"Alive" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 huó zhe alive
 huó to live / alive / living / work / workmanship
 huó huó while still alive / simply / totally
 huó shēng shēng real (people) / living (artist) / while still alive (e.g. skinned alive)
 zài shì to be alive
 shēng huán to return alive / to survive
 sǐ lǐ táo shēng mortal danger, escape alive (idiom) / a narrow escape / to survive by the skin of one's teeth
 huó zhuō to capture alive
 shēng qín to capture alive
 bàn tiáo mìng half a life / only half alive / barely alive / (scared, beaten etc) half to death
 lǎo bù sǐ (derog.) old but still alive / old fart / old bastard
 huó mái to bury alive
 jiǔ sǐ yī shēng nine deaths and still alive (idiom) / a narrow escape / new lease of life
 pēng cooking method / to boil sb alive (capital punishment in imperial China)
 rén jiān dì yù hell on earth (idiom) / suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive / fig. having an uncomfortable time
 fén shū kēng rú to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])
 suī sǐ yóu shēng lit. although dead, as if still alive (idiom) / still with us in spirit
 yīn hún bù sàn lit. the soul of a deceased has not yet dispersed (idiom) / fig. the influence still lingers on / the spirit (of some doctrine) is still alive
 líng chuáng bier / bed kept as it was when the deceased was alive
 kēng shā to bury alive / to ensnare
 xùn sǐ to be buried alive as sacrifice (together with husband or superior)
 yào sǐ bù huó half dead / more dead than alive
  Child Alive programme
 chūn guāng zhà xiè spring sunshine emerges to bring the world alive (idiom) / to give a glimpse of sth intimate (e.g. one's underwear)
 yuān jiā yí jiě bù yí jié It is better to squash enmity rather than keeping it alive (proverb)
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