year; CL:個|个[ge4]

many years; for many years; longstanding

this year

last year

a few years; several years; how many years?

every year; each year; yearly

in those days; back then; in those years; to be in the prime of life

that very same year

next year

early youth; youngster; (literary) youth; young man

childhood

youth; youthful years; young person; the young

half a year

to grow to adulthood; fully grown; adult; the whole year

adolescent; youth; teenager

New Year; CL:個|个[ge4]

several years

millennium

anniversary; annual

underage

hundred years; century; (fig.) a whole lifetime; a person's whole life

middle age

elderly; old age; autumn of one's years

several years; many years

light-year

see 萬年縣|万年县[Wan4 nian2 Xian4]

to celebrate the Chinese New Year

(idiom) during one's lifetime; while one is on this earth; in one's remaining years

(of wine) aged; (of debts etc) old; longstanding

the whole year; all year long

(idiom) over the years; year after year

in the same year; to be the same age

one's later years

the year before last

the year 2000; 2000 years

the first year of a millennium (esp. the year 2000)

to live to the (ripe) age of

academic year

all year round; for years on end; average year

all the year round

childhood; infancy

many years ago; in the past; in one's early years

in former years; in previous years

to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve)

last year

prosperous year; year with bumper harvest

one's remaining years

first year of an emperor's reign; first year of an era; first year of a significant time period

Year of the Rabbit (e.g. 2011)