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birthday / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
to fall ill
HSK 1
to get angry; to be furious / vitality; liveliness
HSK 1
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to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student
HSK 2
to live / life / livelihood
HSK 2
new word (in textbook) / word that is unfamiliar or not yet studied / CL: 組|组, 個|个
HSK 2
to produce; to manufacture / to give birth to a child
HSK 3
to grow / to grow up / to be brought up
HSK 3
life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL:個|个,條|条)
HSK 3
to exist / to survive
HSK 3
(of descriptions, writing etc) vivid; lively
HSK 3
business / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 3
to generate; to produce; to form; to be formed; to come into being / to be born with; to be blessed with
HSK 5
cost of living / living expenses / alimony
HSK 6
organism / living creature / life form / biological / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
to take effect / to go into effect
HSK 7-9
career / life (way in which sb lives) / period of one's life
HSK 7-9
to fear / afraid / extremely nervous / for fear that / to avoid / so as not to
HSK 7-9
to give birth to; to bear / fertility
HSK 7-9
life or death
HSK 7-9
life (a person's whole life) / in one's entire life
HSK 7-9
physiology
HSK 7-9
ecology
HSK 7-9
(of a deceased) during one's life / while living
HSK 7-9
opportunity to live; hope of success / vigor; vitality
HSK 7-9
stiff / harsh
HSK 7-9
lifeline
HSK 7-9
one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支 / animal from the Chinese zodiac
fresh troops / (fig.) lifeblood / new force
estranged
fresh ginger
to give birth to a child or children
biochemistry
to reproduce / to flourish
(of metal) to rust; to become rusty / (fig.) (of a skill etc) to get rusty; to deteriorate
new character (in textbook) / character that is unfamiliar or not yet studied
supply of students / source of students
from birth / by one's nature
habitat
stranger / living person / to give birth / to be born (in a certain time or place)
life force / vitality
livelihood
raw oyster
pig iron
(literary) the people / living thing / creature
to inhabit / to live (in a habitat)
biological father
biosphere / ecosphere
unfamiliar / rarely seen
to return alive / to survive
lettuce / raw fresh vegetables / greens
live pig; pig on the hoof
full of life / violent / brave / fresh (of seafood)
raw meat
to make a fire; to light a fire
fresh produce and freshly prepared foods
to emerge and grow / to develop
to make money
a way to make a living / a way to survive / a way out of a predicament
matter of life and death
birthday
natural mother / birth mother
unprocessed medicinal herb
separated in life and death / to part for ever
lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
biotechnology / abbr. for 生物技術|生物技术 / (Tw) abbr. for 生物科技
to bring up (children) / to raise / to bear
(of food) raw or cold
to make trouble
to eat raw
lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom) / fig. vigorous and lively
natural disposition
(agr.) immature soil / virgin soil
raw lacquer
to grow and multiply without end
people are in a terrible situation (idiom)
to take root
unripe / tart / not fully proficient / somewhat shaky
cornflour / starch powder (cooking)
to capture alive
unfamiliar / strange / out of practice / not accustomed
matter of life and death
unboiled water
lit. there are principles behind making money (idiom); fig. to have a knack for good business / knowing how to accumulate wealth / good at feathering one's own nest
born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate) / born under an unlucky star / ahead of his time
extremely painful
food chain
pelt / raw hide
raw silk
full of vitality
full of vitality
to disgust / to pall / fed up / tedious / cloying / boring / irritating
novice / new hand / sb new to a job
lit. to spare or to kill, to give or take away (idiom) / (fig.) control over the fate of others
to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically
to coin (words or expressions)
beautiful or talented writing
to drag sb along against his will / to draw a forced analogy
to be respected in life and lamented in death (idiom)
(TCM) to promote the secretion of saliva

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