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teacher / gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:
HSK 1
student / schoolchild
HSK 1
doctor / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 1
primary school student / schoolchild / CL: 個|个, / (fig.) beginner
HSK 1
university student; college student
HSK 1
schoolgirl / female student / girl
HSK 1
middle-school student / high school student
HSK 1
schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male)
HSK 1
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to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student
HSK 2
all one's life; throughout one's life
HSK 2
student studying abroad; returned student; foreign student; international student
HSK 2
exam candidate / student whose name has been put forward for an exam
HSK 2
to be born
HSK 2
to arise; to come into being; to come about / to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
HSK 3
life (one's time on earth)
HSK 3
to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
HSK 3
hygienic; sanitary / hygiene; sanitation
HSK 3
graduate student / postgraduate student / research student
HSK 4
graduate
HSK 4
to enroll new students / to get students
HSK 5
peanut / CL:
HSK 6
teachers and students
HSK 6
wild / undomesticated
HSK 6
to be reborn / to regenerate / to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person) / recycling / regeneration
HSK 6
to be born
HSK 6
to flee for one's life
HSK 7-9
new / newborn / emerging / nascent / rebirth / regeneration / new life / new student
HSK 7-9
to maintain good health / to raise a child or animal / curing (of concrete etc)
HSK 7-9
nature / disposition / innate / natural
HSK 7-9
one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) / biological (parents) / birth (parents)
HSK 7-9
throughout one's life / lifetime; lifelong
HSK 7-9
to give rise to / to derive / derivative / derivation
HSK 7-9
regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) / self-reliance
HSK 7-9
to die / to lose one's life
HSK 7-9
(adj.) twin
HSK 7-9
to seek one's livelihood / to work to support oneself / to earn a living
HSK 7-9
strange; unfamiliar
HSK 7-9
lit. to praise the dead and revile the living / fig. to live in the past (idiom)
people's livelihood / people's welfare
to be reborn / to live in paradise (Buddhism) / to die / (after) one's death
PhD student; doctoral candidate
(area where) vegetation grows / the common people
sliced raw fish
(dialect) very; quite; properly; well; thoroughly
favorite pupil
to design an artificial system, taking inspiration from a living organism; bionic; biomimetic
to end one's suffering by dying quickly and being reincarnated / (fig.) to get it over with
brilliant student
"Mr Democracy", phrase used during the May 4th Movement 五四運動|五四运动 / abbr. for 德謨克拉西|德谟克拉西 / see also 賽先生|赛先生
starring male role in a Chinese opera
(Tw) university student (abbr. for 大學生|大学生)
student on duty / prefect
planned childbirth / birth control / family planning / abbr. for 計劃生育|计划生育
to live out one's life / to die
nursing student / (Buddhism) to preserve the lives of all living beings
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian dramatist, author of Doll's House 玩偶之家
inspiration in a moment of desperation (idiom) / also written 情急之下
to be reborn / rebirth
this life
to live forever / eternal life / all one's life
senior high school student
(botany) opposite leaf arrangement / paired leaf arrangement
scholar / intellectual / egghead
to pressure a younger relative to hurry up and have a baby / (obstetrics) to induce labor / to expedite childbirth / (fig.) to be a driving force in bringing sth into existence
newborn / nascent / primary (biology)
symbiosis
intern (student)
to seek survival / to possess the will to live
long life
a suicide / to commit suicide
parents (father and mother)
resurrection / rebirth / reinvigorated / rejuvenated / a new lease of life
the remaining years of one's life / survival (after a disaster)
all living things
student who also works part-time / (old) reform-school student
peaceful / restful / quiet / still
to rise from the ashes (idiom) / to thrive again after surviving an ordeal
to breed / to flourish / to cause / to provoke / to create
environmental sanitation / abbr. to 環衛|环卫
lit. to escape from the tiger's mouth (idiom) / fig. to narrowly escape death
to celebrate a birthday
student of overseas Chinese descent who returns to mainland China or Taiwan to pursue their studies (abbr. for 華僑學生|华侨学生)
Edison (name) / Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American inventor and businessman
Kang Sheng (1896-1975), Chinese communist leader, a politburo member during the Cultural Revolution and posthumously blamed for some of its excesses
all one's life / lifetime
stiff / rigid / inflexible / forcibly
to burgeon / to produce / to conceive / to be in the initial stage
to take the life of a living creature
to bear humiliation to save one's skin (idiom)
domestic animal / brute / bastard
next life
to sketch from nature / to do a still life drawing
to breed; to multiply
vivid and lifelike (idiom); true to life / realistic
Master's degree student
auditor (student)
to be reborn / to recover / to come back to life / to regenerate
young generation / youth / young man
to emerge to meet a historic destiny (idiom) / to arise at an opportune time / able to take advantage of an opportunity / to rise to the occasion

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