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to conspire; to plot / a conspiracy; a plot
HSK 6
to seek; to strive for
HSK 7-9
staff officer / to give advice
HSK 7-9
to seek one's livelihood / to work to support oneself / to earn a living
HSK 7-9
to conspire to murder / to plot against sb's life
HSK 7-9
resourceful / full of stratagems
HSK 7-9
a long-term plan / an ambitious strategy
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to plan / to seek / scheme
to agree without prior consultation / to happen to hold the same view
trickery / tactics
army Chief of Staff
resourcefulness; ingenuity
skilled manipulator / tactician / strategist / advisor / counsellor
to conspire; to plot together
to murder / to assassinate / intentional homicide
to make a profit / to gain / to get an advantage
to put forward plans and ideas (also derogatory) / to give advice (idiom)
to scheme / to plot / conspiracy
to seek / to strive for / to obtain / see also 牟取
to meet
stratagem; scheme
planning is with man, accomplishing with heaven (idiom); Man proposes but God disposes.
to conspire with sb / to plot / a conspirator / a partner in crime / an accomplice
stratagem / strategy / resourcefulness
to work out a strategy; to come up with a plan for
schemer / conspirator
to scheme together / to conspire / joint plan / conspiracy
to plan matters / to look for a job
conspiracy / secret plan / to conspire
premeditated / to plan sth in advance (esp. a crime)
to premeditate; to plot
to plan and consider / to reflect on one's best strategy
lit. deep plans and distant thoughts / to plan far ahead (idiom)
imperial strategic adviser / expert on strategy
lit. to negotiate with a tiger for its pelt (idiom); fig. to ask sb to act contrary to their own interests
to plot and kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money
rigorous schemes and deep foresight (idiom); astute and circumspect
bold but not very astute (idiom)
a well-thought out long-term strategy
stratagem / scheme / shrewdness
to look for a job / to seek employment
(idiom) to ask sb to act contrary to their own interests (original form of the expression 與虎謀皮|与虎谋皮)
to use influence to get what one wants / to find a way through (esp. corrupt) / to succeed by means fair or foul
lit. ask passers-by how to build one's house (idiom); fig. to have no idea what to do / without a clue
forethought
Zhang Yimou (1950-), PRC film director
to conspire
to conspire openly / overt plot
stratagem; scheme
to plot to assassinate
to make a living / to strive to earn a living
to do business / to manage / to strive for / to use every possible means (toward a goal)
profound or erudite plans
chief of staff
(military) General Staff Headquarters
Mozilla China, software company founded in 2005, headquartered in Beijing
premeditated
Yuanmou County in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture 楚雄彝族自治州, Yunnan
conspirator
murder
stratagem (political or military) / trick
don't meddle in affairs that are not part of your position (Confucius)
(idiom) great plans can be ruined by just a touch of impatience
(idiom) unable to plan; inept at strategy
strategic experts and powerful generals (idiom)
(idiom) to take matters into one's own hands / to go it alone / to fend for oneself / to find one's own way forward (esp. to find oneself a job)
conspiracy theory
mastermind / ringleader / lead plotter
to use one's position for personal gain (idiom)
conspiracy
to get a better job somewhere else (idiom) / to seek alternative employment
to be good at working for one's own profit (idiom)
to conspire
(idiom) resourceful and decisive; resolute and sagacious
to consider / to turn over in one's mind
(idiom) to have never met / to be complete strangers
(military) Chief of Staff
to plot a rebellion / to conspire against the state
to get / to obtain
murder case
strategic experts as thick as rain (idiom); no shortage of advisers on strategy
strategic experts and powerful generals (idiom)
lit. persons who walk different paths cannot make plans together / to go separate ways (idiom)
crafty plots and machinations (idiom)
the crime of conspiracy to overthrow the government
unpremeditated
premeditated murder


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