to live; alive; living; work; workmanship

to work; to be employed

to revive; (lit. and fig.) to come back to life; (religion) resurrection

to survive (a serious accident); survival

to provide for; to keep (animals, a family etc); to raise animals; to feed and clothe; support; the necessities of life; to give birth

sex life

to activate

happy; cheerful

life or death; fate; no matter what; anyway; for the life of me

to bring back to life

flexible; nimble; agile

while still alive; simply; totally

to live one's life; to make a living

private life

to be really busy; pressing business

lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries; two parties cannot coexist

night life

vivid; lively; (of food ingredients) live or fresh

to live without dignity; to barely sustain oneself

to eke out a living; to live from hand to mouth; to drift aimlessly

(idiom) half-dead; barely alive; (idiom) listless

specialty; unique skill

LOHAS (lifestyles of health and sustainability)

to work for a living (esp. of woman needleworker); life of a group of stones in Go 圍棋|围棋[wei2 qi2]

to save life; to rescue; the whole business with all its processes

farm work

to finish a job on time; to produce the goods

job paid according to the amount of work done; contract work

oral sex

(of an enzyme, microorganism, catalyst etc) to lose biological or chemical activity; to become inactivated

to survive

manipulation (e.g. ball handling in sport); hand job

(northern dialect) to pick up a fare (as a taxi driver); to pick up a piece of work (as a courier)

to take on a piece of work; to pick up some freelance work; (of a taxi driver) to pick up a fare

to enliven; to invigorate; to revitalize

(Internet slang) to stage humorous antics or creative stunts (esp. for online audiences)

odd jobs

(of an actor) to bring (one's character) to life; to act brilliantly

to inactivate (a virus etc)

to waste one's life; to fail to make the most of one's life

to revitalize (assets, resources etc)

to work as amateur for no pay

unskilled labor; heavy manual work

Notopterygium root (root of Notopterygium incisum)

trick; deception

bitter work; sweated labor

heavy work

(Beijing dialect) done; finished; complete

physical labor