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heritage / legacy / inheritance / bequest / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 4
regret / to regret / to be sorry that
HSK 6
heredity / to inherit (a trait) / to pass on (to one's offspring)
HSK 4
(medicine) sequelae / residual effects / (fig.) repercussions / aftermath
HSK 7-9
to spare no pains or effort (idiom); to do one's utmost
be plainly visible
final wishes of the departed
HSK 7-9
remnant
HSK 7-9
addendum
unrecognized talent
ruins / historic relics
HSK 7-9
historic site
to leave / to abandon
HSK 7-9
(UNESCO) World Cultural Heritage
(biology) to egest / egesta (feces, scat etc)
the mission in life of a deceased person, left to others to carry on
optogenetics
lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society
to leave behind / to hand down
HSK 7-9
genetics
to lose; to leave behind (inadvertently)
molecular genetics
to forget; to cease to think about (sb or sth) anymore
HSK 7-9
World Heritage site
anecdote (about historical person) / lost or apocryphal story
posthumous writing / testament / suicide note / ancient literature
completely; fully; without omission
eternal regret
lit. to foster an ulcer and bequeath a calamity (idiom); tolerating budding evil can only lead to disaster / to cherish a viper in one's bosom
unsolved case (law)
to have disastrous consequences / also written 貽害無窮|贻害无穷
inheritance tax / estate tax
posthumous work
(dead) human remains
Huang Fugui, ghost of legends who provided Liu Juanzi with his magical recipes 劉涓子鬼遺方|刘涓子鬼遗方
exhaustive / thorough
to tolerate is to abet
to have one's name go down in history as a byword for infamy (idiom)
trace / vestige / historical remains / remnant
words of the deceased / last words of the dying / wisdom of past sages
genetic information
heritability
to overlook / to miss / to omit
to leave behind / sb's legacy
cultural heritage
to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status
all dead and no survivors
epigenetics
Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom); fig. if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later / to cherish a snake in one's bosom
hereditary / inherited / genetic
posthumous child
undiscovered talent (idiom)
detailed and nothing left out (idiom); meticulous and comprehensive / not missing an iota
to send (sb) on a mission / to dispatch
damaged beyond repair
testament / will
HSK 7-9
to remedy omissions and correct errors (idiom)
posthumous work (of a writer)
remains (of a dead person)
HSK 7-9
to have eternal regrets (idiom)
heritage; historical legacy
to show in full light / to be revealed in its entirety
work or plans left as a legacy / the views of the departed / posthumous orders or teachings
tradition or style from the past / old ways / surviving tradition / relic
(UNESCO) intangible cultural heritage
amnesia
ruins of Cherchen, Qarqan or Chiemo, archaeological site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
to lay bare / to come to light
genetic disorder
to bequeath
ruins of capital city of King Helu of Wu, from 6th century BC, at modern Wuxi, Jiangsu
wishes of the deceased
the bereaved / family of the deceased
to pocket a lost article / (fig.) to correct others' errors / to remedy omissions (in a text etc)
living fossil
lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society
(lit.) leftover men / (fig.) loyalist adherents of a former dynasty / surviving members of an ethnic group
Banpo neolithic Yangshao culture archaeological site east of Xi'an 西安
survivors / remnants / relict (species etc)
to concentrate on trivial points while neglecting the main problem (idiom)
genetic material
orphan
(dead) human remains
funeral
widow / the deceased's widow
historical remains / things that have survived since ancient times / (of such things) to survive
orphan / posthumous son
to leave behind (inadvertently) / to forget / to omit / to leave out
posthumous edict (of former emperor)
old fogy; adherent of previous dynasty
Hemudu neolithic archaeological site near Ningbo 長江|长江 in Zhejiang, going back to c. 5000 BC
genetic engineering
surviving family of the deceased
nocturnal emission / wet dream
vacancy
portrait of the deceased
wet dream; nocturnal emission
posthumous (painting, calligraphy, prose etc)

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