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to conspire; to plot / a conspiracy; a plot
HSK 6
staff officer / to give advice
HSK 7-9
to seek; to strive for
HSK 7-9
to conspire to murder / to plot against sb's life
HSK 7-9
resourceful / full of stratagems
HSK 7-9
to seek one's livelihood / to work to support oneself / to earn a living
HSK 7-9
to murder / to assassinate / intentional homicide
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to plan / to seek / scheme
murder case
to conspire
trickery / tactics
conspiracy / secret plan / to conspire
to agree without prior consultation / to happen to hold the same view
to meet
to scheme / to plot / conspiracy
chief of staff
crafty plots and machinations (idiom)
premeditated / to plan sth in advance (esp. a crime)
to work out a strategy; to come up with a plan for
to put forward plans and ideas (also derogatory) / to give advice (idiom)
to conspire; to plot together
rigorous schemes and deep foresight (idiom); astute and circumspect
stratagem; scheme
lit. deep plans and distant thoughts / to plan far ahead (idiom)
to conspire with sb / to plot / a conspirator / a partner in crime / an accomplice
lit. to negotiate with a tiger for its pelt (idiom); fig. to ask sb to act contrary to their own interests
to seek / to strive for / to obtain / see also 牟取
to use one's position for personal gain (idiom)
schemer / conspirator
to premeditate; to plot
(idiom) great plans can be ruined by just a touch of impatience
stratagem / scheme / shrewdness
bold but not very astute (idiom)
to do business / to manage / to strive for / to use every possible means (toward a goal)
(military) General Staff Headquarters
to plan matters / to look for a job
planning is with man, accomplishing with heaven (idiom); Man proposes but God disposes.
skilled manipulator / tactician / strategist / advisor / counsellor
to consider / to turn over in one's mind
(military) Chief of Staff
stratagem / strategy / resourcefulness
to plot a rebellion / to conspire against the state
resourcefulness; ingenuity
to make a profit / to gain / to get an advantage
to plot and kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money
to scheme together / to conspire / joint plan / conspiracy
strategic experts and powerful generals (idiom)
to plot to assassinate
mastermind / ringleader / lead plotter
to look for a job / to seek employment
strategic experts as thick as rain (idiom); no shortage of advisers on strategy
imperial strategic adviser / expert on strategy
premeditated murder
a long-term plan / an ambitious strategy
strategic experts and powerful generals (idiom)
to make a living / to strive to earn a living
(idiom) to ask sb to act contrary to their own interests (original form of the expression 與虎謀皮|与虎谋皮)
to plan and consider / to reflect on one's best strategy
to be good at working for one's own profit (idiom)
to use influence to get what one wants / to find a way through (esp. corrupt) / to succeed by means fair or foul
lit. ask passers-by how to build one's house (idiom); fig. to have no idea what to do / without a clue
forethought
conspiracy theory
stratagem (political or military) / trick
(idiom) resourceful and decisive; resolute and sagacious
stratagem; scheme
army Chief of Staff
to conspire openly / overt plot
don't meddle in affairs that are not part of your position (Confucius)
to get a better job somewhere else (idiom) / to seek alternative employment
(idiom) to have never met / to be complete strangers
murder
Zhang Yimou (1950-), PRC film director
conspirator
to conspire
Yuanmou County in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture 楚雄彝族自治州, Yunnan
conspiracy
premeditated
a well-thought out long-term strategy
profound or erudite plans
(idiom) unable to plan; inept at strategy
(idiom) to take matters into one's own hands / to go it alone / to fend for oneself / to find one's own way forward (esp. to find oneself a job)
to get / to obtain
Mozilla China, software company founded in 2005, headquartered in Beijing
lit. persons who walk different paths cannot make plans together / to go separate ways (idiom)
the crime of conspiracy to overthrow the government
unpremeditated


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