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to implement / to carry out / to execute / to run
HSK 5
to execute by firing squad / to shoot dead / fig. to discard / to get rid of
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *执* | 执* | *执
to execute (a plan) / to grasp
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  *措* | 措* | *措
to handle / to manage / to put in order / to arrange / to administer / to execute / to take action on / to plan
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  *决* | 决* | *决
to decide / to determine / to execute (sb) / (of a dam etc) to breach or burst / definitely / certainly
to execute (a condemned criminal)
Wen Yiduo (1899-1946), poet and patriotic fighter, executed by Guomindang in Kunming
to execute by hanging
to execute by firing squad / same as 槍斃|枪毙
(cinematography) camera movement (tracking, panning, zooming etc); to execute a camera movement
lit. orders are carried out and prohibitions are observed (idiom)fig. to execute every order without fail
to execute / the law
Bhutto (name) / Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928-1979), president of Pakistan 1971-1979 executed by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq / Benazzir Bhutto (1953-2007), twice president of Pakistan 1988-1990 and 1993-1996
lit. first execute the criminal, then report it to the emperor (idiom) / fig. to take some drastic action without the prior approval of higher authorities
to execute / to handle / behavior / action / conduct
to execute on the spot (idiom); summary execution / to carry out the law on the spot
electric chair (used to execute criminals)
to be executed
not trying to avoid the battle-ax (idiom) / not afraid of dying in combat / not afraid of being executed
to direct a movie in which one also plays a major role as an actor / (fig.) to plan and execute a scheme all by oneself
to nail securely / to execute by means of impalement / to crucify
to execute by hanging / to hang oneself
to execute sb by cannon
Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif (1901-1938), Ukrainian Soviet expert on Chinese affairs, secretly executed in Stalin's purges
to execute a lightning raid / (investment) to buy, then quickly sell / (tourism) to visit a destination for only a short stay
beaten / tortured / executed
criminal to be executed / to execute a criminal
Wu Zixu (–484 BC), Chu-born strategist for Wu. After the King of Chu executed his family, he fled to Wu and masterminded Wu's invasion of Chu (506 BC), destroying its capital in a campaign that doubled as personal vengeance.
Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, then executed in 1975 after opposing the counterrevolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979
person being executed / victim of corporal punishment / person serving a sentence
executable (computing)
the Six Gentlemen Martyrs of the failed reform movement of 1898, executed in its aftermath, namely: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同|谭嗣同, Lin Xu 林旭, Yang Shenxiu 楊深秀|杨深秀, Liu Guangdi 劉光第|刘光第, Kang Guangren 康廣仁|康广仁 and Yang Rui 楊銳|杨锐
to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888-1938), Soviet revolutionary theorist, executed after a show trial in 1937
to execute sb and mince his flesh and bones (archaic form of retribution)
when two kingdoms are at war, they don't execute envoys (idiom)
An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowager empress Cixi 慈禧太后, executed in 1869 by her rival Empress Mother Empress Dowager Ci'an 慈安皇太后
Shao Piaoping (1884-1926), pioneer of journalism and founder of newspaper Beijing Press 京報|京报, executed in 1926 by warlord Zhang Zuolin 張作霖|张作霖
Han Fuju (1890–1938), Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) army general and governor of Shandong, executed by Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石 after he abandoned Jinan to the Japanese
Leo Karakhan (1889-1937), Soviet ambassador to China 1921-26, executed in Stalin's 1937 purge
to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)
Joan of Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English
Wu She (–522 BC), father of Wu Zixu 伍子胥, official of the state of Chu, executed after being falsely accused by King Ping of Chu
to be executed
(old) to be taken out to be executed
Jang Song-taek (1946-2013), brother-in-law of Kim Jong-il 金正日, uncle and mentor of Kim Jong-un 金正恩, in 2013 accused of being a counter-revolutionary and executed
to die by battle-ax (idiom); to be executed
to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)
to execute the whole family and confiscate their property
Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March
to hang (i.e. execute by hanging) / to strangle
Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English / also called Jehanne Darc, the Maid or Orleans, Joan of Arc or St Joan


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