lit. born in the morning and dying at dusk (idiom) / fig. ephemeral / transient
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undergraduate student
side issues keep arising (idiom)
resplendent
extreme joy turns to sorrow (idiom) / Don't celebrate too soon, things could still go wrong!
to grow without restraint / overflowing with / to happen unexpectedly
to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom)
derivative / secondary / sub-
secondary growth of forest
secondary disaster (e.g. epidemic following floods)
to cheat strangers / to bully strangers / (of domesticated animals) to be rebellious with unfamiliar people
starring male role in a Chinese opera
male military role in a Chinese opera
to seek life in death (idiom) / to fight for one's life
life or death / critical (event)
(idiom) to come back to life (after death)
remaining years of one's life
(idiom) the people have no way to make a living (from Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[])
principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade)
the people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom) / a time of famine and impoverishment
aerial root (botany)
aquatic (plant, animal)
a "screw that never rusts" – metaphor used in CCP propaganda to praise loyal, selfless contributors, famously applied to model worker Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[]
will to live / will to survive
unlicensed doctor / quack / back-alley or itinerant practitioner
(anatomy) urinogenital tract
(of a flower) vividly colorful and fragrant / (of a woman) captivating / charming / (of writing or a painting etc) lifelike / vivid
to produce (from sth else) / to derive (from raw material) / derivative
derivative word
to rise from the ashes (idiom) / to thrive again after surviving an ordeal
all smiles / beaming from ear to ear
to make trouble out of nothing
no way to get by
asexual reproduction
non-living / inanimate / lifeless
dentist
only (child) / without siblings / to be the sole survivor
an only child
one-child policy
environmental sanitation / abbr. to 環衛|环卫[]
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