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century / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
HSK 3
to manage (a business) / manager / broker
pre-Cambrian, geological period before c. 540m years ago
Jurassic (geological period 205-140m years ago)
medieval / Middle Ages
law and order
Genesis (first book of the Bible) / the Creation, an epic poem of the Naxi 納西|纳西 ethnic group
creation myth
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surname Ji / also pr. [Ji4]
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order / discipline / age / era / period / to chronicle
lack of discipline / to break a rule / to violate discipline / to breach a principle
Cambrian geological period (541-485.4 million years ago)
Cretaceous (geological period 140-65m years ago)
(of a person) to get old
fourth period / quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years)
Ordovician (geological period 495-440m years ago)
lit. to break the law and violate the rules (idiom) / fig. misconduct
with no regard for law or discipline (idiom); flouting the law and disregarding all rules / in complete disorder
rules for political staff / political discipline
Carboniferous (geological period 354-292m years ago)
Silurian (geological period 440-417m years ago)
biographic sketch of an emperor
law and order / rules and discipline
standard of behavior / moral standards / discipline
Triassic (geological period 250-205m years ago) / also written 三疊紀|三叠纪
Permian (geological period 292-250m years ago) / also written 二疊紀|二叠纪
Permian (geological period 292-250m years ago)
to be getting on in years / to be of the older generation
20th century
Nihonshoki or Chronicles of Japan (c. 720) book of mythology and history
third period / tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)
to be of an advanced age; to be old / an advanced age
Triassic (geological period 250-205m years ago)
to break the rules / to break discipline
21st century
(geology) the Holocene Epoch
Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)
Ediacaran period (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era
Eocene (geological epoch from 55m-34m years ago)
Devonian (geological period 417-354m years ago)
examination discipline / (Tw) performance assessment and discipline (abbr. for 考核 + 紀律|纪律), used in reference to internal review and oversight functions within political parties
Sinian (c. 800-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era


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