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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
to give a lecture; to make a speech
HSK 4
to direct / director (film etc)
HSK 3
play / show / performance / exhibition / to perform / to act / to demonstrate / CL: 場|场
HSK 3
to sing (for an audience) / vocal performance
HSK 3
to screen (a movie) / to stage (a play) / a screening / a staging
HSK 6
vocal recital or concert
HSK 3
actor; actress; performer
HSK 3
to play the leading role; to star / lead actor
HSK 7-9
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 develop; to evolve
HSK 7-9
(PPT etc) presentation
to play the role of / to act
HSK 5
to put on a play / to perform / fig. to pretend / to feign
HSK 7-9
broadcasting studio
HSK 7-9
ever more critical / problems get more and more intense
HSK 7-9
acting / performing skills
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
(of a play, movie etc) to begin
show business
HSK 7-9
(military, firefighting etc) (verb and noun) drill; exercise; maneuver
HSK 7-9
to evolve / evolution
inaugural speech
(theater etc) to tour; to be on tour; to give itinerant performances (abbr. for 巡迴演出|巡回演出)
performer / musician
performance place / CL: 處|处
succession (of changes in an ecological community) / naturally evolving sequence
keynote speech
speech / to deliver a speech
HSK 7-9
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
(theater etc) to tour; to be on tour; to give itinerant performances
to drill; to practice
HSK 7-9
to dramatize historical events / novel or play on historical theme
war-gaming; simulation of a military operation
to perform calculations
extra (actor engaged to appear in a crowd scene) (abbr. for 群眾演員|群众演员)
(of a story etc) to unfold; to play out / to develop (a technique etc) / to enact / (logic) to deduce; to infer
HSK 7-9
keynote speech
to demonstrate / to show / presentation / demonstration
HSK 7-9
theatrical performance / CL: 場|场
to take part in a performance; to appear in (a movie etc)
to deduce / to infer / to derive / an implication
to give a speech
cast (of a movie etc); lineup of performers; troupe
inversion (geometry)
performer
exhibition match
road show or promotional tour (for a product etc)
to appear (in a show etc) / an appearance (on stage etc)
HSK 7-9
joint performance
to repeat an old stratagem / up to one's old tricks
to be intensifying / to be getting worse and worse / to start to run rampant
benefit performance / charity show
maiden stage role / first performance / first public showing
to rehearse (a performance)
to practice martial arts
movie actor / movie actress
natural change / evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化|进化)
acrobat
to act / to play a part
role-playing game (RPG)
to act together / to put on a joint performance
the entertainment world; show business
drill / exercise / demonstration / to demonstrate
(Tw) to screen a movie
to perform a play
enka (Japanese genre of sentimental ballads)
evolution / gradual forward progress
to perform in public; to give a performance
extra (actor engaged to appear in a crowd scene)
joint military exercise
logical calculation
algorithm (Tw)
deductive reasoning
piano performance
to put on extra shows; to extend the run (of a show) / to include an additional element in a show
substitute actor (esp. in fights of theatrical stunts) / stuntman
to lecture / to speak publicly
inaugural lecture
military exercise / war game
to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom) / to rehearse a planned action or activity / to conduct a dry run
(dialect) to perform; to act (in a play etc)
Dramatized history of successive dynasties (from Han to Republican China) by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩
entertainer / performer
audition / dress rehearsal / preview (of a theatrical performance) / dummy run
dummy run / to run through sth / to rehearse
broadcast performance / televised or podcast lecture
military exercises
an extra (in a movie) (abbr. for 臨時演員|临时演员)
commercial performance
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
stuntman
an extra (in a movie)
cosmogony
fashion show
the theory of evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化論|进化论)
orator
leading actors (in a show) / starring
performing arts

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