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heritage / legacy / inheritance / bequest / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 4
heredity / to inherit (a trait) / to pass on (to one's offspring)
HSK 4
regret / to regret / to be sorry that
HSK 6
to leave / to abandon
HSK 7-9
to forget; to cease to think about (sb or sth) anymore
HSK 7-9
remains (of a dead person)
HSK 7-9
ruins / historic relics
HSK 7-9
testament / will
HSK 7-9
to leave behind / to hand down
HSK 7-9
(medicine) sequelae / residual effects / (fig.) repercussions / aftermath
HSK 7-9
remnant
HSK 7-9
final wishes of the departed
HSK 7-9
posthumous edict (of former emperor)
to bequeath
the bereaved / family of the deceased
genetic engineering
addendum
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(bound form) to leave behind
nocturnal emission / wet dream
tradition or style from the past / old ways / surviving tradition / relic
picture of the deceased
inheritance tax / estate tax
to overlook / to miss / to omit
wet dream; nocturnal emission
to spare no pains or effort (idiom); to do one's utmost
to lose; to leave behind (inadvertently)
to show in full light / to be revealed in its entirety
bed-wetting
to pocket a lost article / (fig.) to correct others' errors / to remedy omissions (in a text etc)
words of the deceased / last words of the dying / wisdom of past sages
to leave behind (inadvertently) / to forget / to omit / to leave out
to lay bare / to come to light
trace / vestige / historical remains / remnant
widow
orphan
to have one's name go down in history as a byword for infamy (idiom)
posthumous writing / testament / suicide note / ancient literature
posthumous child
undiscovered talent (idiom)
survivors / remnants / relict (species etc)
surviving family of the deceased
lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society
work or plans left as a legacy / the views of the departed / posthumous orders or teachings
unrecognized talent
lit. to foster an ulcer and bequeath a calamity (idiom); tolerating budding evil can only lead to disaster / to cherish a viper in one's bosom
portrait of the deceased
unsolved case (law)
to have eternal regrets (idiom)
historical remains / things that have survived since ancient times / (of such things) to survive
Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom); fig. if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later / to cherish a snake in one's bosom
exhaustive / thorough
Banpo neolithic Yangshao culture archaeological site east of Xi'an 西安
posthumous work (of a writer)
(dead) human remains
(lit.) leftover men / (fig.) loyalist adherents of a former dynasty / surviving members of an ethnic group
surviving manuscript / bequeathed draft (of book)
posthumous (painting, calligraphy, prose etc)
wishes of the deceased
genetics
vacancy
the mission in life of a deceased person, left to others to carry on
detailed and nothing left out (idiom); meticulous and comprehensive / not missing an iota
eternal regret
living fossil
cultural heritage
(UNESCO) intangible cultural heritage
epigenetics
optogenetics
all dead and no survivors
molecular genetics
genetic disorder
(bird species of China) relict gull (Ichthyaetus relictus)
to concentrate on trivial points while neglecting the main problem (idiom)
hereditary / inherited / genetic
Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黃父鬼|黄父鬼
historic site
completely; fully; without omission
genetic material
to shed skin / to leave one's mortal envelope / remains (of a priest)
be plainly visible
ruins of Cherchen, Qarqan or Chiemo, archaeological site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
(UNESCO) World Cultural Heritage
World Heritage site
posthumous edict of a former emperor / Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 edict to posterity
to tolerate is to abet
to remedy omissions and correct errors (idiom)
(biology) to egest / egesta (feces, scat etc)
heritage; historical legacy
Hemudu neolithic archaeological site near Ningbo 長江|长江 in Zhejiang, going back to c. 5000 BC
to send (sb) on a mission / to dispatch
to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status
to leave behind / sb's legacy
damaged beyond repair
anecdote (about historical person) / lost or apocryphal story
lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society
posthumous work
genetic information

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