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Trad. 養活
- to provide for
- to keep (animals, a family etc)
- to raise animals
- to feed and clothe
- support
- the necessities of life
- to give birth
- (northern dialect) to pick up a fare (as a taxi driver)
- to pick up a piece of work (as a courier)
- (of an enzyme, microorganism, catalyst etc) to lose biological or chemical activity; to become inactivated
Trad. 復活
- to revive
- (lit. and fig.) to come back to life
- (religion) resurrection
- to take on a piece of work
- to pick up some freelance work
- (of a taxi driver) to pick up a fare
Trad. 活動
- to exercise; to move about; to work out
- shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
- movable; flexible; liquid (capital etc)
- (volcanic, seismic, economic etc) activity
- (outdoor etc) activity; event; (political) campaign; (military) maneuver (CL:項|项[xiang4])
- to use personal influence, connections, bribes etc
- to work for a living (esp. of woman needleworker)
- life of a group of stones in Go 圍棋|围棋[wei2 qi2]
- sb who witnesses a crime and is not killed by the perpetrator
- a captive who can provide information
- (Internet slang) to stage humorous antics or creative stunts (esp. for online audiences)
- to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly
- to use a word flexibly (e.g. a noun as an adjective)
Trad. 復活賽
- repechage (supplementary qualifying round in sports)
Trad. 活久見
- (neologism c. 2006) if you live long enough, you'll see everything
- Just incredible!
- to capture alive a criminal (or enemy etc) for interrogation
- (of a perpetrator) to let a witness live
Trad. 活報劇
- political street theater (loanword from Zhivaya Gazeta, or Living Newspaper, Russian theater form of the 1920s)
Trad. 討生活
- to eke out a living
- to live from hand to mouth
- to drift aimlessly
- real (people)
- living (artist)
- while still alive (e.g. skinned alive)
- a god living in our midst (sb who can predict the future like a prophet or who leads a life without constraints)
Trad. 活雷鋒
- a selfless, helpful person, like the model citizen Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[Lei2 Feng1] (often used to refer to sb in a joking or teasing way)
Trad. 生活資料
- consumer goods
- means of livelihood
- means of subsistence
- documents relating to sb's life
Trad. 死去活來
- to hover between life and death (idiom)
- to suffer terribly
- within an inch of one's life
- lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries
- two parties cannot coexist
Trad. 死活不顧
- regardless of life or death (idiom)
Trad. 公益活動
- charity event
- public service activities
Trad. 針線活兒
- needlework
- working for a living as a needleworker
Trad. 鐵窗生活
- time served in prison
- prison life
Trad. 死而復活
- to come back to life (after death)
Trad. 自由活動
- free time (between organized activities)
Trad. 生吞活剝
- to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically
Trad. 生龍活虎
- lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom)
- fig. vigorous and lively
Trad. 維持生活
- to subsist
- to eke out a living
- to keep body and soul together
Trad. 活動場地
- place for activities (playground, event venue etc)
Trad. 活動房屋
- prefabricated building
- prefab
- mobile home
- caravan
- trailer
Trad. 活動曲尺
- sliding bevel (to measure angles)
Trad. 神氣活現
- arrogant appearance
- smug appearance
- to act condescending
- to put on airs
Trad. 活學活用
- to creatively combine learning with usage
- to learn and apply pragmatically
- one's utmost
- (to fight or work) desperately hard
- to put up a life or death struggle
- at all costs
Trad. 活期貸款
- demand loan (i.e. loan that the borrower can demanded back at any time)
Trad. 活期資金
- funds on call
- invested sum that can be cashed
Trad. 日活用戶
- daily active users (of a website, service etc)
Trad. 秘密活動
- clandestine activities
- covert operation
Trad. 文康活動
- cultural and recreational activities (Tw)
- (of a flower) vividly colorful and fragrant
- (of a woman) captivating; charming
- (of writing or a painting etc) lifelike; vivid
- to invigorate blood circulation and alleviate pain (idiom)
Trad. 活蹦亂跳
- to leap and frisk about (idiom); lively
- healthy and active