non-living / inanimate / lifeless
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(idiom) parents' orders and matchmaker's services (in establishing an arranged marriage)
exerting all one's strength
to gamble with life / to take reckless risks
while there is life, the fight continues (idiom) / to fight to the last
risk to one's life
life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations) / Physical effort is vital for our bodies to function (Aristotle). / Life derives from physical exercise.
biodiversity
(neologism) (used in road safety campaigns) "life-saving belt", i.e. seat belt / (astrobiology) circumstellar habitable zone
see 生命體徵|生命体征[]
life sciences
see 生命體徵|生命体征[]
life cycle
vital signs
life and death are ruled by fate (idiom)
to follow orders / to abide by / to obey
methamphetamine
to die (in an accident etc) / to have one's life cut short
(idiom) to do one's best and leave the rest to fate / to do everything within one's power, then accept whatever happens
categorical proposition (logic)
to receive heaven's command (of Daoist immortals etc) / ordained by heaven
(historical) emperor ordained by Heaven / one's Mr. Right
sb who dies prematurely
difficult to obey orders (idiom) / much to my embarrassment, I am unable to comply
person's lot through life
fortune-teller
fortune-teller
fortune-teller
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
to demand sb's life
to commit suicide / to have one's life cut short
suicide note
to prolong life / to extend one's lifespan / (fig.) to enable sth to keep going / to give sth a new lease on life
to give sincere advice (idiom) / to exhort earnestly
to accept one's situation as dictated by heaven (idiom)
(idiom) to take on a leadership role at a time of crisis
to sacrifice one's life in a crisis
to think of oneself as high and pure (idiom) / smug and self-righteous / holier-than-thou
old democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
see 草菅人命[]
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