rampant
performance place / CL: 處|处
dummy run / to run through sth / to rehearse
maiden stage role / first performance / first public showing
to rehearse (a performance)
acrobat
ventriloquist
to practice martial arts
role-playing game (RPG)
natural change / evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化|进化)
orator
to act together / to put on a joint performance
drill / exercise / demonstration / to demonstrate
(Tw) to screen a movie
to dramatize historical events / novel or play on historical theme
enka (Japanese genre of sentimental ballads)
Dramatized history of Republican China until 1927 by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩, and later chapters by Xu Qinfu 許廑父|许廑父
extra (actor engaged to appear in a crowd scene)
to perform in public; to give a performance
to act / to play a part
Dramatized history of successive dynasties (from Han to Republican China) by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩
the entertainment world; show business
algorithm (Tw)
to lecture / to speak publicly
to put on extra shows; to extend the run (of a show) / to include an additional element in a show
joint military exercise
to stop performing a play / to interrupt a stage run
to go on stage
(dialect) to perform; to act (in a play etc)
history repeats itself
audition / dress rehearsal / preview (of a theatrical performance) / dummy run
military exercises
inaugural lecture
broadcast performance / televised or podcast lecture
logical calculation
piano performance

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