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Frequency data from Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare.

再生能源zài shēng néng yuán

renewable energy source

再生资源zài shēng zī yuán

renewable resource

再生医学zài shēng yī xué

regenerative medicine

冒生命危险mào shēng mìng wēi xiǎn

to risk one's life

准生证zhǔn shēng zhèng

birth permit

出生地点chū shēng dì diǎn

place of birth

出生日期chū shēng rì qī

date of birth

出生率chū shēng lǜ

birth rate

出生缺陷chū shēng quē xiàn

birth defect

出生证明chū shēng zhèng míng

birth certificate / CL:張|张[zhāng]

出生证明书chū shēng zhèng míng shū

birth certificate / CL:張|张[zhāng]

刀不磨要生锈,人不学要落后dāo bù mó yào shēng xiù , rén bù xué yào luò hòu

(proverb) a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened / a man will fall behind if he doesn't study

分子生物学fēn zǐ shēng wù xué

molecular biology

分生组织fēn shēng zǔ zhī

meristem

初生chū shēng

newborn / nascent / primary (biology)

初生牛犊不怕虎chū shēng niú dú bù pà hǔ

lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom) / fig. the young are fearless

别开生面bié kāi shēng miàn

to start sth new or original (idiom) / to break a new path / to break fresh ground

前半生qián bàn shēng

first half of one's life

前生qián shēng

previous life / previous incarnation

劫后余生jié hòu yú shēng

(idiom) to be a survivor of a calamity

动不动就生气dòng bu dòng jiù shēng qì

to be quick to take offense / to have a short fuse

半生不熟bàn shēng bù shóu

underripe / half-cooked / (fig.) not mastered (of a technique) / clumsy / halting

博士生bó shì shēng

PhD student / doctoral candidate

卵生luǎn shēng

oviparous

卵胎生luǎn tāi shēng

ovoviviparous

厚死薄生hòu sǐ bó shēng

lit. to praise the dead and revile the living / fig. to live in the past (idiom)

厚生相hòu shēng xiàng

minister of health (of Japan, UK etc)

原核生物yuán hé shēng wù

prokaryote

原核生物界yuán hé shēng wù jiè

Kingdom Monera / prokaryote

原生动物yuán shēng dòng wù

protozoan (bacteria)

原生家庭yuán shēng jiā tíng

family of origin

原生橄榄油yuán shēng gǎn lǎn yóu

virgin olive oil

原生生物yuán shēng shēng wù

protist

原生质yuán shēng zhì

protoplasm

反生物战fǎn shēng wù zhàn

biological (warfare) defense

反美是工作赴美是生活fǎn Měi shì gōng zuò fù Měi shì shēng huó

being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public figures who are brazenly xenophobic but whose family live abroad)

口齿生香kǒu chǐ shēng xiāng

eloquence that generates perfume (idiom) / profound and significant text

古生物gǔ shēng wù

organism from the geological past

古生物学gǔ shēng wù xué

palaeontology

可再生kě zài shēng

(of energy, natural resources etc) renewable

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