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actor; actress; performer
HSK 3
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to perform (a play etc); to stage (a show) / (bound form) to develop; to play out; to carry out (a task)
HSK 3
play / show / performance / exhibition / to perform / to act / to demonstrate / CL: 場|场
HSK 3
to sing (for an audience) / vocal performance
HSK 3
to act (in a play) / to perform / to put on (a performance) / performance / concert / show / CL: 場|场,
HSK 3
to direct / director (film etc)
HSK 3
vocal recital or concert
HSK 3
to give a lecture; to make a speech
HSK 4
to play the role of / to act
HSK 5
to perform on a musical instrument
HSK 6
to screen (a movie) / to stage (a play) / a screening / a staging
HSK 6
acting / performing skills
HSK 7-9
to play the leading role; to star / lead actor
HSK 7-9
to drill; to practice
HSK 7-9
to appear (in a show etc) / an appearance (on stage etc)
HSK 7-9
to demonstrate / to show / presentation / demonstration
HSK 7-9
to develop; to evolve
HSK 7-9
speech / to deliver a speech
HSK 7-9
(of a story etc) to unfold; to play out / to develop (a technique etc) / to enact / (logic) to deduce; to infer
HSK 7-9
to put on a play / to perform / fig. to pretend / to feign
HSK 7-9
(military, firefighting etc) (verb and noun) drill; exercise; maneuver
HSK 7-9
ever more critical / problems get more and more intense
HSK 7-9
show business
HSK 7-9
broadcasting studio
HSK 7-9
to practice martial arts
to act / to play a part
joint performance
to evolve / evolution
(theater etc) to tour; to be on tour; to give itinerant performances (abbr. for 巡迴演出|巡回演出)
to take part in a performance; to appear in (a movie etc)
broadcast performance / televised or podcast lecture
military exercises
evolution / gradual forward progress
to perform calculations
to dramatize historical events / novel or play on historical theme
dummy run / to run through sth / to rehearse
performing arts
to direct a movie in which one also plays a major role as an actor / (fig.) to plan and execute a scheme all by oneself
maiden stage role / first performance / first public showing
road show or promotional tour (for a product etc)
to recur (of events, esp. adverse ones) / to repeat (a performance)
to deduce / to infer / to derive / an implication
to lecture / to speak publicly
benefit performance / charity show
to act together / to put on a joint performance
to rehearse (a performance)
(of a play, movie etc) to begin
to perform a play
to perform in public; to give a performance
audition / dress rehearsal / preview (of a theatrical performance) / dummy run
to repeat an old stratagem / up to one's old tricks
drill / exercise / demonstration / to demonstrate
enka (Japanese genre of sentimental ballads)
algorithm (Tw)
an extra (in a movie) (abbr. for 臨時演員|临时演员)
leading actors (in a show) / starring
performer / musician
natural change / evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化|进化)
(Tw) to screen a movie
acrobat
keynote speech
exhibition match
cast (of a movie etc); lineup of performers; troupe
performance place / CL: 處|处
an extra (in a movie)
to stop performing a play / to interrupt a stage run
film director
to give a speech
theatrical performance / CL: 場|场
commercial performance
fashion show
stuntman
performer
extra (actor engaged to appear in a crowd scene) (abbr. for 群眾演員|群众演员)
extra (actor engaged to appear in a crowd scene)
movie actor / movie actress
keynote speech
Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王 overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc
inaugural lecture
(theater etc) to tour; to be on tour; to give itinerant performances
orator
inaugural speech
entertainer / performer
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei as villains
war-gaming; simulation of a military operation
substitute actor (esp. in fights of theatrical stunts) / stuntman
to go on stage
to put on extra shows; to extend the run (of a show) / to include an additional element in a show
(of an actor) to bring (one's character) to life / to act brilliantly
role-playing game (RPG)
inversion (geometry)
the theory of evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化論|进化论)
Dramatized history of Republican China until 1927 by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩, and later chapters by Xu Qinfu 許廑父|许廑父
to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom) / to rehearse a planned action or activity / to conduct a dry run
succession (of changes in an ecological community) / naturally evolving sequence
deductive reasoning
to be intensifying / to be getting worse and worse / to start to run rampant
piano performance
ventriloquist
cosmogony

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