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HSK
current trends; the present situation; how things are going
HSK 5
(concept of) time / (duration of) time / (point in) time
HSK 1
time / length of time / moment / period
HSK 1
often; frequently
HSK 5
age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
time / juncture / moment / period of time / CL: 個|个, / constantly / always
HSK 3
time / era / period of time
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *時* | 時* | *時
o'clock / time / when / hour / season / period
HSK 3
fashion / fashionable clothes
HSK 6
opportunity; opportune moment
HSK 5
period / phase / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
occasionally; from time to time
HSK 6
timeliness / period of viability or validity / (law) prescription; limitation / (metallurgy) aging
season; time
HSK 6
fashion / fad / fashionable
HSK 7-9
often / constantly
HSK 6
in vogue / fashionable
HSK 7-9
"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
time interval / work shift / time slot / the twelve two-hour divisions of the day
HSK 7-9
sensitivity to timing / time-sensitive / timeliness
speed per hour
HSK 7-9
from time to time
HSK 7-9
(idiom) up to the present / even now / now (in contrast with the past) / at this late hour
sometimes good, sometimes bad
HSK 7-9
ready at any moment
"Times" (newspaper, e.g. New York Times)
contemporary expectations
time limit
prevalent custom of the time
duration
seasonal vegetables
lit. time is a butcher's knife / fig. time marches on, relentless and unforgiving / nothing gold can stay
point in time
time and place / world of a particular locale and era / (physics) space-time
HSK 7-9
(verb) tense
stopping and starting / intermittent / sporadic / on and off
time / auspicious time / time and date / long period of time / this day
current situation / circumstances / current trend
schedule / timetable
HSK 7-9
at all times
separated in time (usu. followed by a quantity of time)
HSK 7-9
Times Square
timetable / schedule
timeline
time interval
things change with the passage of time (idiom)
time difference / time lag / jet lag
seasonal vegetable
hourly wage
time / one of the 12 two-hour periods of the day
clock
season
then (as in "the then chairman")
the time comes, fortune turns (idiom); to have a lucky break / things change for the better
it's getting late; time's getting on
appearing and disappearing / intermittently visible
current political situation
time is limited (idiom)
time travel
sometimes big, sometimes small / varying
current politics / political situation of the time
Time, US weekly news magazine
fashion show
(Tw) time capsule
Time Warner Inc., US media company
time series (stats.)
time interval analysis
the time has not yet come
fashionable / popular
dress shoes
Time that has passed will never come back. (idiom)
fashionable style / (linguistics) tense
(idiom) time and tide wait for no man
hand of a clock / hour hand
point of time (in time-based systems)
timing (of a signal or sequence) / time course
Time makes the man (idiom). The trend of events brings forth the hero.
contemporary drama
to write for a bit then give up / to write in fits and starts
timestamp
time capsule
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *時* | 時* | *時
surname Shi
current price
timetable / schedule
time axis / timeline
concord / harmony
sense of being in another time and place / feeling that one has entered a time warp
peace all year round (old letter closing)
bad times, adverse fate (idiom)
time machine
to rent by the hour
having elements from another time or place
fashion show
shidaiqu, a musical genre that originated in Shanghai in the 1920s, a fusion of Chinese folk music and Western jazz
at present / right now
time travel
news / current events
fate is unfavorable (idiom); the omens are not good
time capsule
heard from time to time / one keeps hearing that...

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