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一生

yī shēng

HSK 3.0 Level 2

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Definitions

1. all one's life; throughout one's life

Example Sentences

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他一生獨身。

Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 846335)

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Words Containing 一生

yī shēng yī shì

a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life

jiǔ sǐ yī shēng

nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape

科学技术是第一生产力

kē xué jì shù shì dì yī shēng chǎn lì

science and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[dèng xiǎo píng] introducing the Four Modernizations 四個現代化|四个现代化[sì ge xiàn dài huà])

Child Words of 一生

one

to be born