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HSK
modern times / modern age / modern era
HSK 3
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to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute / generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon
HSK 3
age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
ancient times
HSK 3
to substitute for / to replace / to supersede
HSK 4
the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949)
HSK 4
the present age / the contemporary era
HSK 5
to transfer (duties to sb else) / to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth) / to explain; to give an account; to brief / to confess; to account for oneself / (jocular) to come to a bad end
HSK 5
generation
HSK 6
dynasty / reign (of a king)
HSK 7-9
descendant; progeny / posterity; later ages; later generations
HSK 7-9
to replace / to supersede / to supplant / (chemistry) substitution
HSK 7-9
for many generations / generation / era / age
HSK 7-9
the next generation
HSK 7-9
epoch-marking
HSK 7-9
Hyundai, South Korean company
final generation
Time, US weekly news magazine
successive generations / successive dynasties / past dynasties
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
offspring / child's generation
the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
golden age
Tang dynasty (618-907)
Zhou dynasty (1046-221 BC)
Song dynasty (960-1279)
the Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
Qin dynasty (221-207 BC), founded by the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇, the first dynasty to rule the whole of China
the prehistoric Shang dynasty (c. 16th-11th century BC)
peerless / unmatched in his generation / incomparable (talent, beauty)
Bandai toy company
for many generations
magnificent style unmatched in his generation (idiom); peerless talent
to carry on one's ancestral line
Sui dynasty (581-617)
metonymy
throughout the ages
to transition to a new dynasty or regime / to replace an older product with an upgraded, new-generation one
Jin Dynasty (265-420)
to transition to a new dynasty or regime
from generation to generation / generation after generation
parent's generation / previous generation
Paleozoic, geological era 545-250m years ago, covering Cambrian 寒武紀|寒武纪, Ordovician 奧陶紀|奥陶纪, Silurian 志留紀|志留纪, Devonian 泥盆紀|泥盆纪, Carboniferous 石炭紀|石炭纪, Permian 二疊紀|二叠纪
periodization (of history)
Mesozoic (geological era 250-65m years ago, covering Triassic 三疊紀|三叠纪, Jurassic 侏羅紀|侏罗纪 and Cretaceous 白堊紀|白垩纪)
to pass to the next generation
previous generation
second generation
unrivalled / without peer in this generation
Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC
three generations of a family / the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou)
Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
sundae (loanword)
Cenozoic (geological era covering the last 65m years)
new generation
(computing, math.) to iterate / (literary) to alternate
children of entrepreneurs who became wealthy under Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the 1980s / see also 窮二代|穷二代
new generation
Dark Ages
ice age
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English author
Generation Y / Millennial Generation
the seventies; the 1970s
substitution / replacing former general / change of leader
new age
to be getting worse with each generation
Paleolithic Era
a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season
Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), founded by the Jurchen 女真 people of North China, a precursor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
the sixties / the 1960s
Mesolithic Era
contemporary
Heian period (794-1185), period of Japanese history
Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)
Proterozoic (geological era 2500-540m years ago)
the era of Japanese occupation
the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods / Eastern Zhou (770-221 BC)
the Six Dynasties period (222-589) between Han and Tang
to be blessed with rare and radiant beauty (idiom)
feudal times
the Warring States period (475-221 BC) / Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century)
to refer to / to be used in place of
Neolithic Era
Stone Age
former times / the olden days
information age
Song of the Southern dynasties (420-479), with capital at Nanjing
reign (of a king, emperor etc)
Archaeozoic (geological era before 2500m years ago)
Nara period (710-794) in early Japanese history
children of officials / word created by analogy with 富二代
wealth never survives three generations (idiom)
the Renaissance
children of celebrities
reform and renewal / generational change
second generation only child
(Tw) class representative / class president
those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s / see also 富二代

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