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variable
mutable / volatile / variable
sudden change / mutation
(physics) to undergo nuclear fission / (fig.) to break apart, forming smaller units; to fragment
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to change / to become different / to transform / to vary / rebellion
HSK 2
to change dramatically / radical change
to show no understanding of the times (idiom); cannot adapt to current circumstances / not amenable to reason
(literary) to evolve; to change / (physics) transmutation
coup d'état
Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争
mutiny / (Tw) to be dumped by one's girlfriend while serving in the army
to become moldy
wind shear (meteorology)
genetic mutation
to develop; to evolve
HSK 7-9
(idiom) when you hit bottom, you have to come up with a new approach
great changes
military coup
atomic fission / nuclear fission / fission
(idiom) to deal with varying circumstances by adhering to a basic principle
half-period of a wave motion / alternation
constant / unvarying / (math.) invariant
incident / unforeseen event / events (in general)
fickle / mercurial / changeable / capricious / to be apt to change
to transform / to morph / to degenerate / metamorphosis / transmutation / transformation / decay / degeneration
to change shape in a single shake / fig. to take on a new lease of life
coup by Dowager Empress Cixi 慈禧太后 ending the 1898 attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
to change / to transform / shift / transformation / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to defect / to betray / to mutiny
unchanging since times immemorial (idiom) / unalterable / unvarying / monotonous
deformation; bending
lit. to turn pale at the mention of a tiger (idiom) / fig. to be terrified at the thought (of it)
the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria / also known as Liutiaogou incident 柳條溝事變|柳条沟事变
marriage upheaval (infidelity, divorce etc) / marriage breakup
elastic deformation
mass uprising / popular revolt / civil commotion
ever-changing
to change / to alter / to transform
HSK 2
to change according to the situation (idiom); pragmatic
gradual change / (graphic design) gradient
North China Incident of October-December 1935, a Japanese attempt to set up a puppet government in north China
(of a caterpillar etc) to metamorphose / (fig.) to undergo a dramatic positive change (e.g. urban renewal, industrial reform, economic advance etc)
to become cancerous / transformation to malignancy (of body cells)
customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners / O Tempora, O Mores!
nuclear fusion
to turn pale at the mention of sex; prudish
Shanghai Incident of 28th January 1932, Chinese uprising against Japanese quarters of Shanghai
fissionable
huge changes
lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom) / fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was
loss of love / breakup of a relationship
to sell off sth
improvisation / flexible / adaptable / pragmatic
unsuccessful and bloody Korean palace coup in 1884 by Westernisers against conservatives, crushed by Qing troops
restrain your grief, accept fate (condolence phrase)
(physics) to undergo fusion
Xi'an Incident of 12th December 1936 (kidnap of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石)
understanding and adaptable
qualitative change / fundamental change
shearing / shear deformation
radioactive decay
modulation / to modulate (electronics)
Korean War (dating from North Korean invasion on 25th Jun 1950)
catastrophe / cataclysmic change
the military revolt of 960 that led Zhao Kuangyin 趙匡胤|赵匡胤 to found the Song dynasty
in an instant a myriad changes (idiom); rapid substantial change
fickle / (math.) multivariate
nuclear transformation / nuclear transmutation
Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争
reversing (e.g. electric current)
to fight corruption and forestall moral degeneration
Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗
quantitative change
radical change
shear (physics)
New Fourth Army Incident of 1940, involving fighting between the Nationalists and Communists
the crisis year of 1900 involving the Boxer uprising and the eight nation military invasion
distortion / aberration
the Yellow Turbans Peasant Uprising at the end of later Han (from 184)
calamitous turn of events / (of one's complexion) to change markedly due to shock, illness etc; to turn deathly pale
to change suddenly; to change abruptly
counterrevolutionary coup of 12th April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek's coup against the communists in Shanghai
Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争
emergency management
to change precipitously
to do whatever is expedient
missense mutation
creep (materials science)
to adapt to circumstances
the coup of 12th Mar 1927, an attempt by Chiang Kai-shek to suppress the communists / called 反革命政變|反革命政变 or 慘案|惨案 in PRC literature
to develop / to evolve
missense mutation
(idiom) immutable; impervious to change; set in stone
HSK 7-9
pathological changes / lesion / diseased (kidney, cornea etc)
phonetic change
to flow and change / development and change (of society)
radioactive decay
(math.) complex variable
mutiny / rebellion
HSK 7-9
to meet a contingency; to adapt oneself to changes

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