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to change / to become different / to transform / to vary / rebellion
HSK 2
to change / to alter / to transform
HSK 2
to change / to transform / shift / transformation / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to develop; to evolve
HSK 7-9
mutiny / rebellion
HSK 7-9
constant / unvarying / (math.) invariant
restrain your grief, accept fate (condolence phrase)
(idiom) immutable; impervious to change; set in stone
to transform / to morph / to degenerate / metamorphosis / transmutation / transformation / decay / degeneration
to meet a contingency / to adapt oneself to changes
fickle / (math.) multivariate
genetic mutation
pathological changes / lesion / diseased (kidney, cornea etc)
huge changes
sudden change / mutation
gradual change / (graphic design) gradient
qualitative change / fundamental change
variable
incident / unforeseen event / events (in general)
to flow and change / development and change (of society)
military coup
coup d'état
to defect / to betray / to mutiny
to change shape in a single shake / fig. to take on a new lease of life
mutiny / (Tw) to be dumped by one's girlfriend while serving in the army
great changes
in an instant a myriad changes (idiom); rapid substantial change
to change dramatically / radical change
to change suddenly; to change abruptly
(physics) to undergo nuclear fission / (fig.) to break apart, forming smaller units; to fragment
fickle / mercurial / changeable / capricious / to be apt to change
to change according to the situation (idiom); pragmatic
marriage upheaval (infidelity, divorce etc) / marriage breakup
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
improvisation / flexible / adaptable / pragmatic
deformation; bending
distortion / aberration
modulation / to modulate (electronics)
nuclear fusion
mass uprising / popular revolt / civil commotion
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
to develop / to evolve
phonetic change
(literary) to evolve; to change / (physics) transmutation
the military revolt of 960 that led Zhao Kuangyin 趙匡胤|赵匡胤 to found the Song dynasty
loss of love / breakup of a relationship
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
to do whatever is expedient
radioactive decay
lit. to turn pale at the mention of a tiger (idiom) / fig. to be terrified at the thought (of it)
Xi'an Incident of 12th December 1936 (kidnap of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石)
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
(physics) to undergo fusion
creep (materials science)
to adapt to circumstances
quantitative change
atomic fission / nuclear fission / fission
to sell off sth
(idiom) when you hit bottom, you have to come up with a new approach
coup by Dowager Empress Cixi 慈禧太后 ending the 1898 attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
wind shear (meteorology)
calamitous turn of events / (of one's complexion) to change markedly due to shock, illness etc; to turn deathly pale
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
Shanghai Incident of 28th January 1932, Chinese uprising against Japanese quarters of Shanghai
understanding and adaptable
to show no understanding of the times (idiom); cannot adapt to current circumstances / not amenable to reason
shearing / shear deformation
to become moldy
to change precipitously
ever-changing
New Fourth Army Incident of 1940, involving fighting between the Nationalists and Communists
unchanging since times immemorial (idiom) / unalterable / unvarying / monotonous
(idiom) to deal with varying circumstances by adhering to a basic principle
catastrophe / cataclysmic change
the crisis year of 1900 involving the Boxer uprising and the eight nation military invasion
to become cancerous / transformation to malignancy (of body cells)
reversing (e.g. electric current)
radical change
mutable / volatile / variable
missense mutation
(math.) complex variable
the Yellow Turbans Peasant Uprising at the end of later Han (from 184)
half-period of a wave motion / alternation
customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners / O Tempora, O Mores!
Korean War (dating from North Korean invasion on 25th Jun 1950)
shear (physics)
fissionable
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
counterrevolutionary coup of 12th April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek's coup against the communists in Shanghai
(math.) real variable
elastic deformation
to fight corruption and forestall moral degeneration
radioactive decay
nuclear transformation / nuclear transmutation
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
unsuccessful and bloody Korean palace coup in 1884 by Westernisers against conservatives, crushed by Qing troops
emergency management
North China Incident of October-December 1935, a Japanese attempt to set up a puppet government in north China
missense mutation


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