| | the day after tomorrow / life after birth (the period in which one develops through experiences, contrasted with 先天) / acquired (not innate or congenital) / a posteriori | HSK 1 |
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| | all one's life; throughout one's life | HSK 2 |
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| | life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL: 條|条) | HSK 3 |
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| | to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born / to arise; to occur / to light (a fire) / to live; to be alive / life / raw; uncooked; unprocessed / unfamiliar; strange / (bound form) student; person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life; lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽) | HSK 2 |
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| | life (one's time on earth) | HSK 3 |
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| | age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | to live / life / livelihood | HSK 2 |
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| | track (for trains etc) / orbit (of a satellite) / (fig.) a person's established path in life / desired trajectory (of a business or other endeavor) / (audio engineering) track / (quantum mechanics) orbital | HSK 6 |
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| | to feel sad / to feel unwell / (of life) to be difficult | HSK 2 |
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| | lit. to eat, drink, play and be merry (idiom) / fig. to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure | HSK 7-9 |
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| | character / intrinsic quality (of a person) / quality (of a product or service, or as in "quality of life", "air quality" etc) | HSK 4 |
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| | day / a (calendar) date / days of one's life | HSK 2 |
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| | to die / to lose one's life | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in those days; back then; in those years / to be in the prime of life | HSK 5 |
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| | life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc | HSK 6 |
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| | lit. music, women, dogs and horses (traditional aristocratic amusements, with dogs and horses referring to activities such as hunting and riding) (idiom) / fig. wine, women and song; dissolute pleasures; a life of sensual indulgence | |
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| | life-size; life-sized | |
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| | lifelong / all one's life / marriage | HSK 5 |
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| | (neologism) the three core personal values: worldview ( 世界觀|世界观), view of life ( 人生觀|人生观) and value system ( 價值觀|价值观) | |
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| | to have a child late in life (esp. said of a father) | |
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| | to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to sacrifice one's life / to sacrifice (sth valued) / beast slaughtered as a sacrifice | HSK 6 |
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| | the next life | |
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| | to provide for / to keep (animals, a family etc) / to raise animals / to feed and clothe / support / the necessities of life / to give birth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | organism / living creature / life form / biological / CL: 個|个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to provide for the elderly (family members) / to enjoy a life in retirement | HSK 6 |
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| | life insurance | |
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| | lit. sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom) / fig. all kinds of flavors; the joys and sorrows of life | HSK 5 |
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| | an imagined romantic relationship between two characters in fiction (or in real life) that one wishes for or fantasizes about (abbr. of "coupling") | |
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| | a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life | |
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| | spring (season) / gay / joyful / youthful / love / lust / life | |
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| | (idiom) to settle down and pursue one's path in life | |
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| | life / age / generation / era / world / lifetime / epoch / descendant / noble | |
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| | lifelike / true to life / distinctly / clearly | HSK 7-9 |
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| | human lifespan / life insurance (abbr. for 人壽保險|人寿保险) | |
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| | life sciences | |
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| | shelf life / expiration date | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom) / fig. everyday life; daily routine; to go about one's daily life | |
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| | to stop plowing / to give up a life in the fields | |
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| | to be looked after in life and given a proper burial thereafter (idiom) | |
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| | Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence | |
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| | to be buried in a horse hide (idiom) / to give one's life on the battlefield | |
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| | to lead an idle life; to be a loafer | |
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| | career / life (way in which sb lives) / period of one's life | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (Tw) life skills education; education in practical, emotional, social and moral aspects of daily living | |
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| | joys and sorrows / partings and reunions / the vicissitudes of life | HSK 7-9 |
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| | all walks of life (idiom) / every trade | |
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| | personnel / human resources / human affairs / ways of the world / (euphemism) sexuality / the facts of life | HSK 7-9 |
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| | fatal / mortal / deadly / to sacrifice one's life | HSK 7-9 |
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| | life is but a dream (idiom) | |
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| | life span / life expectancy / lifetime (of a machine) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first half of one's life | |
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| | sex life | |
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| | life | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom) / fig. it's a life-and-death struggle / it's either him or me | |
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| | all walks of life; all social circles | |
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| | the daily life of a family | |
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| | tranquility yields transcendence (idiom); quiet life of profound study / cf Still waters run deep. | |
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| | bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb / undaunted by perils | |
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| | to lose one's life | |
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| | to go ashore; to climb ashore / (fig.) to achieve a stable and secure life after a period of struggle (e.g. to get a government job, be admitted to a desirable university, or finally pay off one's debts) | |
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| | to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc) / to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc) / to die / disappointed / discouraged | |
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| | the sun and moon / day and month / every day and every month / season / life and livelihood | |
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| | half a life / only half alive / barely alive / (scared, beaten etc) half to death | |
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| | throughout one's life / lifetime; lifelong | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lower animal / primitive life-form | |
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| | to live comfortably; to enjoy a happy life | |
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| | to draw designs, maps etc / picture (e.g. of life in the city) | |
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| | to save sb's life / (interj.) Help! / Save me! | HSK 6 |
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| | shelf life / freshness date | |
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| | mutually dependent for life (idiom); to rely upon one another for survival / interdependent | HSK 7-9 |
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| | way of life / attitude / modus operandi | |
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| | (idiom) since birth; for one's whole life | |
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| | corrective influence / to reform (a criminal) / redemption (of a sinner) / to influence (a malefactor to a better life) / to guide sb back to the right path by repeated word and example | |
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| | (of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes | |
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| | to conspire to murder / to plot against sb's life | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to risk one's life | |
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| | one's life experience; one's lot; one's past history | |
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| | to take the life of a living creature | |
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| | to rebuild; to reconstruct; to regenerate / (in set phrases like 恩同再造) to save sb's life | |
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| | lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities | |
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| | previous life; former incarnation | |
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| | to live one's life / to pass one's days / to get along | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to give one's body for the nation (idiom); to spend one's whole life in the service of the country | |
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| | all one's life | |
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| | in glowing spirits (idiom); bursting with life / radiating health and vigor | |
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| | life or death | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea / fig. life's daily necessities | |
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| | firefighting / to extinguish a fire and save life and property / to dive (of goalkeeper in soccer) | |
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| | to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes (idiom); fig. to add the vital finishing touch / the crucial point that brings the subject to life / a few words to clinch the point | HSK 7-9 |
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| | latter half of one's life | |
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| | (neologism c. 2008) (slang) (coined as a pun on 幸福) satisfied with one's sex life | |
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| | to imitate to perfection / to be remarkably true to life | |
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| | life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations) / Physical effort is vital for our bodies to function (Aristotle). / Life derives from physical exercise. | |
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| | While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope. | |
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| | verdant / lush green and full of life | |
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| | lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL: 條|条, 隻|只 / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic | |
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| | to enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun | |
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