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heredity / to inherit (a trait) / to pass on (to one's offspring)
HSK 4
genetic material
to show in full light / to be revealed in its entirety
heritage / legacy / inheritance / bequest / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 4
regret / to regret / to be sorry that
HSK 6
to spare no pains or effort (idiom); to do one's utmost
to forget; to cease to think about (sb or sth) anymore
HSK 7-9
heritage; historical legacy
ruins / historic relics
HSK 7-9
remnant
HSK 7-9
testament / will
HSK 7-9
to leave / to abandon
HSK 7-9
(UNESCO) World Cultural Heritage
to have disastrous consequences / also written 貽害無窮|贻害无穷
be plainly visible
(medicine) sequelae / residual effects / (fig.) repercussions / aftermath
HSK 7-9
genetic information
(lit.) leftover men / (fig.) loyalist adherents of a former dynasty / surviving members of an ethnic group
words of the deceased / last words of the dying / wisdom of past sages
to leave behind / to hand down
HSK 7-9
remains (of a dead person)
HSK 7-9
to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status
funeral
lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society
genetic engineering
to send (sb) on a mission / to dispatch
to overlook / to miss / to omit
cultural heritage
lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society
addendum
orphan
the bereaved / family of the deceased
posthumous edict of a former emperor / Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 edict to posterity
bed-wetting
to leave behind (inadvertently) / to forget / to omit / to leave out
the looks of the deceased (esp. in the context of paying one's respects) / picture of the deceased
eternal regret
Banpo neolithic Yangshao culture archaeological site east of Xi'an 西安
inheritance tax / estate tax
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
(UNESCO) intangible cultural heritage
exhaustive / thorough
living fossil
World Heritage site
posthumous work
unsolved case (law)
old fogy; adherent of previous dynasty
trace / vestige / historical remains / remnant
genetic disorder
amnesia
(dead) human remains
to have eternal regrets (idiom)
to bequeath
wet dream; nocturnal emission
undiscovered talent (idiom)
optogenetics
molecular genetics
final wishes of the departed
HSK 7-9
genetics
posthumous writing / testament / suicide note / ancient literature
to concentrate on trivial points while neglecting the main problem (idiom)
Hemudu neolithic archaeological site near Ningbo 長江|长江 in Zhejiang, going back to c. 5000 BC
surviving family of the deceased
unrecognized talent
to have one's name go down in history as a byword for infamy (idiom)
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
(dead) human remains
tradition or style from the past / old ways / surviving tradition / relic
to lose; to leave behind (inadvertently)
posthumous work (of a writer)
posthumous edict (of former emperor)
(bird species of China) relict gull (Ichthyaetus relictus)
ruins of capital city of King Helu of Wu, from 6th century BC, at modern Wuxi, Jiangsu
historical remains / things that have survived since ancient times / (of such things) to survive
Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黃父鬼|黄父鬼
to pocket a lost article / (fig.) to correct others' errors / to remedy omissions (in a text etc)
damaged beyond repair
surviving manuscript / bequeathed draft (of book)
epigenetics
all dead and no survivors
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(bound form) to leave behind
to remedy omissions and correct errors (idiom)
the mission in life of a deceased person, left to others to carry on
orphan / posthumous son
nocturnal emission / wet dream
to tolerate is to abet
anecdote (about historical person) / lost or apocryphal story
historic site
to lay bare / to come to light
wishes of the deceased
polyphenism
detailed and nothing left out (idiom); meticulous and comprehensive / not missing an iota
portrait of the deceased
vacancy
(biology) to egest / egesta (feces, scat etc)
posthumous (painting, calligraphy, prose etc)
work or plans left as a legacy / the views of the departed / posthumous orders or teachings
posthumous child
survivors / remnants / relict (species etc)

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