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活
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Definitions
- 1. to live
- 2. alive
- 3. living
- 4. work
- 5. workmanship
Example Sentences
1 shown活 该。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 活
selfless model citizen, just like Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[léi fēng]
to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly
sabotage; subversive activities
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)
to cry one's heart out
trick
flexible
the Resurrected Army (CCTV documentary series about the Terracotta army)
to appreciate life
charity event
through road
buffoon
(coll.) serve sb right
Notopterygium root (root of Notopterygium incisum)
to be madly in love
better a bad life than a good death (idiom)
spiritual or moral life
to be tired of living
activist
Easter
demand deposit
work
odd jobs
unskilled labor
active
living body
walking dictionary
private life
zombie
to survive
printing with movable type
flexibility
activation
domestic sewage
dynamic
living standards
(coll.) bravo
bioactivity
to bury alive
sunspot activity
to activate
a living Buddha
living animals
to work as amateur for no pay
living person
to enliven
(neologism c. 2006) if you live long enough, you'll see everything
flipchart
energy
real (people)
half dead
printing with movable type
to exercise
behavior
prefabricated building
to bring back to life
noose
to look exactly like
reagent (chemistry)
adjustable spanner
clandestine activities
to work
walk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life (proverb)
reactivation hypothesis
time served in prison
a god living in our midst (sb who can predict the future like a prophet or who leads a life without constraints)
to take on a piece of work
surfactant
(med.) survival rate
extravehicular activity (outside space vehicle)
political life
manipulation (e.g. ball handling in sport)
(medicine) vital capacity
biopsy
to creatively combine learning with usage
survival rate
spirited atmosphere
activity
job paid according to the amount of work done
way of life
reactivator
consumer goods
political street theater (loanword from Zhivaya Gazeta, or Living Newspaper, Russian theater form of the 1920s)
mobility
piston
to survive
have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals (proverb)
social activity
terribly
nimble
volcanic activity
needlework
arrogant appearance
remarkably alike
calendar of events
valve
parasitism; parasitic existence
while still alive
typography
prefabricated building
(election) campaign
to support one's family (idiom)
to act recklessly (idiom)
handicraft
to improve blood circulation (Chinese medicine)
to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically
impossible to make a living
lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom)
to go through hell for the sake of keeping up appearances (idiom)
cost of living
to capture alive
seismic zone
flexible
activated oxygen species (AOS)
night life
economic activity
lit. if moved to a new location, a tree will die, but a person will live (idiom)
to finish a job on time
what the hell; preposterous
radioactivity
one's utmost
to be really busy
to survive (a serious accident)
to survive
current account (in bank)
remarkably alike
alive
lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries
to save life
needlework
see 活像[huó xiàng]
a slip-knot
to come to life (by magic)
fresh fish
(northern dialect) to pick up a fare (as a taxi driver)
to waste one's life; to fail to make the most of one's life
(chemistry) activity
to provide for
consumer goods
flaming fire
happy
movable type
life's necessities
living museum
regardless of life or death (idiom)
(coll.) to go through sheer hell
to leap and frisk about (idiom); lively
heavy work
suffering
active volcano
activated carbon
to live
farm work
fig. unable to solve a problem due to the inflexibility of one's thinking
free time (between organized activities)
vivid
active desktop
place for activities (playground, event venue etc)
lively
(banking) current (account)
to wildly exaggerate the meaning of sth (idiom)
funds on call
to work for a living (esp. of woman needleworker)
specialty
live cargo
farm work
oral sex
to hover between life and death (idiom)
piecework
a flashy lifestyle
trapdoor
appreciating the arts
living facilities
Easter Island
LOHAS (lifestyles of health and sustainability)
live target
to stay at home while one's husband is away
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life
life or death
to harvest (an organ) from a living person
activation analysis
repechage (supplementary qualifying round in sports)
(of a flower) vividly colorful and fragrant
to work
life
to work
labor
lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom)
living fossil
bitter work
energetic
Living Buddha
biopsy
activist
sliding bevel (to measure angles)
activity center
live poultry
activist
demand loan (i.e. loan that the borrower can demanded back at any time)
to live one's life
agricultural activities
espionage
domestic garbage
attenuated live vaccine
sports
to tire oneself out through overwork
biopsy
daily active users (of a website, service etc)
to subsist
to invigorate blood circulation and alleviate pain (idiom)
to eke out a living
nimble
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life
appreciation of the finer things in life
(of an actor) to bring (one's character) to life
surfactant
biopsy
valve
sex life